About World Book Night
World Book Night is a celebration of reading and books which
sees tens of thousands of passionate volunteers gift books in their
communities to share their love of reading.
In 2012 World Book Night will be celebrated in the UK, Ireland, Germany and USA on April 23.
In the UK, 20,000 passionate readers will gift 24 copies of one of
their favourite books to encourage those who don't regularly read to
fall in love with reading. In addition World Book Night will be giving a
further 620,000 books over the course of the year directly to the
hardest to reach readers through prisons, care homes, hospitals,
sheltered housing, homeless shelters, libraries and through other
partner charities.
Why World Book Night
Take a minute to remember what it was that made you first fall in love with reading: the incredible passion you felt, and still feel, for books, for stories; the excited feeling you still get when you pick up a book that you just can’t wait to read and think about the places it will take you, the people you’ll meet and the joy you’ll get from reading it.
Take a minute to remember what it was that made you first fall in love with reading: the incredible passion you felt, and still feel, for books, for stories; the excited feeling you still get when you pick up a book that you just can’t wait to read and think about the places it will take you, the people you’ll meet and the joy you’ll get from reading it.
Now think about the millions of people who have never been on that
journey or who, somewhere along the way, have forgotten how incredible
it can be. Think about the power of putting a book in to their hands and
saying ‘this one’s amazing, you have to read it’.
World Book Night reaches out to those who don’t regularly read by
using passionate book lovers around the country to become reading
ambassadors and to do just that within their communities, book by book,
reader by reader, hand to hand, getting the whole country reading.
How does World Book Night work?
25 titles are specially chosen and printed in World Book Night editions. Givers apply for a particular book (they get a first, second and third choice) which they must commit to gift to those who don't regularly read, to share and spread their love of reading. Givers collect their books from their local bookshops and libraries, putting the very heart of our reading communities at the very heart of World Book Night...
25 titles are specially chosen and printed in World Book Night editions. Givers apply for a particular book (they get a first, second and third choice) which they must commit to gift to those who don't regularly read, to share and spread their love of reading. Givers collect their books from their local bookshops and libraries, putting the very heart of our reading communities at the very heart of World Book Night...
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