Thursday March 7 is World Book Day, and I can’t wait!
So what is World Book Day? Well, it’s a UNESCO designated worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. Now in its 16th year, World Book Day aims to ensure as many children as possible explore the pleasures of books and reading, so you can see why I’m so keen on it.
Here in the UK, school children are entitled to receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token (or equivalent €1.50 Book Token in Ireland) to exchange for a FREE £1 World Book Day book (or it can be redeemed against any book or audio book costing £2.99 or more at a participating bookshop or book club).
World Book Day is a perfect excuse to do something fun around books. I’ll definitely be watching The Biggest Book Show on Earth but maybe you’ll find the perfect activity for your family or class in NurtureStore’s 50 ideas for World Book Day, or perhaps you might prefer to get creative in the kitchen and create a dish inspired by your family’s favourite book, and enter it into my Edible Book Festival.
Whatever you do, why not enter the competition I have for you today – to win an entire set of the World Book Day books:
All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is leave a comment on this post!
Please note:
*Tweet about the competition, perhaps using this text: Win a complete set of @worldbookdayUK books over at @playbythebook’s blog http://www.playingbythebook.net/?p=24420
*Follow @worldbookdayuk on twitter
*Share this competition on Facebook
For any of these to count, you must leave a separate comment on this blog post for each extra entry.
Good luck!
88 Responses
claire Toplis
I have tweeted out as @needaphone
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Julie MRB
I would love to win these books for my boys.
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Julie MRB
Following on twits as @JulieMRB
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Julie MRB
And am tweeting now. @JulieMRB
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Tressa Lapham Green
I love World Book Day & think it’s great kids get a free voucher. I love the fact there is a book I can get for my son Alfie!
Helen Dickinson
What a lovely giveaway! We are huge fans of books here. I find reading really important to my son and love world book day!
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Helen Dickinson
I am following on Twitter as @MummyToTheMax and have also tweeted the comp here:
https://twitter.com/MummyToTheMax/status/306910581825363968
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Suzanne Cooke
I adored books when I was a child and I am so glad my daughter feels the same.
Suzanne Cooke
tweeted as @magicmoondust
anna w
a superb comp, we have four children so we have a housefull of books but more never go amiss!
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anna w
also followed on twitt annawarner5 and retweeted too https://twitter.com/annawarner5/status/307420218093887488
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juliette
What a great opportunity to experience new authors. I love World Book day – we take the kids to Waterstones or WH SMith with their tokens and spend ages browsing
Rachael Barnard
What a good idea to give away a complete set – my daughter loves Ruby Redfort
Rachael Barnard
have tweeted @rachibarnie
Rachael Barnard
have followed @rachiebarnie
Jane
Great giveaway! Alfie is my favourite so I’m eager to get my hands on that one!
Janey x
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Jane
I’ve also tweeted (@cupidsbow1414)
Janey x
Jane recently posted..February on Is That You Darling
Jane
And I’ve followed WBD on Twitter too (@cupidsbow1414)
Janey x
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Rebecca Beesley
fabulous competition! I have two real bookworms in this family so it would be nice to keep them busy for a while – I think they have read every kids book that our local library stocks so they would LOVE some new reads. xxx
Rebecca Beesley
am following on twitter (@rebeccabeesley). Have just got extremely excited to spot Lauren’s childs new ruby redfort book on that list. Never mind the kids – I ADORE RUBY REDFORT MYSELF!!! Now I have to keep my fingers doubly crossed. x
Rebecca Beesley
Have tweeted about the competiton for you. Here is the tweet ref: https://twitter.com/RebeccaBeesley/status/307995753731739649
Rebecca Beesley
have shared on my facebook profile (Rebecca Beesley). thanks x
NicThorpe
What would life be without a good book? Brilliant competition, thanks.
Hannah Marks
Great competition – please enter me, thanks.
@Hannah_Marks
Alice
What a wonderful competition. A great way to encourage children to read!
Tina Holmes
Awesome we love books 🙂
@supermommy1983
Hannah
Have tweeted the comment above! Thanks.
@Hannah_Marks
Sharon Bailey
What an inspiring day for encouraging reading for pleasure! As a school we shall have all our book nooks engaged and have encouraged parents to send in pictures of their children enjoying a book in a nook. I have even been inspired to make and bring in some edible books to enjoy as part of this special day. Thanks a lot for all the wonderful ideas and the 23 reasons to read poster…. Just brilliant!!!
Natalie Neylon
I’m a teacher and very much looking forward to World Book Day 🙂
vicky M
My children are going to miss World boy day at school this year because they have chicken pox 🙁
Kelly Hockings
A fab idea my kids school ain’t doing nothing for world book day this year which is a shame as it’s nice for kids to read books etc and understand how important reading is xx
Kelly Hockings
have followed on twitter as @kelz_belz1
Kelly Hockings
have also tweeted as @kelz_belz1
Erica Price
What a lovely selection of books!
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Sarah Matthews
Radio 3 has been doing great coverage of World Book Day this morning, with links between books and music.
ReadItDaddy
That’s a bum-kickingly great selection of books!
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kelli flanagan
Great selection, Would keep my 9 year old bookworm busy for at least a week –