CHILDREN will be celebrating all things literary on Thursday, March 1.
World Book Day 2018 will see sees schools and libraries up and down the country organise special events to promote reading.
Schools often encourage pupils to dress-up as their favourite literary characters and join in the celebration of authors, illustrators and story-telling.
@TheBoltonNews Alicia age 5 from smithills as The Mad Hatter pic.twitter.com/Bt5aMv5Euq
— karen lenaughan (@kazzza1979) March 1, 2018
@TheBoltonNews Alice Parr braved the weather and was determined to go to school as Pippi Longstocking for World Book Day.
— Derrick Parr (@DerkerP) March 1, 2018
Well done Alice... pic.twitter.com/RRfx41TWH8
Brodie aged 5 as BFG attending Bowness school @TheBoltonNews #WorldBookDay2018 pic.twitter.com/vn9wrMm5Aw
— Becca Shaw (@BeccaCrowder) March 1, 2018
@TheBoltonNews Lilly age 6, St. George’s school Westhoughton “boss baby” 👶🍼📚🌍 pic.twitter.com/Xa4rOMI24W
— laura withall (@laura_withall) March 1, 2018
@TheBoltonNews a very sad pirate for world bookday .. school shut ..bless her xx pic.twitter.com/6hFmiYwBbB
— Janice Smith (@janicesmith506) March 1, 2018
@TheBoltonNews Lily Shooter aged 8 from Ladybridge Primary School as ‘The Demon Dentist’ by David Williams pic.twitter.com/PF4yECvyPw
— Vicky Blazey (@vicblazey) March 1, 2018
So if you’ve got a great Gruffalo or perfect Harry Potter outfit you’d like to share with our readers, then send us your pictures and we’ll use the best in the paper.
Remember to include your child's full name, age and which area/school your child is from.
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World Book Day 2018
"Send us a picture of your little 'un enjoying World Book Day in their best literary outfit. Remember to include full name, age and which area or school they're from"
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What is your response?Talayla cree age 5 from st peters school farnworth
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What is your response?Penelope insisted on Batgirl
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What is your response?Maeve Ritchie age 8 as Alice, St Catherines C of E primary school Horwich
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What is your response?Kayleigh Gaskell aged 8. St Joseph RC Halliwell. Yr 4. dressed as Ann from Famous Five
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What is your response?Sophie cunliffe age 11 Gangsta granny st James primary farnworth
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What is your response?Jacob Hope age 4 as Captain Hook at Eatock and Oliver Hope age 2 as the Hungry Caterpillar
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What is your response?Yusuf Issa dressed as Horrid Henry Aged 7, Beaumont Primary School
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What is your response?Summer-dee lord, sienna lord and melody lord aged 9,8 and 5 of st peters school farnworth all with their fairy book wings they helped make themselves for world book day.
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What is your response?Layton carter 7 . Elliot carter 5. Ray carter 3 Castle hill school bolton
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What is your response?Franki rothwell hamilton... as dr seuss cat in the hat st peters school farnworth
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What is your response?Jack Westby, age 7, St Bedes Primary School. Dressed as ‘fluffy’ the three headed dog from Harry Potter
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What is your response?Bobby-Jack Mason, age 6. Dressed as James and the giant peach, attending St Stephen and all martyrs, Bolton
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What is your response?Rosie (age 10) as Artemis either from mythology or Percy Jackson and Amy (age 7) as Daisy and the Trouble with Chocolate. Both go to At Thomas of Canterbury School
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What is your response?Madison Amelia Marshall as Snow White. Aged 4. St Bedes Academy. Morris Green. Turned up ready for world book day in afternoon Nursey but then school decided to send children home ☹
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What is your response?Isabelle Cassidy aged 4 dressed as Hermione Grainger from Potter. Attends grosvenor nursery school in farnworth.
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What is your response?Dr Harry aldred age 5 and Alfie aldred age 6 as burt from the rat burger. St. Peter’s smithill dean Bolton
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What is your response?Dr Harry aldred age 5 and Alfie aldred age 6 as burt from the rat burger. St. Peter’s smithill dean Bolton
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What is your response?Queen of Hearts & Mad Hatter Amaan & Zoya Fatima, age 8 & 5 from Sharples Primary School
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What is your response?Where’s Wally theme
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What is your response?Where’s Wally theme
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What is your response?Ava Horrocks age 7 from hardy mill school dressed a Hermione Grainger from Harry Potter with her little brother Sebastian Cox age 12 weeks dressed as Harry Potter himself.
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What is your response?This is my son Aiden he is 8 and he was very brave going into school in a unicorn outfit got to give him 10 out of 10 for it! from westhoughton and goes to st bartholomews
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What is your response?Charlie Ryan age 5 as the Gingerbread Man -st pauls peel Lola-Meah Ryan age 2 as Ariel -best friends private day nursery
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What is your response?Isla age 2 Moorgate as Dorothy
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What is your response?Isla age 2 Moorgate as Dorothy
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What is your response?Isla age 2 Moorgate as Dorothy
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What is your response?Harvey and Alfie Tustin.age 11 and 7 ready for a day of fun at queensbridge primary.
