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Children's Book Week (twice a year, in May and November) originated in the belief that children's books and literacy are life-changers. In 1913, Franklin K. Matthews, the librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, began touring the country to promote higher standards in children's books, and he proposed creating a Children's Book Week.
Mathews enlisted two critical allies: Frederic G. Melcher, the visionary editor of Publishers Weekly, and Anne Carroll Moore, the Superintendent of Children's Works at the New York Public Library and a significant figure in the library world. With the help of Melcher and Moore, in 1916, the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association sponsored a Good Book Week with the Boy Scouts of America.
In 1944, the newly-established Children's Book Council assumed responsibility for administering Children's Book Week.
Children's Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Commemorative events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, and homes—wherever young readers and books connect!
Children's Book Week is administered by Every Child A Reader, a 501(c)(3) literacy organization dedicated to instilling in children a lifelong love of reading. The Children's Book Council, the national non-profit trade association for children's book publishers, is an anchor sponsor.