World Book Day 2010 books revealed

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The titles of the six specially produced books for World Book Day 2010 have been announced.
This year’s books include a Thomas the Tank Engine story for pre-school children, a Grubtown tales book by Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner, Philip Ardagh, and Scholastic author Dan Freedman’s Jamie Johnson: Born to Play. As with last year’s world book day, some of the titles are ‘flip’ books, providing readers with two books in one.

The titles can be bought at participating book stores with the £1 (€1.50 in Ireland) book token that is sent to all children in UK and Irish Primary Schools by charity World Book Day Ltd. Pre-schools and Secondary Schools in the UK need to register at www.worldbookday.com to receive support material, including the World Book Day £1 Book Tokens.

The Book Tokens can be redeemed against any book or audio book worth £2.99 (€3.99) or more (one Book Token per transaction), or exchanged for one of the six specially produced £1 (€1.50) books, while stocks last, between Monday 1 and Sunday 28 March inclusive.

The full list of titles is given below. The age ranges given are for appropriate content and not reading age.
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Thomas & Friends: Thomas to the Rescue (Egmont)

Age 5+ flip book

_Kitten Chaos_ by Anna Wilson (Macmillan Children’s Books) with Magic Ballerina: The Magic Dance_ by Darcey Bussell (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
_The Charlie Small Journals: Valley of Terrors
(David Fickling Books) with *Dinosaur Cove: Battle of the Giants* by Rex Stone (Oxford University Press)

Age 7+ flip book

_Grubtown Tales: The Great Pasta Disaster_ by Philip Ardagh, illustrated by Jim Paillot (Faber & Faber) with *Pongwiffy and the Important Announcement* by Kaye Umansky, illustrated by Nick Price Bloomsbury

Age 9+ flip book

_Jamie Johnson: Born to Play_ by Dan Freedman (Scholastic) with *Young Samurai: The Way of Fire* by Chris Bradford (Puffin Books)

Age 11+ flip book

_Walking the Walls_ by Chris Higgins (Hodder Children’s Books) with *Medusa Project: The Thief* by Sophie McKenzie (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books)

Once again, the Joseph Clarke School in Waltham Forest will be creating Braille and Large Print editions of all or some of the £1 Books.

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  1. Nisha S
    on 4 March 2010

    WHAT?

    Helloe,this informatoin is very good but what stores/book shops are participating? they may have some more range of books to choose than these.... please answer back,thank you,Nisha S age 11.

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