EUROPEAN AUTHORS DAY 11.11-12.12.2025

For Parents

Dear Parents and Caregivers! Celebrate with us. Organize an authors’ meeting, a reading workshop, a read-aloud at your school, kindergarten, library, or – why not – at your workplace, during 11th November – 12th December to celebrate the #EuropeanAuthorsDay #ReadForReal.

Download and have fun

Enjoy the free downloads.

Download and post on your social media around

#EuropeanAuthorsDay #ReadForReal show what you are reading and what you are reading with your child, which Author you admire.

Creativity is the rule

Search for a #EuropeanAuthorsDay #ReadForReal event in your city, participate, bring your family and neighbours!

You live in a small community with no action-related events? Nothing lost, invite your closest neighbours, get inspired by the scenarios proposed and just act!

Sitting at home with a cold child? Bring the fun inside. Download our lesson plans tailored to your child’s age and have a writing workshop … or simply read together!

You can create jigsaw puzzles (all you need is a printer – print out our materials and cut the pictures into pieces like a jigsaw puzzle).

Good habit

Try to form, from a young age a good habit of reading and talking together, which becomes a pleasure and turns into shared laughter and a deep relationship. It’s actually quite simple:

  1. Read every day.
  2. Start as early as possible.
  3. A few minutes a day to start with is enough.
  4. Let your child turn the pages.
  5. Read the same stories over and over again.
  6. Read with engagement.
  7. Ask your child questions.
  8. Remember to give books as gifts.
  9. Read wherever and whenever.
  10. Take Your child to the library.

You don’t have to be a real professional. Just Read. For real.

Find out more about why reading is important:

OPen invitation

The invitation is open, anyone can join. Fill in the registration form at the bottom of this webpage.

We’ll be sharing inspiring photos, personal stories, and key updates on our social media – stay tuned and be sure to follow us on:

Share what you read with us, tag read.forreal, so that we can like your posts. Use the following hashtags

#EuropeanAuthorsDay

#ReadForReal

#ReadForEurope

#ReadWithEurope

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