World Book Day 2024

Every year, I am blown away by all the amazing things that people do to celebrate books on World Book Day! I love it - it really is an incredible thing for a writer to see their books being celebrated in that way.  So here are some of the highlights I've seen this year...

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Happy #WorldBookDay! Best day of the year… 🐯🐅🧡 @whatSFSaid pic.twitter.com/fr6ImoAlOT

— Rebecca Rouillard 💙 (@rrouillard) March 7, 2024

@whatSFSaid I have loved being Varjak today! Thank you for writing these books. @HartfordManor72 pic.twitter.com/R3A7k0WjiP

— Emily Underhill (@emderhilly) March 7, 2024

A huge thank you from me and my sons for the Varjak books. Happy world book day pic.twitter.com/2hsvqR5qMr

— Jo Kirby (@JoKirby62472699) March 8, 2024

Fantastic start to World Book Day! We’ve just finished reading Phoenix by SFSaid @whatSFSaid. Look at our shadow guards, Bixa, Major Dashwood and we’ve even got Lucky with his burnt bedsheet! An amazing book that got a round of applause when we finished! @SWJSmrflem @swalneyj pic.twitter.com/AeNca4d7pV

— Mrs Banks (@mbaswjs) March 7, 2024

More from the Book Bake-Off @HaslingdenHigh a Tyger inspired stripy cake from Alice Hardwick in Year 7! #WorldBookDay2024 @whatSFSaid pic.twitter.com/FvQT7BnLxW

— Haslingden High School Library (@hhsch_library) March 7, 2024

Meet the Paw family in Year 3 🐈 There were lots of cats in the year group today, reflecting our love of the book we're currently reading - Varjak Paw by SF. Said 💙 @arkvicprimary @ArkVicAcademy @whatSFSaid pic.twitter.com/QpCK7n6Bch

— Year3ArkVic (@Year3ArkVic) March 7, 2024

We're seeing some AMAZING costumes and decorated items to celebrate #WBD24 - well done everyone! 🤩

Kylie from our UK Bookings team has been helping her children decorate #BookDay potatoes featuring @sarahVroberts @sethburkett & @whatSFSaid and we love them! #WorldBookDay2024 pic.twitter.com/m5PCHzsXKB

— Authors Abroad (@AuthorsAbroad_) March 7, 2024

Fabulous costumes and lots of book inspiration from Year 4 today! #WorldBookDay @whatSFSaid @TomDaley1994 📚📚 pic.twitter.com/8bXZ2T4hB9

— Claverdon School (@ClaverdonSchool) March 7, 2024

#WBD MEMORIES #gangstagranny #tyger @davidwalliams @whatSFSaid What character will you be this year?📚📚📚 #WBD2024 pic.twitter.com/0QjtAiITgH

— English@Malmesbury (@EnglishMalmesb1) March 7, 2024

@TJPrimary @StratfordPrim @bishoptonprim @WillowsCE @BridgetownPS We loved celebrating #WorldBookDay with you Primary Quiz 2024, discussing Tyger by @whatSFSaid You were all so knowledgeable but extra👏 to our winners from @TJPrimary Keep reading❤️📚#SuASEngage @WarwickshireSLS pic.twitter.com/JX9ppPD7h0

— Stratford upon Avon School (@StraUponAvonSch) March 7, 2024

Year 4 enjoyed designing their own front cover for a graphic novel edition of Varjak Paw as part of our #WorldBookDay2024 activities📚📚🐾🐾@ReadingatSHPA @whatSFSaid @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT @StHelensAcademy pic.twitter.com/iAygj76pzK

— ClassRauf@StHelen's (@ClassRauf23) March 8, 2024

Reading in Unusual Places, for @WorldBookDayUK (the book is Tyger by @whatSFSaid). Location : Balloon Museum, London pic.twitter.com/acTBP7a7hb

— Sarah B (@ThatSarahBee) February 24, 2024

Some more here… pic.twitter.com/G7XPJj7uMF

— Sarah B (@ThatSarahBee) February 24, 2024

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Red Kites have chosen S.F. Said as their author as part of World Book Day. Here are some of their amazing poems based on the book Tyger. #BLSwriting @whatSFSaid pic.twitter.com/HZ9R6QvyxS

— Brigstock Latham's CE Primary School (@BrigLathamsSch) March 12, 2024

Author Visits: Children's Bookfest & Rose Green Junior School

I'd like to say a huge THANK YOU to Karen Ison and all the students and staff I met at Rose Green Junior School when I had the pleasure of visiting them last week – and to Georgina Lippiett, Jen Rogers and everyone at Children's Bookfest for making this visit possible!

Children's Bookfest is an amazing organisation that brings authors into schools.  The authors do events, and then every child is given a copy of a book, which the author signs and dedicates for them.  I was delighted to do an event for them in Chichester last year, and was excited to do another one in Bognor Regis at Rose Green, organised by the brilliant teacher Karen Ison.

We had a fantastic assembly where we talked about reading and writing and books, and it was clear that there were many brilliant readers in this school.  Some of them had come across all my books before, from Varjak Paw onwards.  But the book that everyone was currently reading was my new book Tyger, which Children's Bookfest had given to everyone in Years 5 and 6.  

I saw some fantastic creative writing and artwork that Year 6 had done with Tyger last year.  And this year's Year 6 were already getting started on it – a wonderful thing for an author to see!

It's an incredible thing to feel the buzz around reading and books that this kind of visit creates.  There's something so inclusive and inspiring about giving a book to every child on a visit, and I've loved working with Children's Bookfest.  So thanks again to everyone who was part of this brilliant day!  And thanks to Karen Ison for the fantastic photos!

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