World Book Day UK is coming soon!

World Book Day UK 2012 is on Thursday, 1st March. Its main aim 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. Look at the official site and it's related Facebook page for news, resources, competitons, free books (via tokens) and The biggest book show on earth online festival.

The latest in Scottish Book Trust's Authors Live events also takes place on World Book Day - it's with Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry books. Find out about it here - the page also includes information about how to register and downloadable teaching resources. If you want to borrow some of Francesca's books, there are loads listed in our catalogue.

We also have a book list called Read around the world which might be useful for World Book Day.

The slideshow below shows the titles children can choose to spend their World Book Day tokens on.

 

World Book Day - the Scottish story

Children all over the country celebrated World Book Day yesterday, as reported in today's Herald. A highlight was the live event at the BBC featuring Michael Rosen, which was also watched online by children in over 900 schools. This is the first in a series of Meet Our Author events to be organised by the Scottish Book Trust - this link includes a report and a video.  The Herald article also refers to a survey of parents, organised by Munch Bunch, to mark World Book Day by finding the top 20 bedtime stories - the favourite was Eric Carle's Very hungry caterpillar. The full list is in the Herald link above.

World Book Day

Take part in this year's World Book Day Short Stories competition and you could see your students' stories published in the next World Book Day anthologies. 10 famous authors and 1 famous poet have provided opening lines, so primary and secondary school children from all around the UK and Ireland can take part in the World Book Day Short Stories competition 2009-2010. Register with sponsors, Evans.

Find our own Read Around the World list on this page, made up for the last World Book Day. We'll update it in time for the next one.

World Book Day

World Book Day is next week, the 5th March. To mark it, we've updated our Read Around the World booklist, featuring picture books and stories set in a variety of countries. You can find it in the library, or on our Children's Booklists page.