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World Book Day 2025

World Book Day is on 6 March 2025.

You can find our resources, events and webinars below.

Registration for World Book Day 2025 is now closed. To check your school’s registration status contact [email protected].

2025's £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.

 

Resources

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Take World Book Day outside this year with resources from our partners at Jigsaw Education Group

Jigsaw has created an engaging pack of FREE resources for Primary and Secondary settings as an extension of the Jigsaw Outdoors programme, combining reading, play, and nature to bring books to life in innovative and inclusive ways using sticks, shadows, and other natural materials.

Resources from partners

Explore great resources from our partners below to help encourage children to read for fun.

Explore our full range of 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 Songs

All 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