World Book Night celebrates its fifth year tomorrow, April 23rd.
World Book Night brings together a powerful collaboration of national partners – publishers, printers, distributors, libraries, booksellers, private donors, trusts and foundations – to inspire more people to read. Thousands of volunteers share their love of reading by giving out books to people in their communities who, for whatever reason, don’t read for pleasure or own books. National, regional and local events up and down the country celebrate the difference that reading makes to people’s lives.
Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy, The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe and Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo are only a few of the books picked for this year’s event. For the full list – and to find out more about each book – you can visit the official website.
Celebrate #reading & #Shakespeare at our @WorldBookNight gala event @britishlibrary on 23.04 https://t.co/eAZkmpPCwD pic.twitter.com/OMOddpLIeT
— World Book Night UK (@WorldBookNight) April 5, 2016
Everyone is excited and eager to participate.
We’re celebrating #WorldBookNight today! Come to Charlton Street Market and grab a free book. #LoveCamden pic.twitter.com/ASPJGd9AGH
— Knowledge Quarter (@KQ_London) April 22, 2016
We’ve got a #WorldBookNight stand outside our offices.
Visit us at 74-77 Great Russell Street pic.twitter.com/L4YCdXMc0w— Faber & Faber (@FaberBooks) April 22, 2016
Visiting @boroughmarket today? We’ll be giving out these beauties between 2 and 3pm! #bardabag #WorldBookNight pic.twitter.com/XUQ4ph04MP
— HarperCollinsUK (@HarperCollinsUK) April 22, 2016
However, April 23rd is a very significant day for also another reason: Shakespeare Saturday!
The national campaign that celebrates bookshops has a wonderful event to commemorate the life of Shakespeare, as this year sees the 400th anniversary of his death. Customers are encouraged to visit the participating bookshops and join the festivities.
Who’s visiting their local bookshop on Sat to celebrate the Bard? https://t.co/z2jTDgW79b #bardabag #Shakespeare400 pic.twitter.com/G5Pjn795HC
— Picador Books (@picadorbooks) April 21, 2016
The Bard is booksellers’ bag this Saturday https://t.co/JOerGVZ8QX via @thebookseller #bardabag pic.twitter.com/m9ultGSeAH
— Booksellers Assoc. (@BAbooksellers) April 21, 2016
Free #bardabag for our first 100 book buyers this weekend! #BAMB#ShakespeareSaturday #ShakespeareLives pic.twitter.com/tsvv1D9XIm
— Shakespeare B Trust (@ShakespeareBT) April 21, 2016
Books Are My Bag also have an ongoing Twitter campaign, with the hashtag #ShakespeareWho to promote this special day on social media.
One man, so much influence. Always amazing. https://t.co/wqyCpRO3gR #ShakespeareWho #bardabag pic.twitter.com/aKRdHX5jJc
— Neil Hart (@blinkertoon) April 21, 2016
We challenge you to sneak some of the Bard’s best one-liners into everyday tweets! Accept?#ShakespeareWho #bardabag pic.twitter.com/gBx3wfsBHz
— booksaremybag (@booksaremybag) April 20, 2016
How are you going to celebrate these worldwide events? Let us know in the comments below!
