Children’s Book Week

Children’s book week has become so popular that it is now celebrated twice a year. Initially it was organized by the librarian of the Boy Scouts of America. Eventually two others became a part of the initiative: the editor of Publishers Weekly, Frederic G. Melcher, and the Superintendent of Children’s Works at the New York Public Library, Anne Carroll Moore. Melcher believed that “a great nation is a reading nation,” Moore, was a major figure in the library world. At that point, the week grew and was eventually taken over by the Children’s Book Council in 1944.