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THIS YEAR’S DAZZLING LINE-UP… OUR SHARE

Other formats available A STORY For braille & audio Tel: 0303 123 9999 CAMPAIGN For large print Tel: 0118 9838275 CONTINUES How can your setting get involved? INSIDE: This year, we want Your 4-page to keep spreading Share A Story the word about activity the importance of pull-out sharing stories for just 10 minutes a day, anywhere, anytime. PLUS! STORY-WRITING VIDEO MASTERCLASSES with incredible authors and illustrators Amazing new ASSEMBLY PLAN

No matter what you love Simple & fun IDEAS for to read, there are books your Share A Story event for everyone to enjoy! 10 brilliant books for every child to choose s p o n s o r e d b y from, redeemable with their £1 book token. Find out more

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LET'S START WITH THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF Welcome to WORLD BOOK DAY Your WORLD BOOK DAY WORLD BOOK THE £1 BOOKS & TOKEN! timeline planner From a books-themed assembly to bringing your favourite book characters to life through dressing-up and roleplay, this timeline planner DAY 2019 suggests some exciting ways to enjoy the day. We’d love to hear more of your ideas at worldbookday.com/share-your-ideas A huge and heartfelt THANK YOU for supporting WORLD BOOK DAY. As a charity dedicated Kick off the day in style with a whole to celebrating the importance of reading for school Big Booky Breakfast, inviting parents/carers to join breakfast From pleasure, we couldn’t do what we do without you. • Please give a £1 token and Let’s Run a Share A Story- club and share stories to fundraise This pack is designed to support your wonderful Share A Story sticker to every child 8.30am themed World Book Day for Book Aid International. in your class. The stickers are assembly. Download our creativity as well as giving you brand new ideas Find out more at bookaid.org/ designed to encourage parents/ new assembly outline to help you make the most of your WORLD BOOK bookybreakfast and on p.8. carers to join in the celebrations. at worldbookday. DAY celebrations, including: 9.30am com/resources

• Photocopiable activity sheets • The token can be redeemed for a FREE £1 Quiz time! Host a bumper book • A How to Celebrate World Book Day timeline planner book or used to get £1 off ANY book or audiobook quiz. For readymade quizzes see A books-themed lunch worth £2.99 or more at all participating p.2 of the pull-out for younger 11am • A guide to our unmissable new author & illustrator video with (for example) bookshops and supermarkets (find a full list in children and worldbookday.com/ masterclasses Mrs Twit’s Wormy your area at worldbookday.com). resources for older children. • Our newly refreshed online resource bank, full of ideas Spaghetti, Fungus the and inspiration from fellow teachers, librarians & literacy Bogeyman’s Fish ‘n’ co-ordinators • Share the line-up of books with the children – you can 12pm Chips, Pirate Pete’s see the full range, read extracts and Toppsta Share A Story Author and Illustrator Pizza, The Very Hungry Our big ambition for SHARE A STORY 2019: children’s reviews at worldbookday.com/books Masterclass Videos Watch one of our Caterpillar’s Fruit nine author/illustrator challenges Salad and The Gruffalo • We want to take World Book Day beyond the school gates for an hour of creativity, with Crumble and Custard. with SHARE A STORY EVENTS nationwide 1pm • Please try to ensure parents/carers are aware of the inspiring additional resources. Let your imagination • Keep inspiring and encouraging parents and carers tokens and how to use them at pick-up. The token is Find out more on p.6. Available go wild! to get involved valid from 28 February–31 March 2019 (inclusive). at worldbookday.com/online- • Continue to spread the vital message that sharing a story masterclasses from 6 February. with children for just 10 minutes every day can make a 1.30pm Cut out and colour in the World Book Day crucial difference – helping to create readers for life WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! Bookmarks – choose from the family of • Get to know your local bookshop & library if you don't Take part in a free, fabulous characters by our splendid already – organise a visit, benefit from their expert interactive BBC Teach Live Lesson illustrator Rob Biddulph. See p. 3 of knowledge and ensure all children are library members WIN a once-in-a-lifetime on World Book Day at 2pm the pull-out. family adventure to New bbc.com/livelessons York inspired by Roald Dahl’s Matilda, PLUS there are lots of fantastic A Share A Story reading session – why not Thank you again Hand out the £1 book tokens and give National Book Tokens and 2.30pm mix it up by swapping classrooms, each child a Let’s Share A goody bags to be won! heading outside (weather permitting) from the WORLD Story sticker. Please try to or inviting parents to join in? BOOK DAY team. Find out how to enter at ensure that children who don’t worldbookday.com/ have books readily available at 3pm Enjoy the day! Matilda home can borrow a book from school to share. © RDSC/QB, 2019 © RDSC/QB,

