Become involved in World Book Day UK – 1st March 2012

Overall, they’ve sent more than 20 million books to partner libraries since 1954.  Take a look at their website for further information: www.bookaid.org.

There is loads of information and resources available so that you can get involved on the website: http://www.bookaid.org/worldbookday.

Whether you’re a parent, teacher, librarian or book lover and you want to host a “bake for books” sale, encourage your child to dress up or dress down for World Book Day, or host a bookish quiz evening, there is a huge amount of resources and fundraising ideas available to you. Just follow the link above to find them and most importantly have fun!

 World Book Day is offering competition prize to WIN £100 of National Book Tokens for your school and there are two fantastic competitions for you to enter. The closing date for applications is 2 April 2012 and the winners will be announced on our website. For further information about this competition, take a look at our website: http://www.bookaid.org/get-involved/world-book-day-2/competition/.  The first is a Dress up competition for pre-school and primary schools and the second is a Poetry competition for secondary schools.

There’s also tons of useful information on their website about partner projects, and they will  be following the progress of several key projects throughout the year. For further information take a look at the Our Stories page on the website http://www.bookaid.org/our-work/our-stories-2/

The following hashtags are being used for World Book Day action:  #worldbookday2012 and #WBD12

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