Children – and grown-ups – were challenged to dress up as book characters, coming as everything from a wizard to a bee and spend the day doing lots of literary activities.
World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March.
Every child in full-time education is provided with a voucher to be spent on books; the event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1998.
There was no dressing up at Kesteven and Sleaford High School, but they did run a library/dining hall collaboration prize draw to win a mystery book.
Also, as part of their Festival of Reading taking place throughout March as part of the National Year of Reading 2026, they have run a competition to design the official KSHS bookmark for 2026.
Year nine student Hannah was the winning entry.
This is just a few of the images we have received from schools and parents.
- See more next week.
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Picking out the lucky tickets. Mrs Gibson - Librarian and Mrs Parrott - Catering Manager at KSHS in Sleaford. Photo: KSHS
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Year 9 pupils Hannah at Kesteven and Sleaford High School with her winning bookmark entry, which is now in production. Photo: KSHS
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Staff dressed up for World Book Day at Sleaford library. Photo: ugc
4. Mrs Mary King's Isadora Moon
These two pupils from Mrs Mary King's School in Martin both dressed as Isadora Moon. Photo: ugc