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The Irish title for this year’s World Book Day 2021 is Lily and the Lissadell Ghost by Judi Curtin (published by O’brien, available for €1.50 with a World Book Day token, see worldbookday.com for details). This year’s World Book Day is a packed programme of digital events featuring children’s favourites, fun online learning opportunities and a celebrity-backed mass participation campaign – World Book Day invites everyone to join the biggest celebration of books and shared reading, whatever the , on March 4.

Among the events to celebrate World Book Day are:

* Free Share a Story Live featuring children’s favourites including Humza Arshad, Alex Bellos, Sita Brahmachari, Joseph Coelho, Jonny Duddle, Tom Fletcher, Jess French, Fiona Lumbers, Ben Lyttleton, Zanib Mian, Lydia Monks and Katherine Rundell, with motivational speaker, Kenny Baraka, TV presenter, Nigel Clarke and actress, comedian and writer, Jessie Cave, as hosts.

* The Authors and Illustrators Academy – a suite of fun and fascinating tutorial videos from World Book Day £1 Book authors and illustrators (from February 1)

* A Show your Shares mass online participation campaign, which will see World Book Day champions, authors and children and families post photos of themselves sharing a story together on social media channels (from March 1)

* Online toolkits including activity sheets and discussion guides for teachers, parents and carers. World Book Day has introduced a single-use digital token, giving schools a lockdown friendly option to distribute tokens to families. The charity is working with booksellers on creative ways to get books to children across the country. Booksellers will honour the tokens through March (while stocks last).

Find out more, and join the conversation, via: worldbookday.com | @Worldbookdayuk | #Worldbookday