The Girl Who Thought She Was a Dog: World Book Day 2018

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Being an Ally: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again, Shakirah Bourne (she/her), Dana Alison Levy (she/her) (Co-editors), DK Look through EVERYONE'S wardrobes. Dad's tie may make a great Penny Crayon costume and an apron could be fashioned into an Alice in Wonderland dress. Since it was first celebrated in the UK and Ireland over 25 years ago, the day has grown to become an essential calendar fixture for schools, settings and communities. It provides a fantastic opportunity to focus on reading for pleasure, supporting children's autonomy in book choice, and embedding a habit of reading that brings a wide range of benefits. It provides a fantastic opportunity to focus on reading for pleasure, supporting children's autonomy in book choice, and embedding a habit of reading that brings a wide range of benefits." Wherever you are on the social spectrum, this is an essential investigation into our society's most intractable problem. We have more power than we realise to change things for the better.

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Why we like this book: Like its predecessors, Oi Frog! and Oi Dog!, the rhymes in this book never fail to make us giggle. “It’s very funny,” says Flora. “You learn rhymes you never thought of.” Secondary students can plan their own World Book Day events and win book tokens for their library by sharing their case studies with us. Spending just 10 minutes a day reading and sharing stories with children can make a crucial difference to their future success and it’s fun for all involved. Get creative with cardboard. There's almost nothing you can't make with some cardboard, scissors, and a good idea.

We're hugely excited to have worked with our friends at World Book Day, the charity whose mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. The first World Book Day in the UK and Ireland took place in 1997 to encourage young people to discover the pleasure of reading. Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… They have online activities, free audiobooks, YouTube videos, reading recommendations and author and illustrator academy videos. These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.Disney characters can have some simple and easy-to-copy outfits, and most of them are based on books. The aim of World Book Day is to get children of all ages to come together and share the joy of reading. Since seeking asylum in the UK, Hassan's unshakeable instinct to raise awareness, help and connect, has seen him share not only his experience as a refugee, but to the coronavirus pandemic. Hassan documented his work as a cleaner on a London hospital Covid-19 ward. His photographs and advocacy shone a spotlight on the often overlooked NHS cleaners and porters, instigated a U-turn on a government bill that had excluded their families from the bereavement compensation scheme and co-directed Convergence, a Netflix documentary paying tribute to the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Hazel Tree Farm: One Stormy Night, Alma Jordan, Margaret Anne Suggs, The O'Brien Press (IRELAND ONLY) Adapt a PE or sports kit, or their school uniform - think Football Academy for sports kit, Harry Potter and St Trinian's for the uniform.