All Dressed Up for World Book Day – 100,000 costumes to give away!

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World Book Day, Rubies and Parentkind are teaming up to give more children the opportunity of dressing up for World Book Day, to find the fun in reading.

World Book Day is all about the fun of reading – because it seriously improves lives. Dressing up is a great way to encourage children to enjoy reading. It’s a creative way to express what they like about reading, it sparks imagination and makes reading sociable and fun.

Rubies are aiming to give up to 100,000 costumes away, that’s up to £1 million in value, to disadvantaged children.

Parentkind are encouraging PTAs and schools with over 25% free school meal provision to sign up to get a dressing up box for their school, to use on World Book Day and beyond.

PTAs and Schools which successfully receive a donation are encouraged to donate £1 a costume to the charity World Book Day, to support them to get more children involved in the fun of reading.

World Book Day is offering PTAs the opportunity to use its annual event to fundraise for books and other reading resources – to support children’s reading enjoyment all year round.

Let’s get All Dressed Up to give more children the benefits of reading for fun.

For PTAs and Schools who would like to sign up —

Click here to find out more and request your dressing up box

If you do not have a PTA in your school you can apply to be a member here. You can then sign up to request your dressing up box in the link above.

Dressing up? It’s up to you! There are lots of ways to encourage children to read for fun. We share great low-cost ideas that can be adapted for nearly every character on our dressing up page as well as other alternatives for your World Book Day celebrations.