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Día Storytime in Santa Barbara today

Santa Barbara families, please join Pat Mora on Saturday at the Central Library, 11 a.m., for a Día Storytime with music, crafts, face painting and free books!

For anyone planning their own Día Storytime, download these helpful resources from our Día Planning Booklet:

Families As Children’s Day, Book Day Partners
Children’s Day, Book Day Literacy Games
See the complete Día Planning Booklet

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Arbuthnot Lecture: Bookjoy! Alegria en los Libros!

I have so been looking forward to delivering the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture this evening in Santa Barbara. I feel very honored and am deeply grateful to the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) and to the committee. I’ll be discussing one of my favorite topics: reading.

We are halfway through Díapalooza, daily postings about Día. Many thanks to Bobbie Combs for her creative work!

I hope you are enjoying creatively celebrating children and linking them to bookjoy this Día month.
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Two chances to share and learn about Día today

Some of Día’s partners have been busy putting together resources for Día planners. Today there are two great opportunities to learn:

Thursday, April 14th at 4pm EST
Lee & Low Books is co-hosting a free Día webinar, “Celebrating Día at School,” with Spanish Playground, the American Immigration Council and Mommy Maestra. Panelists will offer examples and strategies they’ve used to promote multiculturalism and inclusion through books and storytelling techniques to celebrate Día every day. There’...

Celebrating Día’s Milestones

As we celebrate Día’s 20th anniversary throughout April, it’s fun to look back on past celebrations!

10th Anniversary

ALSC President Ellen Fader, Pat Mora, and REFORMA Operational Coordinator for Día, Oralia Garza de Cortes celebrate Día’s 10th anniversary with cake at the Texas Library Association conference in San Antonio. 15th Anniversary

Lucia Gonzalez, Jeanette Larson, Pat Mora, Cynthia Richey, and Oralia Garza de Cortes celebrate Día’s 15th anniversary (again, with cake!) at the an...

Yea for Día’s amazing librarian friends

Celebrate National Library Week 2016 (April 10-16) with the theme “Libraries Transform.” April 12 is also National Library Workers Day. Librarians, need programming I-Dias? Find them here.

This is the perfect week to thank The Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), one of Día’s treasured partners. On their Día website, they have a national Día Registry where libraries can share their celebrations; a resource section with acti...

Día celebrations far and wide, large and small

We’re excited to share these upcoming Día celebrations! Some are large and long-running, others are smaller and only a few years old: all are welcome. Your participation doesn’t have to be large or complicated. Why not start with a simple Día story time and watch it grow?

Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
The 2002 winner of the Mora Award is offering a simple celebration featuring books, music, crafts and special activities on three April Saturdays.

Orange City Public Library, Orange Ci...

Celebrate Día’s youngest readers this week

April 10-16 is The Week of the Young Child, an annual celebration hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) celebrating early learning, young children, their teachers and families.

To help you celebrate young readers, our Día Planning Booklet has a great list of children’s books about sharing bookjoy, and the NAEYC website has a wonderful Activity Resources page that includes ideas for parents, teachers and others, like Eight Tips for Creating Homemade Bo...

Free Webinar: Celebrating Día at School

On Thursday, April 14 at 4 pm EST, Día partner Lee & Low Books is hosting a free Día webinar, co-sponsored with Spanish Playground, the American Immigration Council and Register...

Día in the Lone Star state

Texas librarians have been leading and sharing Día celebrations for 20 years! Here are a few of this year’s events.

Brownsville School District
Administration, teachers and parents from thirty-seven elementary schools have collaborated to present Brownsville’s third Día celebration, focusing on Early Childhood. Activities include music, poetry, videos, school presentation and technology and culminate with a book giveaway on April 30. Author Rene Saldana, Jr. and illustrator Carolyn D. Flores...

Gracias to some special Día partners

Pat Mora was inspired to create Día by the Mexican tradition of celebrating April 30th as El día del niño. Even though Día has now expanded to be a year-long commitment to linking ALL children and families to books, we’d like to thank some of our Día partners who have a special mission to reach Latinos.

REFORMA
REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, was Día’s first organizational partner. Hard-working REFORMA Presiden...