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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]
World Book Day (UK and Ireland) World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March. On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK and the Republic of Ireland is provided with a voucher to be spent on books; the event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1998.
James Bowen (author) James Anthony Bowen (born 15 March 1979) [1][2] is an English author based in London. His memoirs A Street Cat Named Bob, The World According to Bob and A Gift from Bob, written with Garry Jenkins, [3] were international best-sellers. A film based on the first two books was released in 2016 and a sequel was released in 2020.
The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still provides a print edition. [2]
Room on the Broom Song (picture book) by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan) Jungle Jingles by Dick King-Smith (Corgi) Viking at School by Jeremy Strong (Puffin) Stealer of Souls by Diana Wynne Jones (Collins) Where Your Wings Were by David Almond (Hodder)
Bookclub is a monthly programme, devised by Olivia Seligman and hosted by Jim Naughtie and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Each month a novel is selected, and its author invited to discuss it. The title of the chosen work for the next recording is announced at the end of each broadcast; this allows listeners to read the book in advance, and those who ...
www.ken-follett.com. Kenneth Martin Follett, CBE, FRSL [1][2] (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works. [3] Follett's commercial breakthrough came with the spy thriller Eye of the Needle (1978). After writing more best-sellers in the genre in the 1980s, he ...
Frequency. annual. Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, [1] draws attention to banned and challenged books, [2] and highlights persecuted individuals. Held in late September or early October since 1982, the United States ...