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 Physical Education STEAM Science Social Studies Spanish Genre Adventure Beginning / Early Reader Biography Concept Book Drama Fairy Tales / Folklore Graphic Novel Historical Fiction Holiday Horror Humor Mystery Nonfiction Picture Book Poetry Realistic Fiction Science Fiction / Fantasy Sports 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 2021 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 Law Day 2 World Tuna Day Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 3 Pete Seeger's Birthday World Press Freedom Day Ramadan More... 4 Children's Book Week TD Canadian Children's Book 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 Ted Lewin's Birthday 7 Nonny Hogrogian's Birthday 8 WWII Rememberance Day 9 Mother's Day National Teacher Day 10 Christopher Paul Curtis's Birthday Oliver Jeffers's Birthday World Migratory Bird Day 11 Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Birthday 12 Betsy Lewin's Birthday 13 Eid al-Fitr 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 UN Global Road Safety Week 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 Margaret Wise Brown's Birthday Scott O'Dell's Birthday Susan Cooper's Birthday 24 Candace Fleming's Birthday 25 Bill Robinson's Birthday Joyce Carol Thomas's Birthday 26 Aboriginal Awareness Week National Physical Fitness and Sports Month 27 Mental Health Awareness Month 28 Jim Thorpe's Birthday Menstrual Hygiene Day 29 Elmer Day National Bike Month 30 Anniversary of the First All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Game 31 Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre Memorial Day Embed this Literary Calendar on your website
