Share Filter Results Filter Results Event Duration Day Week Month Event Type Curricular Holiday Birthday Grade Level PK-K 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-12 Curricular Area Art English Language Arts French Health History Music STEAM Science Social Studies Spanish Genre Adventure Beginning / Early Reader Biography Concept Book Alphabet Color Number Season Shape Drama Fairy Tales / Folklore Graphic Novel Historical Fiction Holiday Horror Humor Mystery Nonfiction Picture Book Poetry Realistic Fiction Romance Science Fiction / Fantasy Sports Cultural Experience Any Cultural Experience African (Global) African African American American Indian Asian (Global) Asian Asian American South Asian Disability Gender Women / Girls Transgender / Non-Conforming Men / Boys Immigrant / Refugee Jewish Latino/a/e/x (Global) Latino (US / Canada) Latino (Latin America) LGBTQ+ Middle Eastern Multiracial / Mixed Race Muslim Pacific Islander / Oceania Literary Calendar January 2026 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Gary D. Schmidt's Birthday Kwanzaa More... 2 Jean Little's Birthday Troy Andrews' Birthday 3 J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday 4 Jacob Grimm's Birthday Louis Braille's Birthday Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Birthday 5 Lynne Cherry's Birthday 6 Three Kings' Day 7 Victory Over Genocide Day (Cambodia) Zora Neale Hurston's Birthday 8 Earth's Rotation Day 9 National Mentoring Month 10 Anniversary of the Publication of Common Sense 11 Alexander Hamilton's Birthday National Human Trafficking Awareness Day 12 Charles Perrault's Birthday Jack London's Birthday 13 Michael Bond's Birthday Theodore Taylor, III's Birthday 14 Pongal National Train Your Dog Month 15 Dianne de Las Casas's Birthday 16 Kate McMullan's Birthday Rebecca Stead's Birthday 17 Janet Stevens's Birthday Raoul Wallenberg Day Robert Cormier's Birthday 18 A.A. Milne's Birthday Peter Roget's Birthday World Religion Day 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Pat Mora's Birthday 20 Juan García Esquivel's Birthday Tedd Arnold's Birthday 21 National Poverty in America Awareness Month 22 Rafe Martin's Birthday 23 Anniversary of Elizabeth Blackwell's Medical Degree 24 International Day of Education 25 Florence Mills' Birthday 26 Ashley Wolff's Birthday Australia Day Elizabeth Coleman's Birthday More... 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Julius Lester's Birthday Lewis Carroll's Birthday 28 Ann Jonas's Birthday Data Privacy Day Vera B. Williams's Birthday 29 Rosemary Wells's Birthday 30 Anniversary of the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff Lloyd Alexander's Birthday Multicultural Children's Book Day More... 31 Bryan Collier's Birthday Denise Fleming's Birthday Embed this Literary Calendar on your website
