Conferences, conventions, workshops, and meetings about the business and craft of writing, illustrating, and publishing children's books take place year round throughout the world. The following are a few links to large scale events sponsored by other organizations.

2008 Events

DATE	ORGANIZATION/EVENT	LOCATION
October 1 - 31	US National Book Month	US
October 6 - 12	UK National Book Week	UK
October 15 - 19	Frankfurt Book Fair	Frankfurt, Germany
October 3 - 5	US National Storytelling Festival	Jonesborough, TN
October 11 - 15	Joint Conference of Librarians of Color	Dallas, TX
October 17 - 19	American Association of School Librarians Fall Forum	Oak Brook, IL
October 12 - 14	Los Angeles Latino Book & Family Festival	Los Angeles, CA
October 12 - 18	US Teen Read Week	US
October 21 - 26	Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival	Vancouver, BC, Canada
October 25 - 27	5th Annual International Conference on the Book	Washington, DC
October 24 - 26	Surrey International Writers' Conference	Surrey, BC, Canada
October 27	International Association of School Librarianship International School Library Day	Worldwide
November 1	Children's Literature Festival	Keene, NH
November 1	US National Family Literacy Day	US
November 1	Multicultural Children's Book Festival	Washington, DC
November 10 - 11	Chicago Latino Book & Family Festival	Chicago, IL
November 8 - 9	Connecticut Children's Book Fair	Storrs, CT
November10 - 19	27th Feria Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juvenil	Mexico City, Mexico
May 12 - 18	US National Children's Book Week "More Books, Please!"	US
November 11	US National Young Reader's Day	US
November 20 - 23	US National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention	San Antonio, TX
November 19	9th Annual Jewish Children's Book Writer's Conference	New York, NY
November 29 - December 7	Feria del Libro	Guadalajara, Mexico

 
2009 Events

DATE	ORGANIZATION/EVENT	LOCATION
January 29 - 28	American Library Association Midwinter Meeting	Denver, CO
January 29 - February 1	American Booksellers Association 3rd Annual Winter Institute	Salt Lake City, UT
February 18 - 20	Guatemalan Reading Association (with the IRA) 6th International Literacy Conference	Guatemala City, Guatemala
April 1 - 30	US National Poetry Month	US
April 12 - 18	US National Library Week	US
April 20 - 22	London Book Fair	London, UK
TBA	Illustrator & Author/Illustrator Conference (at the Society of Illustrators)	New York, NY
TBA	Bologna Children's Book Fair	Bologna, Italy
TBA	Los Angeles Times Festival of Books	Los Angeles, CA
May 3 - 7	International Reading Association 53rd Annual Convention North Central	Minneapolis, MN
TBA	Australia Centre for Youth Literature Reading Matters Conference	Melbourne, VIC Australia
May 29 - June 1	BookExpo America	New York, NY
TBA	BookExpo Canada	Toronto, ON Canada
July 9 - 15	American Library Association Annual Conference	Chicago, IL
TBA	Tokyo International Book Fair	Tokyo, Japan
TBA	International Reading Association 16th European Conference on Reading	Berlin, Germany
TBA	Australia Children's Book Week "READiscover"	Australia
November 4 - 8	American Association of School Librarians 14th National Conference & Exhibition	Charlotte, NC
November 12 - 18	US National Children's Book Week	US