September is
National Library Card Sign Up Month. Get ready for a lifetime of adventure and Get Your Library Card [1] Here! (visit your local library for more information).
National Piano Month. Check out some music [2] or a book about playing piano [3]!
Children's Good Manners Month. Practice good manners [4] this month with your new teachers and schoolmates, or at home.
Word of the month: Serendipity. The ability to accidentally make happy, unexpected discoveries. When Margaret went for a walk, she had the serendipity to find a four-leaf clover.
September 4 Syd Hoff [5], author of Danny the Dinosaur and more, was born in 1912
September 9 It's National Grandparents Day. Invite your grandparents [6] to the library for the day, or write them a card.
September 13 Roald Dahl [7], author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and James and the Giant Peach, was born in 1916.
September 15 Tomie DePaola [8], author and illustrator of over 200 children's books is born in 1934
September 16 It's H.A. Rey's [9] birthday. Have a Curious George [10] day and be curious.
September 22 Autumn [11] Begins! Today is also Elephant [12] Appreciation Day and Hobbit Day. Use the What Tree is It? [13] website to identify leaves found on a nature walk!
September 25 It's Shel Silverstein's [14] birthday. Paint a picture from Where the Sidewalk Ends [15] or another favorite poem [16]!
September 26 John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed [17], was born in 1775. Check out the Johnny Appleseed Festival [18] Sept. 15-16 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.