Nursery World - Nurseries and schools celebrate World Book Day

Early years settings and schools across the country have been celebrating the 25th World Book Day.

Children and nursery practitioners from Kidzrus The Lodge nursery in Swinton, Manchester, celebrated World Book Day with the theme of Dodie Smith's classic, The One Hundred and One Dalmatians PHOTO Twitter

Launched in 1997, World Book Day was designed to foster a love of books and reading among children.

As part of the annual event, which is sponsored by National Book Tokens, children of all ages are able to buy books for £1, or €1.50 in Ireland.

For World Book Day, National Book Tokens with book publishers and booksellers and in partnership with schools and nurseries all over the country, distribute over 15 million £1/€1.50 World Book Day book tokens to children and young people (that’s almost one for every child/young person under 18 in the UK and Ireland) every year.

The picture books available this year are:

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