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World Book Day UK 📚

@worldbookdayuk

📚 World Book Day® - Thursday 5 March 2026📚
World Book Day is a charity, sponsored by National Book Tokens. Follow here for news, bookish fun and more!

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We're delighted to announce the #IndieBookAwards 2025 shortlist. Championing the best paperbacks of the summer, the books are curated by independent bookshops as part of #IndieBookshopWeek (14 - 21 June). Find out more in the 🔗 in our bio. #ChooseBookshops 🧡

We're delighted to announce the #IndieBookAwards 2025 shortlist. 

Championing the best paperbacks of the summer, the books are curated by independent bookshops as part of #IndieBookshopWeek (14 - 21 June).

Find out more in the 🔗 in our bio. 

#ChooseBookshops 🧡
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✨ Children's Fiction Shortlist ✨ • Finding Bear by Hannah Gold • Ghostlines by Katya Balen • Murder for Two by Niyla Farook • The Falling Boy by David Almond • Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku • Reek by Alastair Chisholm #IndieBookAwards

✨ Children's Fiction Shortlist ✨

• Finding Bear by Hannah Gold
• Ghostlines by Katya Balen
• Murder for Two by Niyla Farook
• The Falling Boy by David Almond
• Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku
• Reek by Alastair Chisholm
 
#IndieBookAwards
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✨ Picture Book Shortlist ✨ • Bear by Natalia Shaloshvili • The Dinosaur Next Door by David Litchfield • Farah Loves Mangoes by Sarthak Sinha • The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnlley • Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright • Runaway Cone by Morag Hood #IndieBookAwards

✨ Picture Book Shortlist ✨

• Bear by Natalia Shaloshvili
• The Dinosaur Next Door by David Litchfield
• Farah Loves Mangoes by Sarthak Sinha
• The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnlley
• Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright
• Runaway Cone by Morag Hood
 
#IndieBookAwards
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School Library staff ⏰We want to hear from you! We’re busy planning World Book Day 20256. Your insights and opinions matter to us, and we invite you to join our upcoming focus group. Sign up here to take part - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

School Library staff ⏰We want to hear from you! We’re busy planning World Book Day 20256.

Your insights and opinions matter to us, and we invite you to join our upcoming focus group. 

Sign up here to take part - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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Early Years Practitioners 🔔 As we prepare for World Book Day 2026, we’d love to hear from you. 🫵🏼 Join our focus group and help shape the celebration 💫 Sign up here - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Early Years Practitioners 🔔

As we prepare for World Book Day 2026, we’d love to hear from you. 🫵🏼

Join our focus group and help shape the celebration 💫

Sign up here - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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Primary teachers ⏰ World Book Day 2026 planning is underway, and we want to hear from you! ✨ Join our focus group and share your thoughts with us 💭 Sign up here - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Primary teachers ⏰

World Book Day 2026 planning is underway, and we want to hear from you! ✨

Join our focus group and share your thoughts with us 💭

Sign up here - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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National Book Tokens (National Book Tokens), a group company of the Booksellers Association, has announced the winners of the annual Design a National Book Token Competition, as part of the organisation’s sponsorship of World Book Day 👇 thebookseller.com/news/winners-o…

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Thank you to the amazing team at Gardners for inviting us as their guests to The #BritishBookAwards - we had a brilliant time 📖💫 Gardners are fantastic supporters of the charity and every year ​send out an INCREDIBLE 750,000 books to shops across the country for children to

Thank you to the amazing team at <a href="/Gardners/">Gardners</a> for inviting us as their guests to The #BritishBookAwards - we had a brilliant time 📖💫

Gardners are fantastic supporters of the charity and every year ​send out an INCREDIBLE 750,000 books to shops across the country for children to
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We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s National Book Tokens Design a National Book Token competition! 🎉 The theme 'Read Your Way' inspired so many incredible designs 🎨🖌️Congratulations to Ethan, age 15, who won the top prize - selected by bestselling Bunny vs Monkey

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s <a href="/book_tokens/">National Book Tokens</a> Design a National Book Token competition! 🎉 

The theme 'Read Your Way' inspired so many incredible designs 🎨🖌️Congratulations to Ethan, age 15, who won the top prize - selected by bestselling Bunny vs Monkey
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💭📖 What does your reading mood look like? Use our Reading Mood Board activity to spark discussion and imagination around reading choices. Available to download on our website - worldbookday.com/resource/2025-…

💭📖 What does your reading mood look like?

Use our Reading Mood Board activity to spark discussion and imagination around reading choices.

Available to download on our website - worldbookday.com/resource/2025-…
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My lovely publisher uclan publishing has joined forces with World Book Day UK 📚 to offer UK schools a bumper prize… ME! Nobody panic - it’s only for 45 minutes. Win a zoom author visit for me PLUS a class set of my 3 Pirate 🏴‍☠️ Academy books. To enter, click on my linktree above!

