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.