Children set to celebratetheir love of reading books

Children from schools across Hastings and Rother will be celebrating their love of reading and books by taking part in World Book Day.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Feb 2017, 09:29 BST
Updated 28th Feb 2017, 12:44 BST

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poss comm Calling young writers - pen a hero animal story and win! PDSA writing competition now open Image attachments: Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey.jpg world book day logo.png Hilary Robinson 2014.jpg Emily Malcolm malcolm.emily@pdsa.org.uk 01952 797 231 PDSA Press Office pr@pdsa.org.uk 01952 797 234 www.pdsa.org.uk To celebrate World Book Days 20th anniversary (2 March) vet charity PDSA has teamed up with award-winning childrens writer Hilary Robinson to launch its annual writing competition. The competition is open to budding young writers, aged 16 or under, and this years theme is Animal Heroes. This coincides with Hilarys latest book Flo of the Somme, which tells the story of a heroic dog who worked in the WW1 battlefields, delivering medical supplies to injured soldiers. To help this years entrants, Hilary has started the story of Buddy: a pet who comes to live with twins Jess and James when their grandma moves into a care home. Its now up to the young writers to complete theposs comm Calling young writers - pen a hero animal story and win! PDSA writing competition now open Image attachments: Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey.jpg world book day logo.png Hilary Robinson 2014.jpg Emily Malcolm malcolm.emily@pdsa.org.uk 01952 797 231 PDSA Press Office pr@pdsa.org.uk 01952 797 234 www.pdsa.org.uk To celebrate World Book Days 20th anniversary (2 March) vet charity PDSA has teamed up with award-winning childrens writer Hilary Robinson to launch its annual writing competition. The competition is open to budding young writers, aged 16 or under, and this years theme is Animal Heroes. This coincides with Hilarys latest book Flo of the Somme, which tells the story of a heroic dog who worked in the WW1 battlefields, delivering medical supplies to injured soldiers. To help this years entrants, Hilary has started the story of Buddy: a pet who comes to live with twins Jess and James when their grandma moves into a care home. Its now up to the young writers to complete the
poss comm Calling young writers - pen a hero animal story and win! PDSA writing competition now open Image attachments: Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey.jpg world book day logo.png Hilary Robinson 2014.jpg Emily Malcolm [email protected] 01952 797 231 PDSA Press Office [email protected] 01952 797 234 www.pdsa.org.uk To celebrate World Book Days 20th anniversary (2 March) vet charity PDSA has teamed up with award-winning childrens writer Hilary Robinson to launch its annual writing competition. The competition is open to budding young writers, aged 16 or under, and this years theme is Animal Heroes. This coincides with Hilarys latest book Flo of the Somme, which tells the story of a heroic dog who worked in the WW1 battlefields, delivering medical supplies to injured soldiers. To help this years entrants, Hilary has started the story of Buddy: a pet who comes to live with twins Jess and James when their grandma moves into a care home. Its now up to the young writers to complete the

Many schools will be holding events where children will dress up as their favourite characters from books.

World Book Day marks its 20th anniversary this year and organisers say the event is ‘a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and, most importantly, reading’.

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The main aim of World Book Day is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own.

Schools and nurseries will be sent packs of Book Tokens and age-ranged World Book Day Resource Packs full of ideas and activities, display material and more information about how to get involved in World Book Day.

Thanks to the generosity of National Book Tokens Ltd some 15 million book tokens will be distributed.

Children can take their voucher to a local bookseller and use it to pick one of ten exclusive, new and completely free books.

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Or, if they’d rather, they can use it to get £1 off any book or audio book costing over £2.99 at a participating bookshop or book club.

A spokesperson said: “It’s all about getting kids closer to the books and authors they already love, and letting them discover more books and authors they’ll love every bit as much in the future.”

If you are holding events for World Book Day we want to hear from you. Send us your pictures and reports and we will do our best to feature them in the paper.

There are lots of ideas and resources for taking part in World Book Day, on the website at www.worldbookday.com.

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