‘For children, reading can be a gateway to learning, but also to happiness’ Lauren Child, Waterstones Children’s Laureate ‘I’ve long admired the inventive and ambitious efforts World Book Day go to year after year to switch kids on to reading’ Jeff Kinney

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WORLD BOOK DAY – Are you ready to how do you celebrate yours? Here are 10 excellent tried & tested ideas shared by fellow teachers, literacy co-ordinators and librarians. For more SHARE STORIES & brilliant ideas and to share your own ideas visit worldbookday.com/share-your-ideas

A MONTH OF FUN! READING ADVENTURES 1 We extended World Book 6 Our school had an CREATE READING STARS? Day for a month! Pupils adventure theme – EYFS: found out about the role of Jungle Adventure KS1: Put SHARE A STORY at the heart of your World Book Day celebrations with Children’s Laureate, how pirates Y3/4: magical these new ideas on how stories can be shared, with book recommendations a book gets published, adventures Y5/6: real-life and fun activities. Find more ideas & resources for your Share A Story debated online shopping vs adventurers. The pupils bookshops and did a study dressed up according to celebrations at worldbookday.com/ideas/share-a-story of local famous authors. their year group themes.

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER IT'S A MYSTERY READING STARS COMPETITION BOOKS, GLORIOUS BOOKS! AMAZING 2 All lessons, regardless 7 Daily clues on display Encourage parents/ of subject, had an Alice in for children and parents to The nation’s TOP 100 STORIES TO SHARE AUDIOBOOKS carers & children to Wonderland twist – Food guess the title of the book, & READING RECOMMENDATIONS Tech making The Queen e.g. a blackboard with ‘Help’ Sharing stories doesn’t kickstart new reading of Hearts' Stolen Jam written on it and a small Stories to make you giggle or gasp, stories you’ll never forget. always mean reading them, habits with our SHARE Tarts, Maths working on snail next to it was a clue. This is the ultimate list of stories to share for all ages, as they’re great fun to listen to A STORY READING STAR proportion, etc. There was voted by the nation. For a brilliant list of books to inspire your as well. Children of all ages also a themed Mad Hatter's LISTEN UP can enjoy listening to a range GAME. Photocopy and class or to suggest to parents to share at home visit: lunch. 8 Each member of staff worldbookday.com/100-stories-to-share of FREE full audiobooks hand out the sheets chose a book or author to at worldbookday.com/ on p.1 of the pull-out, WOODEN SPOONS read over the period of a Featuring: 5-8s world-of-stories including 3 We had a competition week. Pupils signed up to Create your own Atticus Claw Lends A Paw by along with the tokens to design a wooden spoon listen to a book or author Reading Stars display Jennifer Gray, The 13-Storey book character – and and each school morning Share a snap of your Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and stickers or direct for the chance to WIN children from Reception began with story time. displays with us at & Terry Denton, Little them to worldbookday. to Year 6 were paired up to 100 OF THE BEST Leaders by Vashti Harrison, [email protected] com/reading-stars to share a story. FLYING THE FLAGS STORIES TO SHARE! The Nothing to See Here for the chance to win Hotel by Steven Butler & play the game online. 9 Inviting parents to In classrooms, school halls, Steven Lenton and Danny DING-DING! read stories in their own the FULL set of our top corridors and libraries across A bell was rung in the language. Making World * and the WorldStoppers by 4 100 Stories to Share. the country, we would love to 9-12s corridors at random times Book Day bunting flags at see BIG, BOLD and BRIGHT Danny Wallace. FREE to stream at home or school through the day to signal home with favourite book displays featuring pupils for every child to pick up character on and then sharing stories with their from 28 February-31 March only. their book and read for a few decorating school with this loved ones from breakfast minutes. on the day. until bedtime. It can be anywhere at any time – on the bus, in a park, on the sofa with OFF TO THE BOOKSHOP SHARE THE READING MAGIC whomever they love to share 5 Each class visited our 10 Older children made stories with. local Waterstones store and book sacks to share with exchanged their tokens for younger children. For more information and for terms & conditions Find loads of other great reading recommendations in our visit worldbookday.com/competitions/share- Reading Ideas You’ll Love booklists for all ages, now updated books. a-story-reading-stars-competition with 20 brand new themed lists for 2019 worldbookday.com/reading-ideas-youll-love *Please note that due to new GDPR restrictions, we are unable to provide names alongside WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! ideas. Thank you to everybody who has contributed to help inspire other schools & libraries.

