World Book Day resources
Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2021
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World Book Day resources
Schools and families are preparing to celebrate this year's World Book Day, Thursday 4th March, at home as well as at school, with many using digital tokens to buy their World Book Day books and online activities.
World Book Day has been working with schools and nurseries to distribute the £1 tokens with a new single-use digital version that can be printed at home or displayed on a phone (see link to register, below).
The digital tokens can be used from Thursday 18th February to Saturday 28th March (some retailers will accept the tokens beyond this date). You can find out more details over on the World Book Day website via the link, below.
This year's £1 books include:
There's a Wolf in Your Book written by Tom Fletcher, illustrated by Greg Abbott (Puffin Books)
Luna Loves World Book Day written by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Fiona Lumbers (Andersen Press)
What the Ladybird Heard written by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Lydia Monks (Macmillan)
Gigantosaurus written by Jonny Duddle (Bonnier)
Planet Omar: Operation Kind written by Zanib Mian (Hachette)
Protect the Planet written by Jess French, illustrated by Aleesha Nandhra (DK)
The River Whale written by Sita Brahmachari (Hachette)
Skysteppers written by Katherine Rundell (Bloomsbury)
Little Badman and the Radioactive Samosa written by Humza Arshad and Henry White, illustrated by Aleksei Bitskoff (Puffin Books)
Football School written by Alexander Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, illustrated by Spike Gerrell (Walker Books)
Kill Joy written by Holly Jackson (Egmont)
Skulduggery Pleasant Apocalypse Kings written by Derek Landy (Harper Collins)
This year, World Book Day is rolling out an online programme of events, including YouTube readings featuring this year's authors, from 1st Februrary up to WBD itself on Thursday 4th March. You can find all the events and tutorials on the Authors and Illustrators Academy on the World Book Day website, along with activity sheets and discussion guides.
From 3rd to 5th March, there will also be a "Share a Story Live" events programme with the WBD authors and illustrators, as well as other well-known faces. You can join in too by posting photos of your family or class sharing a story together on social media.
