Booksellers
How to get involved with World Book Day.
Booksellers are a big part of what makes World Book Day special. Over 3,500 booksellers participate every year.
Through your relationships with schools and local community organisations, you make sure that reading is for everyone, and that more children become readers, improving their life chances. By participating in World Book Day you’re helping to create the readers of the future.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at [email protected].
WORLD BOOK DAY BOOKSELLER TOOLKIT
The World Book Day 2025 toolkit is available to download below.
BOOKSELLER WEBINAR
Our bookseller webinar will be on Thursday 16 January at 10am. Sign up to hear from the World Book Day team about the Read Your Way campaign and fellow booksellers about how to engage with your local community and make your celebrations a success plus your chance to ask questions.
EVENT GUIDE
Download the event guide here
RETAILERS GUIDE
Download our retailers guide here
2025 Bookseller Toolkit
Ordering your materials
ORDERING £1/€1.50 BOOKS
If you’re an independent bookshop, it’s likely that Gardners will be the best route for ordering books. Gardners set the 31 October as the ordering deadline for guaranteed fulfilment. If you’re ordering in Ireland, you can order from Gill distribution or from Argosy Books and if you’re in Wales you can order from the Books Council of Wales.
ORDERING DUMPBINS AND POS
If you would like to order a dumpbin, poster and window sticker please fill in this form here by 31 October 2024.
Any requests after this date may be unable to be fulfilled.
2025 Books Presenter
£1/€1.50 books and £1/€1.50 token
As well as holding amazing celebrations for World Book Day, bookshops help create the £1/€1.50 token and £1/€1.50 book exchange that is so important to World Book Day and to children in the UK and Ireland. You give children the chance to experience choosing and owning a book – for free.
World Book Day works with publishers to produce the £1/€1.50 books. Booksellers buy the books and gift them to children in exchange for the £1/€1.50 token. Children are encouraged to take their £1/€1.50 token to their nearest participating bookseller. You also provide a brilliant way for children, young people and families to discover reading recommendations and to enjoy events with authors and illustrators.
The World Book Day £1/€1.50 books for 2025 are here! Find out more about our chosen titles here. The token redemption period for World Book Day 2025 is from Thursday 13 February – Sunday 23 March 2025.
Click here for the Terms & Conditions for participating in World Book Day.
2025's £1/€1.50 booksParticipating Retailers Map
If you’d like to..
- Join our participating retailers map
- Be removed from our participating retailers map
- Amend your details on our participating retailers map
Please fill in this form
YOUR EVENTS
Booksellers run amazing World Book Day events to encourage families to love reading. Please add your events to our map so that we can help more children and young people to enjoy them.
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