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In the United Kingdom and Ireland, World Book Day is a charity event in March, held annually on the first Thursday and coinciding with the release of special editions. [10] The annual celebration on 23 April is World Book Night, an event organized by independent charity The Reading Agency. [11]
This is a list of books released for World Book Day in the UK and Ireland.In 1998 and 1999 a specially created WBD anthology priced at £1 (€1.50 in Ireland) was published.
World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March. On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK and the Republic of Ireland is provided with a voucher to be spent on books; the event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1998.
The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [ 1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [ 1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still provides a print edition. [ 2]
In 1995, UNESCO adopted April 23 as World Book Day and decreed the book as the most important instrument in the dissemination of knowledge. In 2015 Barcelona was named as a UNESCO City of Literature; central to the candidacy was the unique celebration of books and roses.
A 2006 survey in Great Britain, conducted by the BBC's literacy campaign for World Book Day, found Curious Incident to be among "the top five happy endings, as voted on by readers" in novels (the others were Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre and Rebecca, the last of which Curious outranked). [28]
The World Book Capital programme during the year 2011 was held in Buenos Aires in Argentina. The project unit "Unidad de Proyectos Buenos Aires Capital Mundial de Libro" was created especially for the occasion and was run by Luciana Blasco. [41] The three pillars of the Buenos Aires 2011 World book Capital were: The promotion of books
Book Titles per Capita. (Excel dataset for the period from 1500 until 2010 CE, worldwide) IPA. "IPA Annual Report 2014", International Publishers Association, retrieved October 25, 2014; Alison Flood. "UK publishes more books per capita than any other country, report shows" The Guardian, retrieved October 25, 2014