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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]
Race Relations Day, 22 March; World Haemophilia Day, 17 April; April Fools' Day, 1 April; World Book Day, 23 April; Poppy Day, Friday before April 25 (Anzac Day) J Day, 3 May; Sleep Apnea Awareness Day, 5 May [4] Mother's Day, second Sunday in May; Pink Shirt Day, third Friday in May; World No Tobacco Day, 31 May; Eid al-Fitr (varies) [5] World ...
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.
At a time when books are being viewed as controversial and libraries are threatened with being shut down, reading is more important than ever.
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.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: World Kindness Week: Watch 3 moments that warmed our hearts. Show comments. ... This family spends months at sea exploring the deep ocean.
The UNESCO website uses the World Book Day name as well: , , ). The official website of the event is called World Book Day and that name appears to be more common in the net (over 2 billion results vs 727 mln, the same in books: over 17 mln vs 201,000). That satisfies WP:COMMONNAME's suggestions.
The 44m (144ft) Sea Story yacht had departed a port near Marsa Alam on Sunday for a five-day diving trip that was supposed to finish further north at the town of Hurghada. It is believed to have ...