World Book Day (2026)

We are the first Thursday of March, so today is World Book Day. It's celebrated a lot here, at least at school, where many special activities are made. As I love reading, I try to commemorate it every year on this blog. And by trying to read more than usual AND making Wolfie read more too. He should come back home with a voucher to spend in a bookshop. A good excuse as any to visit our local one this weekend, or maybe even tomorrow afternoon. And you, what do you do for World Book Day? Anything at all?

World Book Day, 2025

Today is World Book Day, something I try to comment on every year on this blog. It's held the first Thursday of March. If you have a child of school age in England, you must know World Book Day is a big deal here, because it promotes literacy and education. Pupils go to school wearing disguises of characters, special activitiesare organised by libraries and bookshops, etc. I hope Wolfie comes back from school with a voucher, that would be a good excuse to visit the local bookshop at some point this weekend. Not that I need an excuse, mind you, but it's nice to have an extra motivation. In any case, happy World Book Day everyone and tell me how you celebrate it.

World Book Day

 It is World Book Day today, which I try to celebrate every year. I Wolfie celebrates it at school by dressing up, it's a special tradition they have in this country (and elsewhere?). I hope he gets back home with a book token to be spent in the local bookshop, like last year. That would be great. Wolfie is going to school dressed up as a king. Maybe King Arthur, maybe not, don't ask me why, but I do suspect the Arthurian legend sort of influenced him, as I did tell him about it recently and he got quite curious. We have a few books about which I intend to read them with him.

World Book Day

 It was World Book Day today, which of course promotes reading. So here children went to school disguised as book characters. Wolfie went to school disguised as a Dalmatian. As per, well, you might have an idea. We might go to the local bokshop this weekend and buy a book or two. And English Heritage shared an article about historical places with literary links, which I thoroughly enjoyed and I am sharing it now. If you're wondering what to read where, this is the article for you. Anyway, I try to commemorate it every year, as I love all things books and literature.

The £1.00 book voucher

It was World Book Day today, one of these cool special days which I love because it promotes reading. It is named "World" Book Day, but it truly is something limited to the UK and Ireland. They make a big fuss about it in schools here, which is great.  I wish I had something like this when I was growing up. So Wolfie today got home with a £1.00 book voucher. I hope he can spend it in the local bookshop and not a big chain. So I guess I know where we will be heading this weekend.

World Book Day

Here is a quick reminder for those who did not know (I tend to forget myself): today is the first Thursday of March, so it is World Book Day. To celebrate, please read a book or more, alone or with loved ones. For more specific suggestions, please read this blog post from Penguin Publishing, where I took this image. And if, like me, you have been struggling to read as regularly as you used to, this article might help. In any case, happy World Book Day to all my readers.

A (future) visit to the bookshop

I missed World Book Day yesterday, or at least could not blog about it in time, too busy with other things. But I read as usual, so nothing was lost. And, more importantly, for me every day is World Book Day. And I will celebrate it belatedly by going to the local bookshop and buying a few books. The local bookshop, or another one, for instance the Wallingford Bookshop, which I have not visited in a long while. I have been wanting to correct this. Like the local one, it is an independent bookshop and I always find something new and unexpected there that I want. If it wasn't for the bookshop we have in our town, we would be visiting Wallingford more often.

A bookworm's Saturday

I did not want to go out today and I barely did. I know what I said about walking nowhere, but after a search today on the net there was no nowhere nearby that inspired me enough, no little village I wanted to see, or maybe I was just too tired. I feel like an hermit anyway these days. I say hermit, but it is maybe more a monk, as I have decided stay in and read. I went out once today, but it was to visit the local library and get some more books, among them a book about Stonehenge, just because. I love just stumbling on some random work and just get it. However small is the local library, I love re-exploring it. I am a bookworm, sometimes a caricature of one: the glasses, the slight frowning when I read, the trepidation when I am looking at bookshelves. I feel very much like one today.

Circumstances seem to favour my natural state of mind: last Thursday was the World Book Day and there are still loads of programs that is celebrating it on the BBC. I am not reading anything profound at the moment, not great classic or obscure masterpieces, but I read. And I enjoy it tremendously.