Educators
Welcome to our educators hub where you can find everything you need to support reading for pleasure all year round.
£1/€1.50 BOOKS
Check out the full line up for the 2025 World Book Day £1/€1.50 book titles!
Children and young people can choose one of the £1/€1.50 books FREE with their £1/€1.50 token.
We worked with 10 schools this year to help us decide the 2025 selection of £1/€1.50 books.
Registration
Registration for World Book Day 2025 is open!
If you would like to check your school’s registration status, we recommend contacting [email protected].
Home Educators and Childminders
We no longer require you to send in a stamped envelope.
Please sign up here to receive a digital token pack.
Alternatively, we will be sharing our digital token in January.
Explore our Reading for Pleasure resources
World Book Day supports you to encourage reading for pleasure with
evidence-based resources, tips and ideas that can also be used all year round.
Our resources suggest impactful ways to promote a reading for pleasure culture in your setting with fun, inclusive activities that everyone can enjoy, regardless of household income.
Our Activity Bank is also now open. Explore ideas from partners and practitioners which support our 6 elements of Reading for Pleasure and share your own.
Overcoming the Barriers to Reading for Pleasure
Reading for Pleasure, as reported by NLT, declined still further in 2023. World Book Day have also been carrying out work on identifying the specific barriers for children in seeing themselves as readers and choosing to do it in their free time. Most recently we have carried out research with Beano Brain to speak directly to children aged 7-14 about their feelings around reading for pleasure.
World Book Day and the Reading for Pleasure team at The Open University have worked with practitioners to develop a series of reflective conversations with practitioners exploring how we might address the barriers in the classroom.
Join us for this VLOG and webinar series.
Use World Book Day to share and discover books
We have some fantastic resources to support your children and young people to discover and talk about their favourite books.
Whether it’s how to choose a new book using our Reading Recommendations, planning and running a Book Club with their friends or snuggling down with one of our read along video stories we’ve got something for everyone.
MC Grammar is the creation of award-winning teacher and rapper Jacob Mitchell. Having struggled in school himself, he credits his discovery of books as his turning point with education.
MC Grammar is a proud ambassador of World Book Day and says: “Mixing the power of music with the magic of books is the coolest combination and an incredible opportunity to get kids excited about books and reading.”
Enjoy MC Grammar’s songs and explore our pack which is full of ideas to explore all the songs and even write your own!
MC Grammar’s World Book Day SongsAll our resources support our evidence informed 6 elements of Reading for Pleasure.
Being read to regularly
Having books at home and at school
Having a choice in what to read
Finding time to read
Having trusted help to find a book
Making reading FUN!
Our Approach
Please share your ideas and discover those from other practitioners by using our Activity Bank.
Activity Bank
