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World of Stories

Welcome to World Book Day’s World of Stories, where you can listen to audio excerpts, of your favourite books!

We’ve got excerpts of Hugless Douglas and Aliens Love Underpants in the picture books category, favourites for younger readers from Jill Murphy and Roald Dahl, A Monster Calls and How to Train your Dragon in the fiction category, and Malorie Blackman, and Holly Smale for teen readers. All read by celebrities such as Joanna Lumley, Martin Clunes, David Walliams, Rik Mayall, and many, many more.

Please choose a category

Picture Books
Young Fiction
Fiction
Teen

Picture Books

Where Are You Blue Kangaroo?
Read by

Joanna Lumley

Meerkat Mail
Read by

John Sessions

Aliens Love Underpants
Read by

Rik Mayall

The Hueys in the New Jumper
Read by

Jarvis Cocker

Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar
Read by

Lenny Henry

Hugless Douglas
Read by

Alan Davies

Five Minutes’ Peace
Read by

Miriam Margoyles

Winnie the Witch: Winnie and Wilbur
Read by

Berny Stringle

The Giant of Jum
Read by

Stephen Mangan

Young Fiction

The Famous Five: Five on a Treasure Island
Read by

Jan Francis

Paddington Takes the Test
Read by

Hugh Bonneville

The Diary of Dennis the Menace
Read by

Steven Butler

The Bolds
Read by

Julian Clary

Revolting Rhymes
Read by

Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Grieg

Marge in Charge
Read by

Isla Fisher

Flying Fergus: The Best Birthday Bike
Read by

Chris Hoy

The Worst Witch
Read by

Gemma Arteton

The Hundred Mile-an-Hour Dog
Read by

Martin Clunes

Fiction

Skellig
Read by

David Almond

How to Train Your Dragon
Read by

David Tennant

George’s Marvellous Medicine
Read by

Derek Jacobi

Darcy Burdock
Read by

Laura Dockrill

A Monster Calls
Read by

Jason Isaacs

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
Read by

Ronni Ancona

Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief
Read by

Jesse Bernstein

Rooftoppers
Read by

Gordon Griffiths

Murder Most Unladylike
Read by

Gemma Chan

Grandpa’s Great Escape
Read by

David Walliams, Nitin Ganatra and Michael Gambon

Teen

Noughts and Crosses
Read by

Syan Blake and Paul Chequer

Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Read by

Ari Graynor

The Hunger Games
Read by

Carolyn McCormick

Maggot Moon
Read by

Robert Madge

Half Bad
Read by

Carl Prekopp

The Lie Tree
Read by

Emilia Fox

CHERUB: The Recruit
Read by

Simon Scardifield

How I Live Now
Read by

Amber Sealey

Geek Girl
Read by

Katy Sobey

Am I Normal Yet?
Read by

Charlie Sanderson

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