Portal:Children's literature/Selected anniversaries/July

• July – Carnegie Medal awarded to the best children's book published in the United Kingdom
• July 2000 – A children's literature section is created on The New York Times bestseller list as a result of the popularity of Harry Potter
• 6 July 1942 – Anne Frank, whose diary became a popular children's work, went into hiding
• 9 July 1713 – Baptism of John Newbery (work pictured), the first publisher to make children's literature in Britain successful
• 14 July 1890 – Death of Dhan Gopal Mukerji, whose book Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon won the Newbery Medal in 1928