Richard Holden MP is Supporting World Book Day’s 25th anniversary Today on Thursday 3 March 2022.
Each year, World Book Day creates bespoke £1 books for children and young adults across the UK and Ireland, to promote the power of imagination and the importance of reading. Through World Book Day, every child in North West Durham will be given a £1 book token, which they can take to a bookshop or supermarket to get their free World Book Day book.
World Book Day has been changing children’s lives by encouraging a love of books and reading for 25 years. Reading for pleasure makes an enormous impact on a child’s future – whether that’s their educational success, well-being or mental health. World Book Day wants to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with the life-long habit of reading for pleasure that will improve their life chances.
Commenting, Richard explained:
“It is a pleasure to support World Book Day in its 25th year. It is so important that every child and young adult in my North West Durham has the opportunity to have a book of their own that they have chosen for themselves – and I am delighted to celebrate my own love of reading through the World Book Day campaign.”
“Schools in my constituency will be dressing up and using their tokens to buy an exciting book. Whether their book is about dungeons or dragons, princes or princesses, mystery or sci-fi – I know that the imagination of children to bring these stories to life is one of their many great gifts – and one that all children should enjoy.”