Right to Read Day 2025: Get Inspired, Get Involved, Get "Drawn to Freedom"!

Unite Against Book Bans invites artists and library supporters from around the country to participate by creating and sharing drawings that celebrate the freedoms found in libraries. Here’s how you can take action!

Let Us Know You’ll Participate

As soon as possible, please pledge your participation on Right to Read Day. Complete this short form to let us know we can count on you. Indicate whether the Right to Read Day campaign team may contact you about additional opportunities to collaborate and highlight your artwork, poetry, or other contribution. Note that professional illustrators, artists, and other creators may request acknowledgement of their submission as an in-kind donation to Unite Against Book Bans; see the participation form for details. 

Reflect on Library Freedoms

Take a few moments to reflect on the freedoms that America’s libraries offer and protect. In your life, what has the freedom to read, learn, and think for yourself meant? What does having these freedoms mean for your future, and what would it mean for these freedoms to be eroded or lost?  

For many people, libraries offer more than access to information and ideas. They stand for additional freedoms that aren’t fundamental to other spaces, including the right to privacy and the simple freedom to openly ask questions and be yourself. Why are these freedoms important to you? Do you think they’re important to democracy?

As you reflect on these freedoms, consider why some people might want to take away these freedoms by removing books from the shelves, gathering data about what people are reading, or tracking what people are searching for online. Are library freedoms worth fighting for?  

Create Your Artwork

After reflection, create a drawing that expresses your thoughts and emotions. If you’re more comfortable in another artistic format, like poetry, painting, collage, ceramics, or something else, go with that!

Tag and Share on Social Media

When you’re done with your drawing or other creation, take a photo or video and share it with others on social media. To help build interest and awareness, please use the hashtags #RightToReadDay and #DrawnToFreedom in your posts and tag the following social media accounts so we can react and repost:

Bluesky: @UABookBans

Instagram: @UniteAgainstBookBans

Facebook: @UniteAgainstBookBans

Below are sample messages to use in your post or to provide inspiration.

• Happy #NationalLibraryWeek! Today is #RightToReadDay and this year’s theme is #DrawnToFreedom —because when libraries are under attack, so is our FREEDOM. Libraries offer a place for everyone to read, learn, and think for themselves. They protect each reader’s right to privacy. This image expresses why I’m #DrawnToFreedom and value the freedoms that libraries provide and protect. Join me by creating and sharing your own!  
• Today is #RightToReadDay and the theme is #DrawnToFreedom. I created this [drawing] to express my support for librarians, libraries, and the freedoms they provide and protect. Join me by sharing your own and pledging to #UniteAgainstBookBans during #NationalLibraryWeek and beyond.