Mar. 7th, 2022 at 7:00 PM
World Book Day Roundup 2022
It's the World Book Day roundup! After two years of virtual events and last-minute cancellations, it was great to be able to have a real, live, in-person Book Day again! I always absolutely adore seeing people dressing up as characters in our books, and this year there were some crackers! Check out this brilliant Poglite costume tweeted by Jessica Felton (@PrettyCrochet), the spoon-loving aliens from our Reeve & McIntyre book Cakes in Space! The chimeypot neckwrap is excellent, and note the fine utility belt. :D
And check out the ingenuity of this Rambling Island - Cliff - from Oliver and the Seawigs, tweeted by Rachel East (@RachelEast13). Love all the Seawig details!
And some Grumpycorns! (The second photo of Lily was sent into the Worksop Guardian.)
It's not only exciting because of the dressing-up aspect, it's wonderful to see children engaging with books they love and imagining themselves as characters in them. Here's one of the Pugs of the Frozen North, and Beyoncé, one of the guinea pig rascal duo in our Kevin books.
Some schools encouraged children to dress up spuds instead of themselves:
For my World Book Day school visit, I went to Channing Junior School in Highgate, in London. I took the gig a couple years ago, deep in Covid Lockdown, when the only cafe open was the open-air place in our local park. I ran into a librarian, Caroline Jupp, whom I knew way back from the days I ran an art gallery in Camberwell with some friends; she asked me if I'd visit her school for World Book Day. Lockdowns seemed to go on forever, and finally when it came time for my World Book Day visit, London wasn't local anymore! I'd moved to Devon. But my fabulous author friend Candy Gourlay put me up, and even gave me a lift to school on the day of the Tube strike, so huge thanks to Candy! Do check out Candy's books, they're ace.
Channing Librarian Caroline Jupp had made a great Hungry Caterpillar costume! And here's a picture of us in action, by one of the teachers.
It was great to get some parent feedback afterward!
And the costumes were terrific. Look, here's a teacher as a Biscuit Bandit, from our Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit!! And a great wall display in her classroom, too!
Here's Caroline with the Head, Mrs Hughes, dressed as a Flamingo, and some more ace teacher costumes: Elmer the Elephant from the David McKee books, the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz, and Paddington Bear.
Each classroom had a book-themed wall display:
Some of the Illustration Club's artists had made World Book Day posters - here's a Grumpycorn poster:
Thanks so much for inviting me to Channing, Caroline, and to everyone who drew pictures with me!
Besides an in-person visit, my co-author Philip Reeve and I also did a (pre-recorded) video virtual visit to something like 85 schools in the greater Liverpool area. They were taking part in Liverpool's 2022 Two Million Minute Challenge (which goes on until 31 March - find out more here on the Read For Good website!
It was terrific seeing feedback roll in from schools all over Liverpool! Here's a sampling:
Thanks so much to the Read for Good team and Liverpool Learning Partnership for coordinating this amazing feat of reading! I'm Patron of Read For Good and it's a wonderful charity, running city-wide Readathons and raising money to get books and storytellers to children in hospital.
And to finish, a few more glimpses into what was going on at various schools! Thanks so much to everyone who engaged with our books!
And check out the ingenuity of this Rambling Island - Cliff - from Oliver and the Seawigs, tweeted by Rachel East (@RachelEast13). Love all the Seawig details!
And some Grumpycorns! (The second photo of Lily was sent into the Worksop Guardian.)
It's not only exciting because of the dressing-up aspect, it's wonderful to see children engaging with books they love and imagining themselves as characters in them. Here's one of the Pugs of the Frozen North, and Beyoncé, one of the guinea pig rascal duo in our Kevin books.
Some schools encouraged children to dress up spuds instead of themselves:
For my World Book Day school visit, I went to Channing Junior School in Highgate, in London. I took the gig a couple years ago, deep in Covid Lockdown, when the only cafe open was the open-air place in our local park. I ran into a librarian, Caroline Jupp, whom I knew way back from the days I ran an art gallery in Camberwell with some friends; she asked me if I'd visit her school for World Book Day. Lockdowns seemed to go on forever, and finally when it came time for my World Book Day visit, London wasn't local anymore! I'd moved to Devon. But my fabulous author friend Candy Gourlay put me up, and even gave me a lift to school on the day of the Tube strike, so huge thanks to Candy! Do check out Candy's books, they're ace.
Channing Librarian Caroline Jupp had made a great Hungry Caterpillar costume! And here's a picture of us in action, by one of the teachers.
It was great to get some parent feedback afterward!
And the costumes were terrific. Look, here's a teacher as a Biscuit Bandit, from our Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit!! And a great wall display in her classroom, too!
Here's Caroline with the Head, Mrs Hughes, dressed as a Flamingo, and some more ace teacher costumes: Elmer the Elephant from the David McKee books, the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz, and Paddington Bear.
Each classroom had a book-themed wall display:
Some of the Illustration Club's artists had made World Book Day posters - here's a Grumpycorn poster:
Thanks so much for inviting me to Channing, Caroline, and to everyone who drew pictures with me!
Besides an in-person visit, my co-author Philip Reeve and I also did a (pre-recorded) video virtual visit to something like 85 schools in the greater Liverpool area. They were taking part in Liverpool's 2022 Two Million Minute Challenge (which goes on until 31 March - find out more here on the Read For Good website!
It was terrific seeing feedback roll in from schools all over Liverpool! Here's a sampling:
Thanks so much to the Read for Good team and Liverpool Learning Partnership for coordinating this amazing feat of reading! I'm Patron of Read For Good and it's a wonderful charity, running city-wide Readathons and raising money to get books and storytellers to children in hospital.
And to finish, a few more glimpses into what was going on at various schools! Thanks so much to everyone who engaged with our books!