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Home / Tips & ideas / Seasonal / World Book Night

World Book Night

April 23, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 3 Comments

kids readingI just found out that it’s World Book Night, and that’s made me really happy because:

  • a kind lady gave me a new book to read which I have never read and think I will love (The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho);
  • on the back of the book it says ‘This book is a gift. It is one of a million which is being given as part of World Book Night 2012 to spread the joy and love of reading. You can enjoy it and pass it on and still keep it with you. All you have to do is read it. Once you have, the story is yours forever’;
  • nobody has asked anyone in the family to dress up as a book character;
  • nobody has asked me to make or buy a costume;
  • nobody has asked me to make my children swap some of their books for someone else’s;
  • I will not have to squeeze into a room with 500 other parents and children at the end of the school day while my son persuades me to pay for an overpriced sticker album from the fundraising ‘book’ fair.

So thank you for the lovely book, World Book Night. Once I’ve read it, I will go to www.worldbooknight.org and register its serial number so that I can keep track of how far it travels once I pass it on. But can you please have a word with World Book Day because I think it needs to calm down and could learn a thing or two from you?

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Categories: Seasonal
Tags: book characters, book fair, books, kids, kids fancy dress, mums, reading, World Book Day, World Book Night, worldbooknight

About Gretta Schifano

I'm a freelance journalist and blogger specialising in family travel with teenagers, trips when parents manage to travel without their kids, and 50+ travel. I also write about vegetarian travel, parenting teenagers, adoption, SEN, ADHD and anxiety. My work's been published by the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet and others. I've lived and worked in Italy and Spain and am now based in rural south-east England with my husband, adoptive and birth kids and our dog. I previously worked as a social action radio producer for the BBC.

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  1. Gretta says

    April 23, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    World Book Day, as played out in schools, is a flipping pain. But it’s good business for the fancy dress suppliers.

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  2. Lorenza Bacino says

    April 23, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    It is a beautiful story. Another one I can recommend that will be yours forever is ‘The Little Prince’, allegedly for kids but not really – enjoy. And I hate World Book Day too, but I LOVE books

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    • Gretta says

      July 20, 2012 at 4:15 pm

      I’ll put it on my list – thanks for the recommendation.

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