Sukkot
Check out our books about and stories of Sukkot, including my favorite, Patricia Polacco’s Tikvah Means Hope. This beautiful picture book recounts the story of a sukkah and a cat named Tikvah that survived the Oakland Hills firestorm in 1991.

Black Poetry Day – October 17
We have a new biography of Langston Hughes by Alice Walker and books by Nicki Grimes and Nicki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, James Weldon Johnson as well as wonderful collections like Pass It On and Ashley Bryant's ABC of African-American Poetry.

October birthdays include:
Molly Cone
Karen Cushman
Donald Sobol
Faith Ringold
Johanna Hurwitz
James Marshall
Joseph Brucac
Eric Kimmel
Katherine Paterson
Ursula LeGuin

Mystery, fantasy, historical and contemporary fiction, humor and folk tales--they're all represented by this month's birthday authors.