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In 2007, World Book Day celebrated its 10th anniversary with the publication of 10 £1/1,50€ books. Since then every child in full-time education in the UK and Ireland is entitled to receive a £1/1,50€ World Book day Book token every year.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, World Book Day is a charity event in March, held annually on the first Thursday and coinciding with the release of special editions. [10] The annual celebration on 23 April is World Book Night, an event organized by independent charity The Reading Agency. [11]
This is a list of books released for World Book Day in the UK and Ireland. In 1998 and 1999 a specially created WBD anthology priced at £ 1 ( € 1.50 in Ireland ) was published. In 2000, instead of a single £1 special anthology, four separate £1 books were published, covering a wider age-range.
Ian Maxted (ed.), Exeter Working Papers in Book History "Publications". Bibliographical Society. 6 January 2013. (Includes works about history of books in the UK) BibSite – via Bibliographical Society of America. (Includes articles on UK book history) University of London’s Society of Bibliophiles; David Finkelstein; Alistair McCleery (eds.).
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The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) is celebrating its 16th annual World Teachers' Day today on October 5, which highlights the importance of the world's ...
The Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland (BA) is a trade body founded to promote retail bookselling in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It operates the National Book Token scheme in the UK and sponsors the Whitbread Award [ 1 ] The BA represents 95% of British retail booksellers. [ 2 ]
In 1996, author Pat Mora, after learning about the annual Mexican tradition of celebrating 30 April as El día del niño, the Day of the Child, proposed an annual celebration in the U.S. of El día de los niños, El día de los libros/Children's Day, Book Day, thus honoring children and connecting them to literacy, essential in a democracy ...