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Promoting International Children’s Book Day
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, January 2009
- pp. 35-39
- 10.1353/bkb.0.0118
- Article
- Additional Information
International Children’s Book Day is celebrated each year on (or around) Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2 April, to call attention to children’s books and inspire a love of reading in children all over the world. Niklas Bengtsson traces the history of ICBD and comes up with some ideas to help national sections to promote ICBD in their own countries