Every year in March (and October for children) there are ten days where books are promoted and celebrated in the Netherlands. This year it's the 90th year that it gets celebrated. The theme of this year is about your mother tongue, whether it's about a dialect of Dutch or a different language from abroad.
Every year there is a writer that creates a short story specifically for the book week and you get it for free when you spend a certain amount on Dutch books in that particular week. There is a book prom that "opens" the book week. The children's version of book prom also announce the winner of an book award.
Are there any other countries that organize some sort of book celebration/promotion thing? If not, should there be?
by Ok-World-4822
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Sweden has a huge book fair every year. It looks awesome.
The UK has World Book Day on the first Thursday of March. There’s usually a bunch of short new books for a pound, and often schoolchildren get a voucher for a free book.
As far as I can tell the USA does not. On more local level cities and states might, like Chicago’s [One Book, One Chicago](https://www.chipublib.org/one-book-one-chicago/) program which promotes the entire city reading the same book.
Australia does. Its a big thing for kids
Hell in my country I wouldn’t be surprised if the annoying orange and his nazi lover with the weird physique ends up having a week dedicated to burning books 🙁