Library love! Here’s a new poem by Brum poet Bradley Taylor celebrating Stirchley Library and all the librarians and library assistants who are at the heart of our public libraries. Yes, heart is definitely the right word… ❤️ Birmingham Loves Libraries LibraryofBirmingham

Become an instant expert on awesome Pokémon and their Trainers in Pokémon: The Epic Pocket Guide. This epic pocket-sized guide will turn early readers into top Trainers in no time! ➡️ worldbookday.com/book/pokemon-t…

Filled with poems that WANT to be read aloud, you’ll be laughing, tongue-twisting and thinking with All Poems Aloud for early readers by Children’s Laureate 2022-24 Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett. ➡️ worldbookday.com/book/all-poems…

Our final £1/€1.50 book for early readers (exclusive to Ireland) Is Fox & Son Tailers by Paddy Donnelly! Animals come from all over to have their tails made by Rory’s dad, Fox, the BEST tailer in the business! But Rory has his own ideas… worldbookday.com/book/fox-son-t…

Our next book for fluent readers is The Wolf Trials: A Geomancer Book – a thrilling new adventure from the epic Geomancer trilogy by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, illustrated by Manuel Šumberac 🐺 ➡️ worldbookday.com/book/the-wolf-…

Ymunwch â’r arbenigwr natur Duncan Brown ar daith ddifyr, llawn ffeithiau ar draws Cymru, a darganfod y bywyd gwyllt rhyfeddol sydd o’n cwmpas. 📚Gwyrdd ein Byd gan Duncan Brown, wedi’i ddarlunio gan Helen Flook a’i gyhoeddi gan Gwasg Rily Publications ➡️ worldbookday.com/book/gwyrdd-ei…

Finally, our £1/€1.50 book for independent readers…the page-turning mystery This Story is a Lie by Benjamin Dean. Friends, enemies, and a chalk outline of a body at the bottom of the stairs…does the underdog deserve to win? ➡️ worldbookday.com/book/this-stor… benjamin dean

Get ready to #ReadYourWay this World Book Day with our amazing line-up of £1/€1.50 books, authors and illustrators for 2025! Children will be able to choose their own book from 13 February 2025, FREE with a £1/€1.50 token. 📚✨

Wow what a line up! So many children are going to adore these books. Bluey, Pokémon, Paddington, Poems Aloud and so much more. Well done World Book Day UK 📚 for considering #EYFS readers and following current interests.

So so proud to be a part of this incredible line up of authors and illustrators ♥️

So excited and honoured that Anita Mangan and I have been chosen to write a £1 book (free with a token) for World Book Day UK 📚 2025. The Fart That Broke World Book Day will be available in February! Scholastic UK

.World Book Day UK 📚 has announced its list of 15 books, written by the likes of Joseph Coehlo, Stephen Mangan, Julia Donaldson and Benjamin Dean, to be made available for free with a £1/€1.50 book token on World Book Day 2025 (6th March 2025) 👇 thebookseller.com/news/coehlo-do…

Thank you to the 360 children who helped choose 2025’s brand new books! For children to read more, they need to be in charge – choosing what, where and how to read. #ReadYourWay   Read about how we’re working with children from all backgrounds to encourage reading for pleasure

Libraries give us power! ✊💘 Our Brum Library Zine team. Birmingham writers championing Birmingham’s 35 beautiful, vital community libraries. Coming 21st September. Join the fight at Birmingham Loves Libraries

Huge pride in our booksellers, never more so than seeing the collective contribution laid out in our powerful report. Huge thanks to Arts Council England for support and funding. The Bookseller - News: Independent bookshops' 'impressive' cultural impact revealed thebookseller.com/news/independe…

Farshore Emily Sommerfeld Olivia Carson The Quarto Group meg fowler FairyLoot Simon & Schuster UK Simon & Schuster Children's Books Ali Dougal Katie Fraser HarperCollinsUK HarperCollins Children's Books Two Hoots Liz Scott xigxag Voxblock smallcarla Sofia Akel Free Books Campaign Syima Aslam Rhiannon Edinburgh International Book Festival Bookshop.org Mark Thornton @SailFestUK PuffinBooks Karrie Fransman Ruth Knowles James Spackman Knights Of Molly Ker Hawn Eishar Kaur STORYMIX Jasmine Richards - says buy THE UNMORROW CURSE Penguin Books UK Dr Zaahida Nabagereka Read for Good National Book Tokens Publishers Association Sweet Cherry Publishing National Literacy Trust The Reading Agency Martin Galway Debbie Hicks "We need to make sure that all of that presence and profile is making a difference", Cassie Chadderton shared @worldbookdayUK’s recent strategy and their focus on promoting reading for pleasure 📚 #KidsConf

Today's National Literacy Trust report is clear: this is a reading crisis. Only 1 in 3 are reading for enjoyment, and getting the benefits it brings. World Book Day UK 📚 is only about reading for fun. Let's let children choose what they want to read. #GrowAGenerationofReaders #readyourway

Are you a councillor or library professional interested in learning more about World Book Day? Join Local Government Association (LGA) webinar on Monday 27 January to hear from the World Book Day team and librarians, as we discuss our work to encourage reading for enjoyment, including how our 2025 Read

Terrific start to the ASCL Literacy & Oracy conference by Cassie Chadderton World Book Day UK 📚 on how we help more children regain the joy of just reading for pleasure. The context is stark: #asclliteracy

World Book Day is exactly one month away! 🥳📚 We've been proud sponsors of World Book Day UK 📚 for nearly 30 years, offering every young person in the UK and Ireland the opportunity to have a book of their own 🙌 Check out this year’s brilliant books 📖🪄 #ReadYourWay #WBD25