World Book Day

I love World Book Day. It’s a wonderful thing to have a special day to celebrate the magic of books and the power of reading. For an author, one of the most amazing and gratifying things is to see all the wonderful costumes children and parents create, particularly when they choose one of the characters from my books.

Every year, I celebrate this by creating a blog post with a gallery of images of all the pictures you send me. You see last year’s crops of characters here. If you’d like to be featured in this years gallery, you can either email me a photo through this website, or share it on social media and @ me in.

Here is a video message from me for any young reader excited about World Book Day.

If you’d like to dress up as one of my characters, I’ve put some ideas of how you might do this below.

The Ice Children - Bianca

Beetle Boy - Darkus

All you need is a big jumper and a beetle! Perhaps you might like to put a freckle or two on your nose!

Twitch

If you fancy dressing up as Twitch or any one of The Twitchers, all you need is some outdoor clothes and a pair of binoculars!

Adventures on Trains - Harrison Beck

Hal wears a stripy tshirt, a yellow rain coat and always carries a sketch book and pencil.