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 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 May 2026 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 Law Day Canadian Children's Book Week 2 World Tuna Day Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 3 Pete Seeger's Birthday World Press Freedom Day 4 Preservation Week Teacher Appreciation Week Latino Books Month More... 5 Cinco de Mayo Leo Lionni's Birthday Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day More... 6 Barbara McClintock's Birthday Floyd Cooper Day Children's Book Week More... 7 Nonny Hogrogian's Birthday 8 WWII Rememberance Day 9 National Teacher Day 10 Christopher Paul Curtis's Birthday Mother's Day Oliver Jeffers's Birthday More... 11 Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Birthday 12 Betsy Lewin's Birthday 13 National Mining Week (Canada) Jewish American Heritage Month 14 Eoin Colfer's Birthday Hmong American Day 15 David Almond's Birthday International Day of Families Nancy Garden's Birthday 16 Adam Rex's Birthday Bruce Coville's Birthday Graciela Iturbide's Birthday 17 Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education ruling Gary Paulsen's Birthday Grace Lin's Birthday More... 18 Sarah Ellis's Birthday 19 Arthur Dorros's Birthday Malcolm X's Birthday National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month More... 20 Dan Yaccarino's Birthday Mary Pope Osborne's Birthday 21 World Cultural Diversity Day 22 Arnold Lobel's Birthday International Biodiversity Day 23 Elmer Day Margaret Wise Brown's Birthday Scott O'Dell's Birthday More... 24 Candace Fleming's Birthday Zombie Awareness Month 25 Bill Robinson's Birthday Joyce Carol Thomas's Birthday Memorial Day 26 National Physical Fitness and Sports Month 27 Eid al-Adha Mental Health Awareness Month 28 Jim Thorpe's Birthday Menstrual Hygiene Day 29 National Bike Month 30 Anniversary of the First All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Game 31 Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre National AccessAbility Week (Canada) Embed this Literary Calendar on your website
