Children’s Book Week
Celebrate Children’s Book Week, May 4-10!
Children’s Book Week is a national week-long event that celebrates books for young readers. 2026 is the 107th anniversary of this beloved program, and this year’s event slogan is Books: Get Curious. This slogan celebrates all the ways that the stories we read, share, and tell encourage and quench the curiosity inherent in every child. Come into Stillwater County Library for activities all week long. You can also celebrate using all the amazing free resources at EveryChildaReader.net. Follow #BooksGetCurious online for more.
The official 2026 Children’s Book Week poster was created by Grace Lin, a visual and narrative storyteller of the highest caliber. Lauded by readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and the wider children’s book community, Lin’s work is magical and connective.
GRACE’S INSIGHT INTO THIS YEAR’S POSTER
Grace Lin said, “I’m so thrilled and honored to be the illustrator of this year’s Children’s Book Week poster. I remember in art school looking at some of the old posters by Trina Schart Hyman, Richard Scarry, Ezra Jack Keats . . . it’s humbling to think that I get to continue that tradition.”
“This year’s theme is Books: Get Curious. The good people at Every Child a Reader sent a couple of options, but ‘Get Curious’ immediately resonated,” said Lin. “I feel that kids need curiosity—interest in life, people, the world, and beyond—in order to flourish. But we are living in a time where there is a segment of the population that is trying to curtail that curiosity with book banning and unnecessary restrictions. Right now, curiosity, with all its joy and wonder, needs protection.”
“That’s why I decided to feature a Chinese stone lion in the poster. In Chinese culture, the lion is a protector, and the lion with cub (as shown here), in particular, is the guardian of a thriving future. The composition of the poster—the framing with the stacks of books on either side—is also a motif of protection, emulating the way many Asian people hang banners around doors at Lunar New Year. Those banners are placed around the entryways to ward off any bad luck as well as welcome in the good. In this image, the books not only make the entryway to curiosity but, like the lion, protect it.”