SASH Library staff will be celebrating World Book Day 2021 on Thursday 4th March. Make sure to check out our Twitter and share your childhood reading memories with us!
UNESCO established World Book Day in 1995 to celebrate the joy of reading and to highlight that reading for pleasure is the single biggest indictor of a child’s future success. Today children of all ages in over 100 countries come together to share the joy of reading for pleasure.
In 2020, library staff teamed up with SASH Outwood Ward to dress up as storybook characters and deliver World Book Day Book Tokens and books to our young patients at the hospital. If you have access to SASHnet you can view images from last year’s World Book Day here.
Despite the pandemic, the library has once again teamed up with Outwood Ward to ensure our young patients do not miss out on reading. We are very grateful to WHSmith who have very generously donated this year’s World Book Day books. Janine, the Health Play Specialist, will be handing these and the World Book Day Tokens out to patients on Thursday.
What is your favourite book from your childhood? Visit our Twitter to share your reading memories with the library team! You might even see some of the library team dressed up again…
View the list of books here on the World Book Day website. NB: We will not have “Kill Joy” and “Skullduggery Pleasant” as these are books aimed at teenagers.
Library staff all dressed up for World Book Day 2020!
