This year World Book Day, the biggest annual celebration of books and reading for children in the UK and Ireland is taking place on Thursday 3rd March. Guthlaxton College is celebrating this event, as in previous years, by distributing the official £1 World Book Day tokens.  Students can exchange their token in participating bookshops for one of six specially published £1 books or redeem against the cost of one of the thousands of other books available.  The World Book Day tokens will be available from the college Learning Resource Centre and teaching staff in the English Faculty this week.

To find out more about World Book Day, other related organisations, and the many planned activities, please visit the official website at www.worldbookday.com.

Teen readers can enter exciting competitions and book reviews at www.digi-tale.co

The college will also be running the World Book Day design a bookmark competition, offering students the chance to win National Book Tokens.  Students need to design the front of a book themed bookmark.  Full competition details and entry box are available in the college learning resource centre. Students and staff can also celebrate reading by joining the successful college reading group, MOLES.  The group meets regularly in the Learning Resource Centre to recommend and discuss reading.  Bali Rai’s City of Ghosts is to be discussed at the next meeting which will be held on Friday 4th March at 12.40pm

If you want to learn about the inspiration behind some of our most read writers by visiting the collection of interviews at the BBC archive: www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/

Published on Tuesday 1st March 2011 at 09:00