‘Year after year, World Book Day books are instrumental in actively encouraging children to read for pleasure' Malorie Blackman • ‘Share a Story with a young person for World Book Day 2019. Reading is the best way to share an adventure!' Rick Riordan *Please remember to get parental permission if you are sharing photos with us. photos sharing are if you permission to get parental remember *Please 4 5 PRIMARY RESOURCE PACK PRIMARY RESOURCE PACK

AVAILABLE FROM SHARE A STORY AUTHOR & 6 FEBRUARY ILLUSTRATOR MASTERCLASSES SHARE A STORY This year, we are delighted to introduce this BRAND NEW creative, ACTIVITY inspiring and interactive series of films atworldbookday.com/online- masterclasses, for you to screen in class at ANY time that suits you.

KEY FOCUS ON Waterstones FOR YOUNGER BOOKWORMS Children’s Laureate • Reading We asked some CRESSIDA COWELL SWAPNA HADDOW long list! My top pick has Definitely to be the faun • Writing Alex T. Nadia Lauren Rob of your favourite Pippi Eloise Mr Tumnus Longstocking from the Eloise from The Lion, The Witch Smith Shireen Child Biddulph • Illustration authors & She’s so strong books by Kay and The Wardrobe, because • Creative illustrators to she could lift a horse above Thompson and Hilary Knight. he’s so cool, and because I’d challenges set by her head, she has no visible We’d get into lots of mischief love to see Narnia, a place share which kids’ parents, the cheek of several and I could probably blame it where it’s always winter and these amazing Peter Pans and her very own on Eloise and get away with it. never Christmas, and where authors & book characters monkey. mythical creatures exist and illustrators How to be a Bringing The Magic of Telling Stories they’d most love PAMELA BUTCHART take you on wild adventures! Story Detective Characters to Life Sharing Stories with Pictures SARAH MCINTYRE It would be Judith This exciting new to meet. Iris from Oliver & Kerr’s Mog. I’ve HUMZA ARSHAD the Seawigs. She’s been in love with James, from format will inspire Share A Story Today kind of based on him for over 30 years! If it Roald Dahl’s all students aged FOR BIGGER BOOKWORMS Use this as the basis me, but would we really be wasn’t for Mog and Judith James and the alike? Mermaids have such Kerr I might never have Giant Peach and I’d go with 5-12, whether Abi Elphinstone, Kiran Millwood Jeff Joseph for a classroom Coelho activity to encourage different childhoods and become a children’s author. him on his crazy magical they’re reluctant Hargrave & Robin Stevens Kinney pop-culture influences adventure. I loved this book readers or aspiring children to share growing up. ANDY GRIFFITHS when I read it at school, it authors! stories about their It would definitely opened up my imagination own favourite MAZ EVANS be The Cat in the and took me into another I think I’d be Hat because that world. That’s what I love characters, working great friends with cat really knows how to have about books – they take you WE’VE Finding Inspiration Telling Funny Writing on in pairs and swapping Arianwyn from a good time. I’d get him to inside the story and you feel Stories Leaves & their answers to the James Nicol’s Apprentice teach me how to play ‘UP-UP- as if you’re actually there! GOT FREE Witch series. Like her, I don’t UP with a fish’ and a few of Looking at same question. always get things right – but those other fun games that KATHERINE CLASSROOM Sibéal Chris Frank Cottrell-Boyce Daffodils with we’d have fun getting things he knows. Sure, he’s a little WOODFINE Pounder Riddell & Steven Lenton RESOURCES Poetry wrong! irresponsible – well, a LOT I’d love to meet irresponsible actually – but the engimatic FOR EVERY In partnership with CHARLIE HIGSON that’s all part of his charm! Snufkin, from the Moomin I’d really like to books by Tove Jansson. FILM, TOO! meet Doctor CATHY CASSIDY Perhaps if I was lucky, he’d Dolittle because There are so many invite me to join him on World-Building Finding Creating Characters Through he can talk to animals. He characters I’d love one of his night-time walks Your Style Words & Illustrations could ask our cat why it to meet from the through Moominvalley. keeps pooing on the kitchen world of children’s books floor. Pippi Longstocking, The Mad Hatter, The Tiger Who to WATCH this unmissable series of films and DOWNLOAD REGISTER NOW Came To Tea . . . it’s a very your lesson planning pack from 6 February at worldbookday.com/online-masterclasses

