At first when I heard it was World Book Day BEFORE normal services resumed for Schools I was beside myself! No trying to put a fancy dress outfit together at the last minute, or having to shape a potato into Mog the Cat! But then I get an email from school and got told we could still participate at home! And then it dawned on me that actually this will be a really fun thing to do this year – something different from the normal day of home learning! So we are pleased to say, we are going ALL IN!
Apart from stressing over the fancy dress for weeks, the main purpose of World Book Day is to provide every child and young person in the country with a book of their own.
Over 15 million £1 World Book Day book tokens will be given to children and young people across the UK and Ireland on World Book Day! All you have to do is take your voucher to your local bookshop and swap it for one of the TWELVE exclusive, new and completely free World Book Day books. If you have another favourite in mind, you can use your token to get £1 off any full price book instead.
As a lot of children aren’t at school due to lockdown, we have the download option of the token available here:
World Book Day have some live events happening on their website and YouTube channel at 10:30am between 3rd and 5th March
Wednesday 3rd March, 10.30am – Books that Make you LOL!
Starring: Humza Arshad, Alex Bellos & Ben Lyttleton (Football School), Jonny Duddle and Zanib Mian
Hosted by Kenny Baraka, motivational speaker
Thursday 4th March, 10.30am – World Book Day special – Bringing Reading to Life
Starring: Joseph Coelho & Fiona Lumbers, Tom Fletcher and Lydia Monks and special guest Rob Biddulph
Hosted by Nigel Clarke, TV presenter
Friday 5th March, 10.30am – Books and the Real World
Starring: Sita Brahmachari, Jess French and Katherine Rundell
Hosted by Jessie Cave, actor and podcaster
World Book Day have some great stories you can discover divided by age group (see below) and also themes such as animals, poetry, tales of adventure or books that make you laugh out loud which are divided into beginner, early, fluent & independent readers(click here)
Enjoy, I’m off to make a very hungry caterpillar!
