📚 World Book Day 📚

My husband read the entire boxed set of Thomas the Tank Engine to our two sons and then read them The Hobbit. All three of them have great memories of bed time stories.

I used to work for a major book manufacturer and had access to their book sales shop, which meant my niece and nephews all had huge book collections as did my own children. My DS1 loved Winnie the Pooh and a book of nonsense poems, my ds2 loved fantasy books, my DS3, loved books about sport and my DD loved princess stories. My DGDs have inherited a large collection of books now and DGD2’s favourite just now is a counting book

Every day is a world book day with my family. At 79 I still read before I get up, and before I put the light out at night and always have books on the go during the day too. Whenever we moved one of the first day important jobs was always to find the local library and to get a ticket for us all. The library is also the place where you find out about whatever interest you have so would find out about choirs and gardening clubs etc etc,

As to books that were special when my son was little were The tiger who came to tea, the very hungry Caterpillar, and of course the great Each Peach Pear Plum, which was also popular in schools when I was teaching. I even remember one of my favourite books from many years ago was The Secret Garden and then a vey old book called The Girl of the Limberlost. Plus Jane Eyre , which the fire scene frightened the life out of me when reading it late at night when I was meant to be asleep about the age of 8. Oh the joy of books for every age. Keep enjoying them at every age.

My 6 year old granddaughter loves world book day. She has just discovered the Harry Potter books,of course she went as Hermione. I just don't understand the controversy about the pressure parents are under to produce costumes that are time consuming to make or expensive to buy. The school doesn't put pressure on the children the emphasis is on the joy of reading books.

One of my granddaughters loved all the Topsy and Tim books, I read them so many times I was sick of them!

We had a collection of Amelia Bedelia books and Berenstain Bear books that my daughter loved.

Such a happy, sunny day for World Book Day. It’s usually cold and wet! My little Grandson (4) was the Dalmatian from the book Hospital Dog. So cute. I used to be a little cynical about the whole concept, but seeing the local children all smiles, dressed up on the way to school was just great.
Koalama, what a clever idea.

Last year my then 10 Yr old grandson decided he didn't want to dress up any more, so he made a book all about his self and went as his self, the teachers loved it

My daughter dressed up for her nursery class as Little Red Riding Hood with her teaching assistant as the woodcutter. He was struggling for a costume so she asked him if he had a plaid shirt and light dawned that he could wear that, his jeans and Timberlands and all he had to make was an axe! She also said that she had parents trying to pay for the book tokens that they gave out.

My DGD dressed up as Dorothy (Wiz of Oz). She looked just the part,
Some of her class had to read to reception children. How lovely!

DGS2 loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar too, but went to Pre-school in his Gruffalo onesie.
To minimize costs for parents, DGS1’s school did a pyjama day instead.

For my GC it was The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
It delightful seeing the children going to school on WBD, all dressed up as their favourite character.