' World Book Day is one of the biggest, most dynamic and most influential campaigns celebrating the joy of stories’ Abi Elphinstone ‘World Book Day truly is a celebration of the excitement and joy that books bring, especially when shared’ Alex T. Smith

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Closing date for entries You, your pupils and your school could win HUNDREDS FRIDAY 12 APRIL. Winners will be of pounds worth of books with our fantastic National announced in early Book Tokens DESIGN A BOOK TOKEN competition. summer 2019.

One lucky winner’s design will be made into a real-life National Book Tokens gift card, to be distributed across bookshops nationwide in time for Christmas. And there are National Book Tokens galore to be won – just imagine all those beautiful new books for your school’s bookshelves.

To take part, your pupils simply have to make their mark on the template provided and design a National Book Token with the theme of Share A Story. A panel of judges will select a winner and runner-up in each of three age categories: up to 8 years, 9-12 years and 13-16 years.

PLEASE SEND FIRST PRIZE in each age range ENTRIES TO: • £250 National Book Tokens for the school World Book Day • £100 National Book Tokens for the pupil Design a Book • £100 National Book Tokens for the teacher Token Competition, Book Tokens Ltd, Design a NATIONAL 6 Bell Yard, London WC2A 2JR BOOK TOKEN SECOND PRIZE in each age range • £150 National Book Tokens for the school 2018's winner and win bundles of • £50 National Book Tokens for the pupil brilliant books! • £50 National Book Tokens for the teacher by Eleanor, aged 12 HOW TO ENTER: All entries should be produced on A4 paper in portrait format (h 81mm x w 127mm) using the template provided. Every entry must be 2017's signed by the teacher, who must print in capitals on the reverse of the winner entry the pupil’s full name, age, school name, address and phone number. by Eleanor, aged 11

Download a template and see the terms and conditions at worldbookday.com/play-and-win/competitions

BECAUSE BOOKS AREN'T JUST FOR BEDTIME CELEBRATE the brilliance of books The at breakfast on World Book Day and help send books around the world. BRILLIANT FUNDRAISING IDEAS TO TRY: • Big Booky Dress Up • Big Booky Bake Off EVERY • Big Booky Swap Shop 2 DONATED • Big Booky Short Short Stories HELPS SEND ANOTHER BOOK! Find out more & get your free fundraising pack at bookaid.org/bookybreakfast

‘An incredible initiative championing the fun of reading in wildly imaginative ways and ensuring every child can take home a book’ Sibéal Pounder

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