About Us
World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and reading. We are a charity that operates in the UK and Ireland. We will next be celebrating World Book Day on 6 March 2025.
Our vision
More children, from all backgrounds, developing a life-long habit of reading for pleasure, benefiting from the improved life chances this brings them.
Our mission
To promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own
Our Strategy
The strategy has been developed following conversations with a range of World Book Day’s stakeholders; publishers, bookshops, schools, libraries, other literacy and reading charities.
Our Approach and the evidence behind it
World Book Day has engaged with research on Reading for Pleasure to ensure our work supports developing a Reading for Pleasure habit. Introducing the 6 elements to building a reading Superpower.
Our impact
Our mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own.
Read more about the difference World Book Day makes.
Who we work with
We work with a range of different organisations who help support our mission including publishers, commercial organisations, charities and not for profits and more. Find out who we work with here.
Our Trustees
Meet the World Book Day trustees who support our charity as we encourage even more children to read for pleasure.
Our Team
Meet the team behind World Book Day, working to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own.
Our Strategic Advisory Group
We work with out Strategic Advisory Group to develop our impact, including key figures from bookselling, publishing, reading and literacy charities, schools and libraries.
Contact Us
If you wish to contact us with a query about your World Book Day registration or the World Book Day packs and tokens, please email [email protected]
For any general questions, thoughts or ideas about World Book Day please refer to our FAQ’s before getting in touch with us at [email protected]
For all media enquiries, please contact [email protected]
