📚 World Book Day 📚

My DD favourite book was by Jill Murphy and was called "Peace at last" I bought few of her books for my grandson last Christmas he loves being read too. They did do Book day in his nursery and school but NO dressing up , which I thought was brilliant as it is supposed to be about books not dressing up. They could all choose a book from the book corner to look / read.

My GD’s school doesn’t do dressing up for WBD now. They have a number of children with special needs who don’t like things such as dressing up and families who are struggling financially so they have a pyjama day instead. Even the teachers join in, which the children love!

Little grand daughter who is two had her first World book day in her school nursery this year. The children could wear pyjamas. She was going to go in her Winnie the Pooh ones, then Bluey was mentioned but her bright blue onesie (complete with matching soft toy) from Monsters Inc ended up as the chosen outfit. She was delighted. I loved WBD as a teacher and as a Mum and like the idea of nightwear (fir a bedtime story) or a costume. It doesn't need to be expensive. One of my son's went as Noddy and that was a red sweatshirt, navy shorts, a navy beanie hat and a duster as a neckerchief. Katie Morag was always a favourite for girls - kilt, jumper and wellies. All the teachers loved dressing up too!

My 3 year old granddaughter went as 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'.
I managed to get a dress from a charity shop for £2.00. I washed it but there was a little mark near the waste band so I made some little flowers and glued them on. She loved the butterfly wings and apparently kept it on all day at nursery. My granddaughter is hyperlexic and has been reading since she was two years 2 months. She sounds out the words phonetically and she does seem to understand most of what she reads. Her mum had told nursery she could read and they just said ' Oh can she' Until one day the nursery staff saw her reading the words on the back of a book with no pictures. So they wrote some simple words on a a white board and she just rattled them off. Then they wrote bigger words like butterfly and caterpillar and then xylophone which she read out loud. They told her mum at home time declaring she could read!
I bought her a new book just this week by Mo Willems called 'The Pigeon has to go to school'. The pigeon tells the reader 'Wait don't read that title!. We had not read it to her and we hadn't seen it on the TV. She read it as tit le (as in blue tit). I corrected her but she still insisted on reading it her way. I will have to work on that. The 1st time we realised she was reading was when she read Emu in a book on animals and she read it as em u. We corrected her then and she accepted the correct pronunciation.
At this rate she is going to be reading the classics in no time lol!

My grandson (6) went as Snufkin from The Moomins - his dad’s favourite rather than his ! His dad made the whole outfit including pipe and felt hat and they were both very proud of themselves ..! My granddaughter went as ‘Little Red ‘ - the modern version of Red Riding Hood - grandad made her a huge axe (cardboard and tinfoil) which had to be modified slightly as looked to ferocious for school …! Both grandkids love the Katie Morag stories - great stories and so much to look at in the beautiful painted pictures . Hungry caterpillar was alway a favourite in early days. Grandson has also always loved Beatrix Potter

Both of my GC love books and read every day at home and always a bedtime story. Topsy & Tim were their all time favourite. The 6 year old currently enjoys Mr Men books. Apparently Grandad is Mr Muddle and I am little Miss Busy 😂 The 10 year old is enjoying The Worst Witch Books and Lottie Brookes.

I always have a book on the go as does my DH. When we first started dating we used to drive to a beauty spot put our deckchairs up and read, and we still do the same 47 years on😂

My GCs love Going On A Bear Hunt, Stick Man, Room On The Broom, The Lion Inside, and The Gruffalo.
Though there are many more, these I read the most.

My DGC were Belle and a Knight in shing armour. They looked beautiful. 😍

My children's favourite was The Enormous Turnip, then The Borrowers. I now have a 4yr old granddaughter and when she has a sleepover here she always asks for that enormous story!

I read the Dr.Zeuss books to my three boys, they practically new them off by heart. I heard on the radio the other dsy that the average number of books read is 3 a year, unbelievable, I read at least three a month, I thought everyone read a book a month. I buy books and borrow from the wonderful local library.

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I taught at a lovely school in quite a deprived area. On ‘World book day’ I would say 90% of the boys came in their football kit. “ Well” they would say “I had a football book for Christmas”. Bless ‘em

You'll never guess what my youngest GS wore for World Book Day. Yup, his England Strip.

Over the years my GCs have usually worn more original costumes like Tom the chimney sweep from 'The Water Babies' or Pippi Longstocking.

I read Peter Rabbit so often to my elder son that I (and he) more or less knew it by heart. Then he became obsessed with Lucy and Tom’s Day by Shirley Hughes.

My younger son didn’t want to be read to. He liked to lie in his cot imagining things. We could hear him talking to himself about them. Then he learned to read himself well before school age.

PS My grandson, when he was very little, adored a book callev Dig Dig Digging. Any attempt to read another book was met by “Can we have Dig Dig Digging again?”