Booklists and resources about annual observances/holidays, special events, social justice, and more. We've covered a wide range of topics for all age levels in 2025, so we've compiled them together for readers to find some great new books to enjoy and share. Don't miss out — subscribe to The Horn Book today!

2025 Booklists and Resources:

• Books for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Happy World Read Aloud Day
• Happy Lunar New Year!
• Black History Month 2025
• Happy Tu Bishvat! by Shoshana Flax
• Books by young people for young people by Niharika Prabhakar
• Ramadan
• International Women's Day
• Auspicious occasions by Shoshana Flax
• Pi Day 2025
• Céad míle fáilte!
• Blustery days by Monica de los Reyes
• Baseball and unicorns by Elissa Gershowitz
• Women's History Month
  • Week 1
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
• Transgender Day of Visibility
• World Autism Awareness Day
• G-O-T T-O G-O, It's Almost Passover! by Shoshana Flax
• National Siblings Day by Elissa Gershowitz
• Patriots' Day and School Vacation Week by Elissa Gershowitz
• Earth Day 2025: Our Power, Our Planet
• Reading for Holocaust Remembrance Day
• International Dance Day
• Día 2025
• International Jazz Day
• May Day
• Cinco de Mayo
• Teacher Appreciation 2025
• Mother's Day 2025 by Elissa Gershowitz
• Jewish American Heritage Month
• Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
• Manga roundup by Hannah Peterson
• Father's Day 2025 by Cynthia K. Ritter
• Celebrate Juneteenth
• Books for World Refugee Day
• Pride Month 2025
• National Hispanic Heritage Latinx Heritage Month 2025
• Shana tovah! 2025 / 5786 by Shoshana Flax
• Banned Books Week 2025
• Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025
• Reading for Diwali
• Transgender Awareness Week
• Native American Heritage Month
• Fanfare 2025 extras

Notes from the Horn Book newsletter booklists:

January 2025

• Five questions for Jason Reynolds
• If you LOVE love stories...
• New year, new stories
• Black excellence
• From the Editor

February 2025

• Five questions for Amy Cherrix
• Real science
• Female-focused fiction
• Need a good laugh?
• From the Editor

March 2025

• Five questions for Cheryl Willis Hudson and London Ladd
• Engaging with the arts
• Poetically told
• (Re)Visiting the past
• From the Editor

April 2025: Summer Reading Edition

• Five questions for Brian Selznick
• Picture Books
• Beginning Readers and Primary Grades
• Intermediate
• Middle School
• High School
• From the Editor

May 2025

• Five questions for Rebecca Stead and Gracey Zhang
• Parents and children
• Drawing on memories
• Otherworldly forces
• From the Editor

June 2025

• Five questions for E. K. Johnston
• Future worlds
• Creatures featured
• No one's BOULDER than you!
• From the Editor

July 2025: Back-to-School Edition

• Five questions for Ibi Zoboi and Juanita Londoño
• Learning from each other
• Learning visually
• Learning from the past
• From the Editor

August 2025

• Five questions for Michelle Cusolito and Jessica Lanan
• In and around the sea
• All summer long
• Page-turning "paperweights"
• From the Editor

September 2025

• Five questions for Stephanie Graegin
• Reading: the fun starts here
• School stories
• National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month
• From the Editor

October 2025

• Five questions for Julie Berry
• Mythical and magical
• Good sports
• Where Mother Nature and human nature meet
• From the Editor

November 2025

• Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz
• Our world meets fantasy
• Families affected by history
• Space adventures
• From the Editor

December 2025: Fanfare Edition

• From the Editor
• Picture Books
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Nonfiction

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