Reading for Pleasure

World Book Day was launched in 1998 and takes place in the UK and Ireland on the first Thursday in March each year and is aimed at encouraging reading for pleasure and literacy development amongst children. It is allied to UNESCO's World Book and Copyright Day which was established in 1995 takes place on 23 April each year

Useful Links:

• Book Aid International
• National Centre for Research In Children's Literature - University of Roehampton
• National Literacy Trust
• Reading Agency - Summer 2021 Book Challenge
• UCL - Reading Recovery Europe
• UNESCO - World Book and Copyright Day
• World Book Day
• World Book Day Impact Report (external PDF)
• World Book Night

In this 18 minute video hear one member of the Academic and Digital Skills Team talk about her introduction to reading and some of the books that 'made her'.

Books featured in the video:

• Beatrix Potter - Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, Cecily Parker's Nursery Rhymes and The Tale of Tom Kitten
• Dick Bruna - The Apple
• Hilda Boswell - Nursery-Rhyme Land and The Little Crazy Car
• Kathryn Jackson - The Bedtime Book Of 365 Stories : A Story For Every Day Of The Year (illustrated by Richard Scarry)
• The Golden Book Of Fairy Tales (illustrated by Felicitas Kuhn)
• Mary Cockett - Strange Valley (Illustrated by Mary Dinsdale)
• A. Rutgers Van Der Loeff - Children On The Oregon Trail (Translated by Roy Edwards; Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder - The Long Winter (illustrated by Garth Williams)
• Joan G. Robinson - When Marnie Was There (illustrated by Peggy Fortnum)
• Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden (illustrated by Susan Einzig)
• Jane Austen - Emma
• Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
• J.D. Salinger - Catcher In The Rye
• Grace Maxwell - Falling And Laughing : The Restoration Of Edwyn Collins
• Joan Lindsay - Picnic At Hanging Rock
• Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye To Berlin
• Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Photographs by Russell Munson)
• Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
• Orlando Weeks - The Gritterman
• Ladybird Books - How It Works : The Computer and Book Of Handwriting
• Ayisha Malik - Sophia Khan Is Not Obliged
• Sally Rooney - Normal People
• Sara Cox - Till The Cows Come Home
• Val McDermid - Christmas Murder : A Chilling Short Story Collection
• Tom Cox - Notebook
• Helen Cooper - The Downstairs Neighbour

Other books mentioned in the video:

• Enid Blyton - The Famous Five, The Secret Seven
• Zane Grey - Riders Of The Purple Sage
• Mary Norton -  The Borrowers series
• P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins series
• Michael Bond - Paddington series
• Jane Austen - Persuasion, Pride And Prejudice, Sense And Sensibility
• Jo Baker - Longbourn
• P.D. James - Death Comes To Pemberley
• Harper Lee - To Set A Watchman