World Book Day 2022 – Children’s Book Prizes

April 20, 2022

Each World Book Day we try to celebrate books and reading. Schools let children dress up as their favourite book characters or ask them to make all manner of things celebrating a book they love. In year 6 my daughter made me help her turn a shoebox into an escape scene from The Maze Runner, she then went on to read all the books in the series.

At Turn Around we have a fairly comprehensive library of popular children’s books, YA titles, a classic titles collection and fairly new contemporary adult fiction and non-fiction. We encourage people to ‘borrow’ books and benefit from regular donations from the local community. We regularly add new books to the YA and children’s sections and order books if a child asks for something we don’t have.

This World Book Day we celebrated by compiling a suggestion list of new children’s titles with help from staff at our local Waterstone’s. Half our students had suggestions of their own, they had already found an author/stories they like and wanted to read them all. The children choosing from the suggestion list were excited to read something new and the children who had chosen the next book in a series by a particular author they liked were especially thrilled. Two children chose diary format fiction from the Dork’s Diaries series and Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and both are budding writers. One child requested the next book in The Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis, and there is no turning back once you go through the wardrobe. It’s good to see the younger generation delighting in a new book as much as the generations who grew up before the internet and even delighting in the same books we did.

To develop a love of reading you need to know what you love and to know what you love you need to read books.