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 Health History Math Music Physical Education 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 October 2026 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 International Day of Older Persons Julie Andrews Edwards's Birthday TeenTober More... 2 David Diaz's Birthday International Day of Non-Violence Sukkoth More... 3 National Bullying Prevention Month 4 Donald J. Sobol's Birthday Karen Cushman's Birthday National Hispanic Heritage Month More... 5 David Shannon's Birthday World Habitat Day World Teachers' Day 6 Fannie Lou Hamer's Birthday Jeanette Winter's Birthday Lonnie Johnson's Birthday More... 7 Banned Books Week Fire Prevention Week Domestic Violence Awareness Month More... 8 Faith Ringgold's Birthday R.L. Stine's Birthday LGBT History Month More... 9 Leif Erikson Day World Post Day 10 Home Fire Drill Day James Marshall's Birthday World Mental Health Day 11 International Day of the Girl Child National Coming Out Day Russell Freedman's Birthday 12 Indigenous Peoples' Day Thanksgiving (Canada) Italian American Heritage Month More... 13 Ada Lovelace Day International Day for Disaster Reduction 14 National Fossil Day e.e. cummings's Birthday 15 International Day of Rural Women 16 Peter McCarty's Birthday World Food Day 17 Christopher Myers's Birthday International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Invisible Disabilities Week More... 18 Eugene Yelchin's Birthday Learning Disabilities Awareness Month 19 Ed Emberley's Birthday Philip Pullman's Birthday 20 Nikki Grimes's Birthday 21 Celia Cruz's Birthday Ursula K. LeGuin's Birthday 22 National Nut Day 23 Laurie Halse Anderson's Birthday Pele's Birthday 24 Chuseok Monica Brown's Birthday Dyslexia Awareness Month More... 25 Filipino American History Month 26 Eric Rohmann's Birthday Hillary Clinton's Birthday Steven Kellogg's Birthday 27 Joseph Medicine Crow's Birthday 28 1886 Dedication of the Statue of Liberty Anniversary 29 National Cat Day 30 Anniversary of the Debut of APPALACHIAN SPRING Saxton Freymann's Birthday 31 Halloween Katherine Paterson's Birthday Day of the Dead More... Embed this Literary Calendar on your website
