When I read the story in the DM, I had to chuckle.... I thought maybe the cable ties and the eye mask were a step too far (not that I have read the books or seen the film - cba), but I did think the teachers at the school should maybe 'lighten up' a bit. I used to hate the dressing up days when my kids were at school, it is not that easy to 'knock up an outfit' if you are not handy with a needle and no way could you compete anyhow with parents who specifically hired an outfit for a day. Most of the kids I have seen going to school this year seem to be dressed up as superheroes and girls dressed as princesses from Frozen, surely these are comic and film characters, not books, so I don't think World Book Day has any real effect on schoolkids (only their parents who have to try and find the cheapest book in a shop to use the wretched £1 off token)!