LET’S HEAR IT FOR WORLD BOOK DAY
World Book Day® is a charity sponsored by National Book Tokens. Its catchy tagline is ‘Raising money, raising readers’, and like you I’m sure, I was raised almost religiously on a love for books. My main influence was not just my bookworm lit graduate mum, but how reading for pleasure was celebrated in school on days like World Book Day. I proudly handed my teacher the supermarket book tokens Mum would have thrust into my hand that morning, then purchased my carefully chosen £1 book (or €1.50 for our continental friends) on the big day. And for that to have resisted inflation in 25 years? Just the first of many miracles brought about by World Book Day – read on for more.
Each year on the first Thursday of March in the UK, reading for pleasure
