Celebrate reading and encourage a love of books

I strongly believe that all kids should be given the opportunity to explore books. Reading is a powerful skill that allows kids to gain knowledge, stimulate their imagination and helps them to deal with their emotions. Reading is also fun. I read to my little ones everyday and they both love books. Cuddling up for story time is quality family time.

World Book Day takes place on 1st March and is a great way to share the love of books with your kids.

What is World Book Day?

World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

This is the 15th year there’s been a World Book Day, and on 1st March children of all ages will come together to appreciate reading. Very loudly and very happily. The main aim of World Book Day in the UK and Ireland is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own. That’s why we will be sending schools (including those nurseries and secondary schools that have specially registered to participate), packs of Book Tokens and age-ranged World Book Day Resource Packs (age-ranged into Nursery/Pre-School, Primary and Secondary) full of ideas and activities, display material and more information about how to get involved in World Book Day.

What happens?

Thanks to the generosity of National Book Tokens Ltd, publishers and booksellers, we can send millions of book vouchers to children and young people (more than 14 million, in fact: that’s one for nearly every child aged under eighteen in the country).

Then…

They can take their voucher to a local bookseller and can use it to pick one of EIGHT (exclusive, new and completely free) books. Or, if they’d rather, they can use it to get £1 off any book or audio book costing over £2.99 at a participating bookshop or book club (terms and conditions apply).

How can you get involved?

You can download the new packs here (nursery, primary andsecondary). And please visit our Resources section which is full of exciting and fun new resources based on your favourite books, brands, characters and authors.

It’s all about getting kids closer to the books and authors they already love, and letting them discover more books and authors they’ll love every bit as much in the future.

Contact Us

If you’ve got any questions, problems, ideas or anything to share, whether it’s about your World Book Day book tokens, resources, display materials or anything else, the World Book Day Helpline is only a phonecall or an email (or even a fax) away. Please get in touch.

Email wbd@education.co.uk

Phone 01634 729810

Fax 01634 290175