World Book Day 2012
Authors, illustrators, books and reading celebrated across the globe
People in more than 100 countries around the world will be celebrating the fifteenth annual World Book Day today.
Events will be held across the UK and Ireland to celebrate books and encourage children to explore the pleasures of reading.
live streamed a special event for schoolchildren, , to mark the occasion.
DCMS聽is also聽celebrating World Book Day on Twitter by tweeting about our favourite book characters.
From Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to the snozzcumber-eating, whizzpopping BFG,聽which literary characters have most captured your imaginations and why?聽Tell us聽by tweeting and using the #worldbookday hashtag and we will retweet a selection of your replies.
We also have a picture quiz on using images from our museums, galleries and other arms-length bodies to provide clues to some famous book titles.
Further information
- and try your hand at our World Book Day picture quiz
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