WORLD BOOK DAY 2021: Find out some of the top rated books to delve into this year!
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What's your favourite book?
Thursday March 4th marks World Book Days' 24th year!
The day helps promote the love for reading, it was created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995 as a worldwide celebration and it is now marked in over 100 countries around the globe!
If you want to get involved there are plenty of ways to celebrate. You can dive into your favourite book, or better still: discover a new title!
According to Goodreads.co.uk: Here are some of the best rated books of 2021!
- The Four Winds The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah - The Wife Upstairs
by Rachel Hawkins - The Push
by Ashley Audrain - Lore
by Alexandra Bracken - Concrete Rose
by Angie Thomas - The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles - The Lost Apothecary
by Sarah Penner - Chain of Iron
by Cassandra Clare - The Thorn of Emberlain
by Scott Lynch - Malibu Rising
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Organsisers of World Book Day have also shared a list of must read books for youngsters!
For the little ones:
Ages 5-8
- A Bear Called Paddington
- A Boy Called Christmas
- Ada Twist, Scientist
- Amazing Grace
- Charlotte's Web
- Claude in the City
- Finn Family Moomintroll
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
- Grimms' Fairy Tales
- Just So Stories
- Michael Rosen's Sad Book
- My Brother is a Superhero
- Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
- Revolting Rhymes
- The Book With No Pictures
Ages 9-12:
- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
- Bad Girls
- Cogheart
- Coraline
- Darkmouth
- Goodnight Mister Tom
- Guinness World Records
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Holes
- Journey to the River Sea
- Matilda
- Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
- Pippi Longstocking
- Private Peaceful
- Stig of the Dump
For Teens:
- A Monster Calls
- Everything, Everything
- I Am Malala
- Moondust
- Northern Lights
- Noughts and Crosses
- Of Mice and Men
- One
- Orangeboy
- Salt to the Sea
- Six of Crows
- Skulduggery Pleasant
- Summoner: The Novice
- The Arrival
- The Art of Being Normal
Are they missing any iconic titles? Let us us know what your favourite book is!
As World Book Day founder, Baroness Gail Rebuck, says: “We wanted to do something to reposition reading and our message is the same today as it was then – that reading is fun, relevant, accessible, exciting, and has the power to transform lives.”