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	Centre for the Book \| World Book Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		World Book and Copyright Day was established internationally by UNESCO at its General Conference in 1995.
		On this day roses and books are exchanged as a gesture of “a rose for love and a book forever!” In Spain the 23rd of April commemorates the death of Miguel de Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, deemed to be finest text in the Spanish language.
		In the English-speaking world the date has also been associated with William Shakespeare, April 23, 1616 being the date of his death and some scholars stating that it was also the date of his birth 52 years earlier.
	www.centreforthebook.org.za /projects/wbd.html (305 words)

	World Book and Copyright Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Day) is a yearly event on 23 April, organised by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright.
		On World Book Day a free book token is given to all school children in the UK and Ireland.
		In 2006 World Book Day was held on 2 March in the UK and Ireland because schools were closed on Sunday, 23 April.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Book_and_Copyright_Day (433 words)

	World Book Day - About World Book Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.
		A main aim of World Book Day is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own.
		The Book Token can be exchanged for one of the ten specially published World Book Day £1 Books (where stocked and while stocks last), or is redeemable against any book or audiobook of their choice at a participating bookshop or book club (terms and conditions apply).
	www.worldbookday.com /about (396 words)

	World Book Day
		World Book Day is a worldwide celebration of books and reading marked in over 30 countries around the globe.
		To encourage that, all children are entitled to receive a £1 World Book Day voucher, which can be exchanged for one of the six specially published World Book Day £1 Books (while stocks last), or is redeemable against any book or audio-book of their choice at a participating bookshop or book club.
		A representative from Usborne Books will be at the event to enable the parents to look at and order books from their current catalogues and spend their World Book Day voucher.
	www.ucsm.ac.uk /about/news/WorldBookDay.php (316 words)

	World Book and Copyright Day - April 23: UNESCO Culture Sector
		World Book and Copyright Day - April 23: UNESCO Culture Sector
		World Book and Copyright Day - April 23
		It was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone, and in particular young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and gain a renewed respect for the irreplaceable contributions of those who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php@URL_ID=5125&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (267 words)

	World Book Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To mark World Book Day, all teachers were asked to write a short piece about their favourite book, which was then attached to the door to their classroom.
		Books are great to read for the places that they can take you to with your imagination, but they can also inspire you to try new things and think in different ways.
		The book is made up of a series of short pieces of writing – some of them are traditional short stories (including one or two fairy tales); some of them are fictional advertisements; some of them are poems; none of them is boring.
	international.stjohn.ac.th /internet$/newsite/wbd_reports.htm (6346 words)

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		World Book day virtually guarantees that you will find me in a school somewhere in the country.
		In the morning, of March 1st, I was to be found in the pretty little town of Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast, a town famous for the Aldeburgh Festival.
		The afternoon concluded with a book related quiz for which I had been asked to provide a couple of questions.
	www.geocities.com /clairerosemaryjane/worldbookday.html (224 words)

	News & Events - World Book Day 2006
		A renowned book providing one of the most important insights into Gaelic oral tradition is on display at the University of Edinburgh’s main library in celebration of World Book Day (Thursday, March 2).
		The revered Carmina Gadelica, compiled by pioneering folklorist Alexander Carmichael, is a unique record of oral traditions which capture the spirit and dignity of Gaelic communal and private life around the mid 19th century.
		World Book Day is designated by UNESCO for a global celebration of books and reading and is celebrated by countries around the world.
	www.ed.ac.uk /news/060301worldbookday.html (294 words)

	selb news world book day
		World Book Day has been designated by UNESCO as a worldwide day of celebration of books and reading, and it is marked in an ever-increasing number of countries around the globe each year.
		Throughout World Book Day a series of author interviews and other reading-related activities will be broadcast on the web, with library users having the opportunity to take part in live discussion sessions on their favourite books.
		A main aim of World Book Day is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading but World Book Day is not just for children – the Get Caught Reading initiative features well-known personalities such as Ainsley Harriott, Gaby Logan and Michael Palin amongst others, photographed reading their favourite books.
	www.selb.org /news/NEWS2003/worldbook (502 words)

	World Book Day
		World Book Day 2007 are finding out the ten most life-enhancing books according to the public.
		World Book Day will flood the nation with free postcards which will be available in bookshops, libraries, coffee shops and newspapers.
		In 2005 the classic WBD package of books, Book Tokens and school packs will be repeated, but the schools activity will be tuned to better meet the particular needs of the secondary, primary and pre-school sectors.
	www.literacytrust.org.uk /campaign/worldbookday.html (1178 words)

