{"id":3239,"date":"2024-03-07T13:39:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2024-03-07T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:40:38","slug":"world-book-day-7-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/03\/07\/world-book-day-7-march\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day 7 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/Website-Hero-Images-1024x577-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3240\" width=\"294\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/Website-Hero-Images-1024x577-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/Website-Hero-Images-1024x577-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/Website-Hero-Images-1024x577-1-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 85vw, 294px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>Post by Caitlin, Student Experience Ambassador<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Book Day is on the 7th March and celebrates the joy of reading and aims to improve access to books for all children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of World Book Day, a variety of \u00a31 books are put on sale to encourage accessible reading. They include stories for beginners, early, fluent and independent readers with stories written by David McKee, Tola Okogwu and Jennifer Killick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big part of celebrating World Book Day is dressing up. Children are often encouraged to dress as their favourite book characters at school on World Book Day. This acts as a fun way for children to engage with reading and share their own personal book recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/th.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/th.jpeg 474w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/th-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 85vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post by Caitlin, Student Experience Ambassador World Book Day is on the 7th March and celebrates the joy of reading and aims to improve access to books for all children. As part of World Book Day, a variety of \u00a31 books are put on sale to encourage accessible reading. They include stories for beginners, early, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/03\/07\/world-book-day-7-march\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Book Day 7 March&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3244,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}