World Book Day 2016 takes place on Thursday 3rd March, a day to celebrate the wonderful world of books and authors. Books have a way of touching our lives, starting from when little ones are just starting to read like Tigger who is now seeing the world differently now that he can read. Moving on to Roo, the child who likes to read and is loving the different worlds that are created within the pages of her story books. To the adult who likes to find new novels to read but will always go back to the classics that she loves.
Celebrating World Book Day – Star Wars style
This World Book Day we are celebrating Star Wars style, with new Egmont Star Wars books to read and interactive with along with creating Star Wars costumes.
Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space
Released last month the new Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space books were released and alongside The Snare and The Nest, The Escape has been announced as one of this year’s World Book Day £1.00 book choices – making the book a popular choice for all Star Wars fans who are keen to get in on the new Star Wars: Aventures in Wild Space action.
Star Wars: Doodle book
The Star Wars: Doodle book offers that creative outlet for any Star Wars fan, full of different activities from colouring and design it is sure to keep them entertained. At just £5.00 is offers great value too!
Star Wars Starfighter Workshop: Make Your Own X-Wing and Tie Fighter
What better way to celebrate World Book Day with Sa Star Wars theme than make your own X-Wing and Tie Fighter. This Fabulous book comes complete with foam pieces to make your own Star Wars starfighters, along with instructions and other activities to keep the kiddies occupied. Priced at just £4.00 it makes a great creative book for world Book Day.
Star Wars Blog Book Tour
Please pop along to Emmy’s Mummy to see how she is celebrating World Book Day and having fun with Star Wars books.
How to make last-minute Star Wars costumes
A combination of last-minute notifications from the school and a dash of procrastination means that World Book Day costumes are a last-minute affair. So I wanted to show you how to make last-minute Star Wars costumes using items from around the home. They are all centred around printable Star Wars masks which you can simply print off, stick on a piece of cardboard to add some rigidity to it or laminate like I did.
Darth Vader
- Black long-sleeved top, trousers and shoes
- Darth Vader printable Star Wars mask
- Black bag or towel to make the cape
- Lightsaber – we just used a light stick we had from a fireworks display but you could make your own using the tube found inside wrapping paper which you could then paint red and black
Stormtrooper
- White long-sleeved top and trousers
- Stormtrooper printable Star Wars mask
Chewbacca
- Brown long-sleeved top and trousers or a blanket wrapped round and tied around the waist
- Chewbacca printable Star Wars mask
Giveaway
To celebrate World Book Day, Boo Roo and Tigger Too have teamed up with Egmont to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a set of three Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space books.
To enter, simply leave me a comment telling me what your favourite book is, then complete the Gleam widget below:
Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space books
Disclosure: This post is in collaboration with Egmont
The nest book looks good.
The Escape looks fun
The escape sounds great
Leave me a comment telling me what your favourite book is . . . . . . . Well l like Clan of the Cave Bear, but Jake likes The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Little house on the prairie
The escape sounds good to me
the boy in the striped pyjamas
Mine is Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
The Escape looks good. We are reading all the How to Train Your Dragon books.
I like my sisters keeper!
Love Neverending Story
The Escape looks great x
The doodle book
The doodles book looks fun, my favourite book is pride and prejudice
I loved the Secret Seven books when I was a child, my son Connor is 11 and loves Horrid Henry, Monster Island, and of course Star Wars xxx
The Escape is my favourite
Stephen King – Misery
To kill a mockingbird 🙂
My grandson likes the sound of The Snare.
I love the BFG
I love reading the gruffalo to my son
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Lovely Bones. Always a good read to come back and revisit
virginia andres flowers in the attic
My favourite is Pride and Prejudice.
My son loves all the Tom Gate books
The white queen by phillipa Gregory xxx
Harry Potter believe it or not)
My favourite book is A Thousand Splendid Suns, I recommend it to everyone, absolutely breathtaking story. My son loves anything to do with Roald Dahl or the Diary of A Wimpy Kid books… oh and his minecraft manual.
My personal favourite book is Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews.
Childhood book has to be The Witches by Roald Dahl
My favourite book is A Suitable Boy by Vikram Set, an amazing read. I am so glad my 4 year old daughter also has inherited my love of books. She doesn’t have a favourite book but loves to read and to be read to.
My favourite book is Jane Eyre.
i love great expectations
Going postal by Terry Pratchet
I like the sound of the Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space
my eldest is loving the beast quest series
A recent read The Health Gap by Michael Marmot.
