Attention schools and education settings! 📚✨
It’s time to register for World Book Day 2027.
By registering, you’ll help us ensure your setting receives the correct number of book tokens.
Don’t miss out — registration closes 11 October.
Request your settings tokens here -https://t.co/4xOonVzfzN
500 Words is now open!
Children aged 5 –11 can now enter the 500 Words competition , giving them the chance to let their imaginations run wild and share a story of 500 words or fewer.
Stories can be about anything and are judged on creativity, character, plot and originality.
Entries are open until Friday 6 November at 9pm.
Find out more at https://t.co/JLvspwQXUY.
Competition closes 9pm Friday 6 November 2026. For more details and to read the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notices go to https://t.co/JLvspwQXUY.
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd.
Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves.
Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
A very warm #WorldBookDay welcome to our brilliant 2027 £1/€1.50 authors and illustrators! 📚✨
We’re so excited to see you out and about at schools, bookshops and libraries across the country next year, helping inspire even more children to discover the fun of reading. 🌟
And, of course, a huge thank you to all the publishers, booksellers, libraries, educators and our amazing headline sponsor @book_tokens for helping us make #WorldBookDay happen every year. 💛
One week to go! 🎉
Soon we'll be unveiling the 2027 £1/€1.50 World Book Day books, along with the amazing authors and illustrators who created them.
Set your reminders and join us here at 8am next Wednesday for the big reveal. 👀📚
Why do I offer all of my school visits entirely free of charge?
Because I genuinely believe that if I can get children excited about reading, who knows where that could take them throughout the rest of their lives?! 🚀
If I can play even a small part in keeping children reading, then that’s a pretty good reason to keep doing what I do. 📚
https://t.co/eljUAaZHyV
#FreeSchoolVisits #ChildrensAuthor #ReadingForPleasure #LoveOfReading #SchoolVisits
We’ve seriously lost the plot, we desperately need to re-focus on reading, information & education.
Great staff, great collections and great buildings.
Let libraries be libraries.
First visit to The Little Fox Bookshop in Whitby and I'm in love 🥰
They have a huge selection of children's and young adult books! 😀 📚📚📚📚
They even have a wardrobe with a lamp-post so I could pretend to be in Narnia!!!
I really recommend you pop in! 😀 📖📕📖📗📖📒📖
Let me say this clearly, because it needs saying in July.
Schools are closed. Teachers are resting. The reading records have stopped.
But the librarians are still there.
Running the summer challenge. Stamping the cards. Finding the next book for the child who just finished one.
For six weeks every summer, librarians are the entire reading system.
They hold it together, quietly, on reduced budgets, and they have done it for generations.
I thank every librarian working this summer. You are the difference.
@frankcottrell_b You've done an amazing job! I've loved the way you've given children's books such a high profile, on TV, radio and all over the country. Absolutely brilliant work. Thank you!
@frankcottrell_b You are truly inspiring, your infectious enthusiasm and joy for books is a wonderful thing and we know this will continue beyond the official title 🤩
@frankcottrell_b@AmandaPCraig Thankyou for all you’ve done for children, little ‘uns and big ‘uns, for those who are often overlooked or ignored, and for spreading the joy, importance and value of reading. You’ve been a fantastic laureate and we are all lucky to have you. 🥰xxx
🎪🥳THREE DAYS TO GO! 🥳🎪
The UK's biggest kids' book festival is THIS WEEKEND Sat 27 & Sun 28 June with ALL your fave authors & illustrators + 100% FREE stuff to do and it's never too late to join in the fun!*
*Until Monday 29 June!😜BOOK TODAY! https://t.co/W8NmxhN2HX
Research shows that children who grow up with rhyme and rhythm find learning to read easier. It helps them hear the patterns inside words... which is one of the real building blocks of reading. So that bedtime story is doing more than you think. 📖🌙
Do your little ones have a favourite book you've read so many times you know it off by heart?
The librarian who fights to keep their library open is doing something extra special for their community. Libraries are an important part of a town, city or school. We should all be angry when they are closed. Those books are gateways to other worlds, new knowledge and places that the reader might never have known about. I want to thank all the amazing librarians out there. We see you.