My lovely publisher <a href="/foxandinkbooks/">uclan publishing</a> has joined forces with <a href="/WorldBookDayUK/">World Book Day UK 📚</a> to offer UK schools a bumper prize… ME! Nobody panic - it’s only for 45 minutes. Win a zoom author visit for me PLUS a class set of my 3 Pirate 🏴‍☠️ Academy books. To enter, click on my linktree above!
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World Book Day is excited to be supporting the brilliant The Week Junior Book Awards, in the Children’s Book of the Year: Breakthrough category this year. We are also proud that Cassie Chadderton, our Chief Executive, is one of the judges. We can’t wait for the awards in

World Book Day is excited to be supporting the brilliant <a href="/theweekjunior/">The Week Junior</a> Book Awards, in the Children’s Book of the Year: Breakthrough category this year. 

We are also proud that Cassie Chadderton, our Chief Executive, is one of the judges.

We can’t wait for the awards in
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We're planning for 2026 and we'd love for home educators to join our focus group and share your thoughts with us! 💡💫 Sign up here to take part - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

We're planning for 2026 and we'd love for home educators to join our focus group and share your thoughts with us! 💡💫

Sign up here to take part - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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Jump into someone else’s story this June! Join the Empathy Day Festival happening in schools, libraries, bookshops or at home, and be part of a nationwide movement to foster empathy through stories, creating a world in which we all understand each other better. Running from

Jump into someone else’s story this June! 

Join the Empathy Day Festival happening in schools, libraries, bookshops or at home, and be part of a nationwide movement to foster empathy through stories, creating a world in which we all understand each other better.

Running from
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It’s #WorldBeeDay! 🐝 These busy bees help maintain our ecosystems and ensure the future of our food supply. 🌱 Help your little ones discover why bees matter with the story of Bee and Me by @alisonjay17 published by oldbarnbooks on our Share A Story Corner page. Don’t

It’s #WorldBeeDay! 🐝 These busy bees help maintain our ecosystems and ensure the future of our food supply. 🌱 

Help your little ones discover why bees matter with the story of Bee and Me by @alisonjay17 published by <a href="/oldbarnbooks/">oldbarnbooks</a> on our Share A Story Corner page. 

Don’t
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📢 NEW: Our #ReadingRights report with Waterstones Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce is out now! It shares 5 focus areas that will turn the tide on reading inequality and unveils plans for our City of Stories place-based pilot: booktrust.org.uk/about-us/readi… Arts Council England #ACESupported

📢 NEW: Our #ReadingRights report with Waterstones <a href="/UKLaureate/">Children's Laureate</a> Frank Cottrell-Boyce is out now!

It shares 5 focus areas that will turn the tide on reading inequality and unveils plans for our City of Stories place-based pilot:

booktrust.org.uk/about-us/readi… <a href="/ace_national/">Arts Council England</a> #ACESupported
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Competitions alert 💥 From book bundles to a chance to win a virtual author visit for your school, we've got some brilliant prizes for all ages 📖🌟 Find out more and how to enter here - worldbookday.com/competitions/

Competitions alert 💥

From book bundles to a chance to win a virtual author visit for your school, we've got some brilliant prizes for all ages 📖🌟

Find out more and how to enter here - worldbookday.com/competitions/
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🎉 Happy #ElmerDay! 🌈 Watch a heart-warming video story of Elmer, read by the David McKee, in our Share a Story Corner on our website 📖✨ Plus, download the free activity pack, featuring a fun Camouflage Challenge and a Thank You for Making Me Smile” postcard! Find local

🎉 Happy #ElmerDay! 🌈 Watch a heart-warming video story of Elmer, read by the David McKee, in our Share a Story Corner on our website 📖✨ Plus, download the free activity pack, featuring a fun Camouflage Challenge and a Thank You for Making Me Smile” postcard! 

Find local
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Public Library staff ⏰ World Book Day 2026 planning is underway, and we want to hear from you! ✨ Join our focus group and share your thoughts with us 💭 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Public Library staff ⏰

World Book Day 2026 planning is underway, and we want to hear from you! ✨

Join our focus group and share your thoughts with us 💭
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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There’s still time to sign up ✨ Join the World Book Day and EmpathyLabUK #EmpathyDayFestival webinar on 4 June. We’ll be exploring how conversations about books can spark empathy and make reading even more joyful. With expert guest speakers Teresa Cremin and author Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak.

There’s still time to sign up ✨
Join the World Book Day and <a href="/EmpathyLabUK/">EmpathyLabUK</a> #EmpathyDayFestival webinar on 4 June. We’ll be exploring how conversations about books can spark empathy and make reading even more joyful. With expert guest speakers <a href="/TeresaCremin/">Teresa Cremin</a> and author <a href="/nazneen372/">Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak</a>.