There are a lot of holidays in October to celebrate! I’ve listed my resources below each celebration.
Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week is October 5-11, 2025
22 Banned Asian American Children’s Books #fREADomToRead
Top 10 Must-Read Banned Books for Kids
Top 10: Challenged or Banned Books
12 Banned Books in New England #fREADomToRead
My Ten Books Recs for Banned Book Week September 23-29
10 Books to Read for Banned Book Week
20 Banned or Challenged Books to READ!
National Taco Day
Taco Tuesday, October 7, 2025
The Traveling Taco gets a SONG!
The Traveling Taco book trailer!
Indigenous Peoples’ Day | Native American Day | Discoverers’ Day
Monday, October 13, 2025
5 Children’s Books for Indigenous Peoples Day
Native American Heritage Month Resources
Andrew Jackson Murdered His Native American General: Things They Don’t Teach You in History Books
Halloween & Dia de los Muertos
Dia de los Muertos is celebrated on October 31, November 1 and 2, and sometimes November 6
5 Children’s Books to Celebrate Halloween & Día de los Muertos
Halloween Multicultural Children’s Book Club
5 Great Halloween Picture Books
7 Children’s Books for Halloween
Filipino American History Month
68 Filipino-American Children’s Books
My Kids Try Filipino Food in Chicago!
Italian-American Heritage Month
8 Great Books for Kids for Italian American Heritage Month
Polish American Heritage Month
26 Children’s Books About Poland
LGBT History Month
28 LGBTQ+ Books for Kids to Understand Transgender
National Bullying Prevention Month
Top 10 Multicultural Picture Books on Bullying
Girl Bullying: The Hundred Dresses by Estes (grades 3-5th)
FREE Resources on Bullying, IEPs, Dyslexia and More
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
My mother died of breast cancer, so this is personal for me.
31 Books About Cancer For Kids and Teens
Have You Heard About Inflammatory Breast Cancer?
Rose Wenjen Eulogy by Noreen Wenjen
My mother, Rose Wenjen, passed away today…
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Domestic Violence Books for Kids
8 Children’s Books About Domestic Violence
9 Books for Teens about Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
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My books:
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The Traveling Taco:
- Reading Rockets’ Summer Reading Guide 2025
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- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
- ALSC Notable Children’s Book
- 2025 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Middle Level Honoree
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- 2024 Julia Ward Howe Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal!
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Nautilus Silver Winner, Nonfiction Children’s Picture Book
- Sunshine State Young Readers Award Orange Blossom List for Nonfiction
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
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Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
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