World Book Day 2007

Thursday 1 March 2007

World Book Day celebrates its tenth birthday this year across UK and Ireland, and is now established as the biggest annual event promoting the enjoyment of books and reading.

World Book Day's core activity continues this year - distributing School Packs to children in schools and pre-schools. The packs include display material and World Book Day £1 or €1.50 book tokens. To mark its tenth anniversary, ten specially created £1 Books will offer a great reading choice to pupils.

To celebrate and to encourage adults to participate, World Book Day is looking for the Ten Books You Can’t Live Without, inviting the public to visit the website and list their essential top ten reads.

World Book Day aims to get those of us who have lost their passion for reading, or have never acquired one, to pick up a book again. A new range of Quick Reads titles will be published to coincide with World Book Day, including books by Kerry Katona, John Simpson, Ricky Tomlinson and a brand new Doctor Who book.

Bookshops around the UK and Ireland will be collecting donated books, and for every ten books donated, they will add another to give to local hospitals or other care settings around the time of World Book Day.

Look out for the display material in your local bookshop, or check the World Book Day participants list on their website to find out where you can go to choose a book and give your gift to a worthwhile cause.

What's on?

Parents are invited to a World Book Day Parade where pupils and staff will dress up as their favourite book characters at St Joseph's RC Primary School in Edinburgh.  Hill of Beath Primary School in Fife are holding a Book Sale on World Book Day and parents, children and teachers will also be interviewed on the school radio station about their favourite books.

For more information please visit the World Book Day website.