The World Book Day books
Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2017
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We hope you had a wonderful celebration of all things booky on World Book Day! Here's a reminder of the books available to buy from your local bookshops with your World Book Day book vouchers.
You can exchange your 1 voucher for a book until 26th March - but be quick, these fabulous books are sure to be popular! Peppa Loves World Book Day It's World Book Day, but Peppa has so many favourite books, she can't decide which character to dress up as! Who will she be? Find out in this Peppa Pig story! Peppa is a loveable, cheeky little piggy who lives with her little brother George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig. Peppa's favourite things include playing games, dressing up, days out and jumping in muddy puddles. Her adventures always end happily with loud snorts of laughter. Everyone Loves Underpants By Claire Freedman This zany, hilarious tale is delightfully brought to life by Ben Cort's vibrant illustrations. With a madcap, rhyming text by award-winning Claire Freedman, this is sure to enchant and amuse the whole family! In this PANTSTASTIC story, join old friends to celebrate the wonder of underpants! Where's Wally: The Fantastic Journey By Martin Handford Join Wally on his quest through magical and bizarre fantasy lands. Hidden in every intricately-detailed scene are Wally and his friends so let the hunt begin! Full of eye-boggling extras and hours of fun, this third classic Wally adventure comes in a fiendish mini edition and extra puzzling and magical puzzles to play. Wow! Amazing! The Famous Five: Good Old Timmy and Other Stories By Enid Blyton Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series. This special illustrated World Book Day book has three short stories about the Famous Five. In Good Old Timmy, the five see a boy being kidnapped at the beach and set out to rescue him. But where have the kidnappers hidden the boy? Could Timmy lead them to the answer? Horrid Henry: Funny Fact Files By Francesca Simon Horrid Henry is the no.1 expert in pulling pranks, running a cool club and making as much mayhem as possible. And now you can be just like him! This hilarious book is full of fiendish facts about Horrid Henry, plus top-secret diary entries, club passwords and tips for dealing with annoying siblings. Princess Mirror-belle and Snow White By Julia Donaldson Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at that. In this story Mirror-Belle comes popping out of Ellen's mirror to help out with the local pantomime taking the story off script a hilarious way. Butterfly Beach By Jacqueline Wilson A brand-new story starring the unlikely best friends of The Butterfly Club, published specially for World Book Day 2017, from bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson. Selma can't wait to go on holiday with her best friend forever, Tina. But a holiday with Tina means a holiday with her triplet sisters, too - and it's not long before Selma feels like the odd one out. Can their shared love of butterflies bring Selma and Tina together again? Blob By David Walliams This is the story of how a boy called Bob meets a blobfish fish called Blob . . . Island By David Almond Each year, 16-year old Louise travels with her father to the island of Lindisfarne. It's a holiday, but also a pilgrimage to the place Louise's mother loved best of all in the whole world. This year things are changing and the beautiful and haunted island is a troubled place. Louise and her father arrive at the same time as Hassan, a mysterious boy from Syria, who fascinates Louise. He seems to have known this place from long ago, and to be at home here. He's an acrobat, maybe a sorcerer, maybe a source of great danger. The gang of boys who live in the island's wilder places want to cast him out. Over the course of a few days, the forces of love, death, hope and destruction move these characters towards a deeper understanding of themselves and the world. This is a story which shows how the journeys we take and the people we meet shape us forever. Dead of Night By Michael Grant Rio Richlin doesn't have superpowers. She is an ordinary young woman. A soldier in the American army, wearing a uniform, carrying a rifle, and fighting alongside thousands who are trying to make a difference, trying to change the world. At least, that's the plan. Right now she's part of a squad on a training exercise in some place called Wales. They're cold, they're wet, and Rio's pretty sure they're also lost. Spending the night in a creepy old inn wasn't part of the plan at all... Set in the alternative World War II scenario of his Front Lines novels, Michael Grant, author of the bestselling Gone series, has written this story exclusively for World Book Day.
