World Book Day
The Guardian view on children’s reading: a gift that should be for all | Editorial
Editorial: With stressed families less likely to have time and money to spare for books, young readers are losing out. It’s time to boost school libraries
Editorial
03, Mar, 2023 @6:25 PM
Roald Dahl is the last thing we should worry about on World Book Day | Frank Cottrell-Boyce
More important than culture-war noise are the multiple threats to British children learning to love books of any kind
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
02, Mar, 2023 @11:42 AM
‘My baby brother threw up on my jacket’: readers’ World Book Day costume stories
From a failed attempt to dress as Hermione Granger to a Hungry Caterpillar who truly committed to the role, parents and former students on the mad dash to put together a literary outfit
Guardian readers
03, Mar, 2022 @3:48 PM
Tell us about your underwhelming World Book Day costumes
We would like to hear about your worst costumes ahead of World Book Day on Thursday 3 March
Guardian community team
28, Feb, 2022 @5:21 PM
World Book Day: five simple costumes anyone can make, even in lockdown
Are you left scrambling for paints and glue-guns every year? Never fear – here are some options that Donna Ferguson and nine-year-old Flora put together in less than 30 minutes
Donna Ferguson
04, Mar, 2021 @6:00 AM
World Book Day isn’t about fancy dress (apologies to the boy who went as a giant atlas) | Alice O'Keeffe
Every year, time-poor parents buy Harry Potter and Gruffalo outfits destined for landfill, says the literary critics and journalist Alice O’Keeffe
Alice O'Keeffe
05, Mar, 2020 @6:00 AM
Carolee Schneemann, the artist you definitely didn’t hear about at school | Rebecca Nicholson
My curiosity about this shocking revolutionary performer was sparked by the lyrics of a song
Rebecca Nicholson
09, Mar, 2019 @3:30 PM
Readers' World Book Day costumes – from the Cat in the Hat to Mr Tickle
Here are some of the characters you told us about after late nights on the sewing machine
Guardian readers and Rachel Obordo
07, Mar, 2019 @3:41 PM
Show us your World Book Day costumes
Whether you have dressed your child up or you are a teacher who has made their own creation, we’d like to hear from you
Guardian readers
07, Mar, 2019 @9:45 AM
Campaigners warn of 'book poverty' as UK celebrates World Book Day
Tom Watson, deputy Labour party leader, condemns fall in library borrowing as a ‘scandal’, as organisers encourage parents and children to make use of free book token
Alison Flood
07, Mar, 2019 @6:01 AM
Give older children story time to halt fall in young readers, urge experts
Publisher Egmont says steep decline in parents reading to children – who thereby learn to read for pleasure – is ‘a significant threat to their wellbeing’
Alison Flood
05, Mar, 2019 @12:01 AM
Northamptonshire announces 'heavily reduced' libraries plan – on World Book Day
County council implements timetable with immediate effect, leaving 21 libraries open just one day a week – and one food bank to find new location
Alison Flood
01, Mar, 2018 @3:13 PM
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