Share Filter Results Filter Results Event Duration Day Week Month Event Type Curricular Holiday Birthday Grade Level PK-2 1-5 4-8 7-12 Curricular Area Art English Language Arts French Health History Music STEAM Science Social Studies Spanish Genre Adventure Biography Fairy Tales / Folklore Historical Fiction Holiday Humor Nonfiction Poetry Realistic Fiction Science Fiction / Fantasy Cultural Area African American Disability Latinx South Asian Women / Girls Literary Calendar January 2021 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 7 Victory Over Genocide Day (Cambodia) Zora Neale Hurston's Birthday 8 National Train Your Dog Month 9 10 11 12 Charles Perrault's Birthday Jack London's Birthday 13 Michael Bond's Birthday Theodore Taylor, III's Birthday 14 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 More... 18 A.A. Milne's Birthday Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Peter Roget's Birthday 19 Pat Mora's Birthday No Name-Calling Week 20 Inauguration Day (US) Juan García Esquivel's Birthday Tedd Arnold's Birthday 21 National Mentoring 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 Elizabeth Coleman's Birthday Jules Feiffer's Birthday More... 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Julius Lester's Birthday Lewis Carroll's Birthday 28 Ann Jonas's Birthday Data Privacy Day Tu Bishvat More... 29 Multicultural Children's Book Day Rosemary Wells's Birthday 30 Anniversary of the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff Lloyd Alexander's Birthday Polly Horvath's Birthday 31 Bryan Collier's Birthday Denise Fleming's Birthday Embed this Literary Calendar on your website