This year World Book Day will be slightly different but we will still be celebrating all things books.

There are lots of activities that you can get involved in, join in online with Sharing a Story Corner and Share a Story live events or perhaps watch the Author and Illustrator Academy videos and take part in lots of exciting challenges and activities.

There is also a World Book Day Book Club which you can sign up to and the club newsletter.

There are 12 fantastic World Book Books to choose from, check them out:

Instead of the usual paper vouchers, this year it will be an electronic version.

Please click on the link to download the voucher:

The voucher can be printed off or you can show the voucher on a phone/tablet screen to participating booksellers. But please check before you go to the shop as some will only accept a printed voucher.

Vouchers can be used at:

Sainsburys

Tesco

ASDA

Morrinsons

Waterstones

WHSmith

The Little Bookshop, Chapel Allerton

Vouchers are valid from Thursday 18th February to Sunday 28th March.

Visit www.worldbookday.com for more information

This afternoon, author of Letters of the Lighthouse, Emma Carroll virtually visited Year 6.

The Children were really excited to meet Emma as she is the author of their current class novel and links to their topic, World War II.

Emma talked about writing, read extracts from the book, answered questions from the children and even introduced them to her assistant, Olive (named after the main character in the book), the dog.

On Monday 23rd November, author, Emma Carroll will be visiting Year 6 children, virtually. Emma will be talking to the children about what it is like being a writer and writing in general. She will primarily be focusing on one of her books; Letter from the Lighthouse which is Year 6’s class novel this term.

The children will also have the opportunity at the end of the talk to ask Emma lots of questions.