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What is your response?Ciara Morley age 11 and Conley Morley age 7, Ice Queen and Smaug, St Osmunds and Andrews RCPS
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What is your response?Seran-Grace Bolton Age 5 as Belle Clarendon Primary School Bolton Kendra-Mae Bolton Age 3 as Little Red Riding Hood Clarendon Primary School Bolton
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What is your response?Katelyn Roberts age 9 as a pirate from pirates of the Caribbean and Amelia Roberts age 6 as Cinderella both at st Simon and Jude’s
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What is your response?Esmai-Rose Jones aged 2 Rosehill nursery Bolton
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What is your response?My son Brent age 11, Rivington and Blackrod High School. Dressed as Thomas from The Maze Runner.
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What is your response?Ocean ray marsh Orchards school Reception
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What is your response?Alyss May Wilson Age 6 St Thomas Of Canterbury’s
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What is your response?Scarlet and Andreous, Mad Hatter and Captain America.xx
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What is your response?Emily Tait aged 5 from Hardy Mill School
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What is your response?summer smith and curtis smith as beauty (no beast) and the hungry caterpillar st bedes and lucy taylor bromley cross as goldilocks
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What is your response?Lily Kelly 6, jorja Kelly 9, Daniel Kelly 4. Bolton
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What is your response?Ebony byrne as malificent
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What is your response?Coby fitzsimmons Age 6 St simons and judes Woody
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What is your response?Oliver D,4 years old, SS OSMUNDS AND ANDREWS, Breightmet
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What is your response?Corey Mcdermott, Age 8 Fromm Cherry Tree school Farnworth.
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What is your response?Jamie Haughton-Hayes age 7 from little lever, dressing up as one of the Three blind mice
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What is your response?My Daughter Mia Wilson (6) has dressed up as the witch from Julia Donaldson's book 'Room on the Broom' Put wrong name on form last time.
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What is your response?Belle Deighton age 5 from St Osmunds and Andrews School, dressed as The Rainbow Fish.
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What is your response?Lexi-jade warr moden Little red riding hood Age 7 Tonge moor primary
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What is your response?Amelia Threlfall-Makin 6 years old dressed as Belle from Beauty and the beast! Moorgate primary school
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What is your response?Alice rose parr Age 7 Ss osmunds and Andrew's Pippi longstocking
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What is your response?Alice Rose Parr Age 7 Ss Osmund and Andrew's Pippi longstocking
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What is your response?Alice Rose Parr Age 7 Ss Osmund and Andrew's Pippi longstocking
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What is your response?Alicia aged 5 from smithills as the Mad Hatter for world book day 2018
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What is your response?Alice Prosperini aged 8 from SS Osmund & Andrews R.C. Primary School as Mrs Banks celebrating 100 years of women's votes.
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What is your response?Harley Sweeney aged 8 from St Bede Academy in Bolton
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What is your response?Mad Hatter, Mason Lee Smith, 10yrs, Egerton, St John's Bromley Cross.
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What is your response?Reagan Whenlock Age 9 Ss simon and Jude’s Gangster Granny
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What is your response?Rosie (10), Ben (6), Melissa (4) Mouse Theme for Bowness Primary, Little Lever.
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What is your response?My daughter has dressed up as the witch from Julia Donaldson's book 'Room on the Broom'
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What is your response?Emily and Alice Oakley 6 and 4 Heaton
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What is your response?August-Philipa age 4 Bolton
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What is your response?Lucy heeley. Age 8 as Dorothy. Leo mccarthy. Age 4 as horrid Henry. Amy heeley age 10 as a sassy mad hatter. All attend st Simon & st Jude’s, great lever.
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What is your response?Ollie & Charlotte Walsh (age 3 & 1). Jumbles Nursery in Edgworth. Their favourite book is Mr Men & The Pirates.
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What is your response?Ashley killas-atherton year 2 st Matthews little lever
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What is your response?10 year old Taylor Rowson dressed as Gregg Heffley from the Diary of a wimpy Kid book series. From Farnworth,Bolton.attends Our Lady Of Lourdes RC Primary School
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What is your response?My daughter Daisy Bostock aged 8 from Westhoughton. I didn't feel there was a book with more character than her very own reading record.
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What is your response?Joshua Brookes as The Beast. 9 months old from St Brendans nursery Bolton.
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What is your response?Nathaniel age 11 being Mr Stink. St Thomas of Canterbury RC school
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What is your response?St osmundd n Andrews breightmet
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What is your response?Lucas James Smith (Ninga Turtle) Aged 7 St George’s school Westhoughton Harry Paul Edgar (Captain America) aged 5 st George’s School Westhoughton
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World Book Day 2018
Send us a picture of your little 'un enjoying World Book Day in their best literary outfit. Remember to include full name, age and which area or school they're from
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