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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.
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]
The World Book Capital programme during the year 2011 was held in Buenos Aires in Argentina. The project unit "Unidad de Proyectos Buenos Aires Capital Mundial de Libro" was created especially for the occasion and was run by Luciana Blasco. [41] The three pillars of the Buenos Aires 2011 World book Capital were: The promotion of books
All World Book Day point of sale and the £1 book carried the special World Book Day logo to help unify the initiative through all outlets. Since then, World Book Day UK has followed a similar pattern, gradually growing each year to encompass more initiatives, such as Spread The Word, Quick Reads Initiative and Books for Hospitals. Every year ...
A Banned Books Week "read out" at Shimer College. The event has been held during the last full week of September since 1982. [13] Banned Books Week is intended to encourage readers to examine challenged literary works and to promote intellectual freedom in libraries, schools, and bookstores.
A sign at a park featuring Irasutoya illustrations. In addition to typical clip art topics, unusual occupations such as nosmiologists, airport bird patrollers, and foresters are depicted, as are special machines like miso soup dispensers, centrifuges, transmission electron microscopes, obscure musical instruments (didgeridoo, zampoña, cor anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such ...
Hugo finds a book titled The Invention of Dreams with a drawing of the automaton, which he learns is a scene from the first movie his father ever saw, A Trip to the Moon, directed by Georges Méliès. Hugo invites Etienne and the book's author, René Tabard, to Isabelle's house later, and explains Méliès’ career to Isabelle.
A 2011 Notable Children's Book in the English Language Arts [citation needed] Top 10 Book of the Year for Shelf Awareness [citation needed] Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choice of 2011 [4] 2011 IRA Teachers' Choice Book [citation needed] 2011 IRA Young Adult's Choice [citation needed] 2013 Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grade) [5]