My eldest loves Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid and my youngest loves Beano albums 🙂 x
I love ‘The Long Walk’ By Stephen King, it was a life changing book for me, I read it at 15, and it really changed the way I thought about things
Little Women, a classic
Five Go to Mystery Moor
my favourite book is sophies world 🙂
Alice in Wonderland was my favourite when I was little and is my favourite again now that I’m reading it to my children x
I love the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, amazing storytelling.
My favourite book is Charlottes Web
I like Josephine Cox books, grandsons is any Horrid Henry
The Little House series, especially These Happy Golden Years.
I do love Vanity Fair by Thackerey 🙂
I really enjoyed the Harry Potter series and recently read them again so that has to be one of my favourites. My all time favourite has to be the Chronicles of Narnia, loved them as a kid and still do. 🙂
to kill a mockingbird
My favourite book is a beautifully illustrated copy of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ that my dad bought me when I was little. Staying with that theme of wonderfully illustrated children’s books my little lad’s favourite is ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. x
The Harry Potter series.
The Gruffalo, which is lucky as my son wants it read to him every night
i like the peter rabbit books think they are fantastic x
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
room on the broom
The Faraway Tree
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evankovich
Harry Potter books
The faraway tree
i love Peter Rabbit
Stick Man – My little boy LOVES it!
Love The Gruffalo
My favourite book is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey.
Love the Worst Witch books
I love anything by Clive Cussler
Dan Browns the da vinchi code
The Snow Goose
Fantastic Mr Fox
Clan of the Cave Bear x
the adventures of tin tin
Catch 22. It always makes me think.
The Bridges of Madison County x
My favourite book was notebook Nicholas sparks
The Harry Potter series.
The Faraway Tree Enid Blyton
choke by chuck palahniuk
the gift by danielle steel
The silver chair by C S Lewis
It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet by James Herriot is my favourite book.
memories of geisha
I love the Harry Potter boks
Loved all Jane Austen Books .
I love the lord of the rings
I love Danielle Steel books
I’m afraid I don’t have a favourite as there are so many that have left a lasting impression on me. The book I have enjoyed most this year was ‘The Lake House’ by Kate Morton 🙂
A graphic novel called The Gigantic Bears that was evi;
I love Patricia Cornwall books. Myboys I’ve the Julia Donaldson books….we all love books 🙂
Heir to the empire by Timothy Zahn
Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series – great books
As a child I loved Noddy, but now i’m into Jack Reacher (Lee Child) crime series.
The Beach by Alex Garland
Pride & Prejustice by Jane Austin
Mine is still Matilda
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
The Hobbit – great book
Alice in wonderland
Winnie The Pooh
I really enjoyed reading the Virginia Andrew books. A Piece of cake by Cupcake Brown is a great read too.
The Hobbit – Fantastic book all these years later.
My favourite book is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 🙂
One fine day in the middle of the night – Chris Brookmyre
the secret garden
At the moment it is the throne of glass series by sarah j mass
Disclaimed – Renee Knight or Mr Forgetful when reading with my 4 year old!
The Witches by Roald Dahl
2001: A Space Oddesey
can’t beat the Harry potter series!
I’m not much of a reader myself but I love reading with my kids, the very hungry caterpillar is one of my all time faves 😀
mine is fever pitch, the boys love the jungle crew
The Faraway Tree Stories – Enid Blyton
I like Shogun by James Clavell
Ferney by james long
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
The Secret Garden
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
My fav book is the hobbit
anything by Marian keys xx
The Enchanted Wood. Enid Blyton. Ive already bought my 11 month old all the stories (the faraway tree etc). I cant wait til she is old enough to read them.
little women x
my favourite books when growing up where enid blyton and i loved the farway tree
I love the true blood series of books
tom’s midnight garden
any enid blyton books
Charlie and the chocolate factory
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
my family and other animals gerald durrell
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
The secret seven and garfield xx
My son and I have read the Harry Potter series of books many times. My son has Asperger’s so we both have to be reading the same book at the same time (we have 2 copies of each!) then after all the books have been read, we have to watch the films, all in one day!!
I love The Shopoholic series by Sophie Kinsella 🙂
I love reading and finding books my son loves is hard but finding these books on your blog has opened an interest in him !! Someone is off to whsmith tomorrow
The Harry potter book
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Passage, by Justin Cronin
Good Night Mr Tom
The Magic Faraway Tree
My favourite book is The Hobbit 🙂
my favourite book is Kez
The Discworld series by Terry Prtchett