Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams and Julia Donaldson among authors writing new stories to mark the 20th anniversary of annual children’s reading celebration
Jacqueline Wilson, Julia Donaldson and David Walliams are among the authors writing new stories to mark the 20th World Book Day in the UK in 2017, with Wilson promising that “no matter how much a child might say they hate reading, there’ll be a book somewhere that they’ll love”.
The annual celebration of reading was launched in the UK in 1998 in response to declining reading and writing standards among children. A similar tradition has run for more than 90 years in Catalonia, and in 1995, it was designated an international event by Unesco.
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