World Hand Hygiene Day takes place on May 05, 2020. The day is declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) and encoures patients and their family members to join health workers in their efforts to practice good hand hygiene. According to WHO, every year, hundreds of millions of patients around the world are affected by health care-associated infections. More than half of these infections could be prevented by caregivers properly cleaning their hands at key moments in patient care. 
October 15th is Global Handwashing Day! This year, the Global Handwashing Day theme focuses on the links between handwashing and food including food hygiene and nutrition. Handwashing is an important part of keeping food safe, preventing diseases, and helping children grow strong. Global Handwashing Day is an international handwashing promotion campaign to motivate and mobilise people around the world to improve their handwashing habits. Washing hands at critical points during the day and washing with soap are both important.
Neither of these days are for quite a while yet, but I feel as if I spent a large part of today locating books in the library that would help teachers have a conversation with their students about why it is important to wash their hands well and often. As schools prepare for the impact of Covid 19 the conversations are also turning to germs and what they do. A prep student actually asked me yesterday for a book on viruses. I don't think he was panicked, but rather, curious.
So now I have a list of books for the teachers and parents and have put these books on display. See:
• Wash Your Hands by Margaret McNamara and Mike Gordon (one of the Robin Hill School readers)
• I Don't Want to Wash My Hands! by Tony Ross (one of the Little Princess titles)
• Germs are not For Sharing by Elizabeth Verdick and Marieka Heinlen
• Germs Make Me Sick! by Melvin Berger and Marylin Hafner
• Germs by Ross Collins
• Sam's Science: I Know How to Fight Germs by Kate Rowan and Katharine McEwen
• The Giant Book of Germs by Lorna Hendry
How wonderful - this is such a timely post. The teachers in your school are so very very lucky to have such a wonderful library and an amazing Teacher-Librarian. Who would have ever guessed there would be so many books on this topic to share with young children.
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