	Cultural Industries and enterprizes: Books and reading
		Being one of the oldest means of communication and distribution, books not only have spiritual, educational and cultural implications, but also involve the legitimate industrial and economic aspects of the publishing trade.
		This global conception of the book sector is the subject of national book policy that is peculiar to each country.
		In this respect, both the World Book and Copyright Day (23 April) and the UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance were created.
	www.unesco.org /culture/industries/book/html_eng/index_en.shtml (290 words)

	World Book Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading.
		World Book Day is about helping children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own.
		Thanks to the generosity of Book Tokens Ltd and numerous booksellers, every school child in Ireland will again receive a £1 World Book Day Book Token.
	homepage.eircom.net /~stbrigkilcoole/WorldBookDay.htm (113 words)

	World Book Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Like the international booktown movement, World Book Day is little known in Australia but has been designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading and was marked in 30 countries around the globe last year.
		Australia has had Book Week, organised by the Childrens Book Council since 1945, and this predated the UNESCO declaration of World Book and Copyright Day.
		On World Book Day (April 23) in Australia in years to come, any community - village, town suburb or city - can be a "booktown" on that day, simply by declaring its participation in the reading program with the announcement of their chosen book.
	www.booktown.com.au /world_book_day.htm (292 words)

	World Book Day - FAQs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The financing of World Book Day comes mainly from contributing publishers, the generous sponsorship of National Book Tokens Ltd, some literacy partnerships and other supporters, as well as the participating booksellers who fund the entire cost of Book Token redemption.
		NB: Since World Book Day 2004 secondary schools in the UK are required to register to participate.
		World Book Day Ltd endorses the principles recommended by the Charity Commission in consultation with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the Save The Children UK.
	www.worldbookday.com /contact/7a.asp (1456 words)

	World Book Day London — World Book Day Events in London
		World Book Day is here, and there are loads of events going on across London where you can indulge your love of reading.
		Thursday 1st March 2007 marks the 10th World Book Day and there’s no doubt that the events have reached countless amounts of people, and with any luck it’ll be around for at least another ten years longer.
		Special World Book Day £1.00 book tokens will be given out to every primary school child at schools in London and across the UK.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /world-book-day-london_index.html (302 words)

	News Story - World Book Day 2004
		World Book Day was established in 1995 by UNESCO General Conference.
		The origins of the day we now celebrate in the UK and Ireland come from Catalonia, where roses and books were given as gifts to loved ones on St. George’s Day – a tradition started some 80 years ago.
		The day is a partnership of publishers, booksellers and interested parties who work together to promote books and reading for the personal enrichment and enjoyment of all.
	www.jubileebooks.co.uk /jubilee/newsn/news_stories/2004/040303_01.asp (238 words)

	World Book Day- British Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		World Book Day is a special event for children to learn through story telling about historical cultures down the ages and to discover and enjoy the art of reading.
		Skeletons, comic book heroes and demon headmasters; these were just some of the cast of characters who made World Book Day 2005 a special day for young learners’ in Helioplolis.
		As well as listening to stories there was a wide of range of fun activities; students made model skeletons, wrote their own ghost stories, drew comics and played a lot of language games.
	www.britishcouncil.org /egypt-english-courses-young-learners-world-book-day.htm (143 words)

	Read Write Plus, DfES, World Book Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		They were launched by the Prime Minister on World Book Day (2 March 2006) with the aim of encouraging adults to pick up a book and develop a love of reading.
		World Book Day (WBD) therefore commissioned 24 top authors (such as Ruth Rendell, Nick Hornby, Ian Rankin and Maeve Binchy) to write special novels to be part of a collection called ‘Quick Reads’, targeted at adult ‘emergent’ readers.
		World Book Day has traditionally been focused on children; however, in 2006 for the first time, there is a focus on adult literacy too.
	www.dfes.gov.uk /readwriteplus/world_book_day (890 words)

	APRIL 23: WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY 4 April 1997
		In choosing April 23 as World Book and Copyright Day, UNESCO drew inspiration from a Catalan tradition.
		Books and reading are as important today as ever, according to Milagros del Corral, director of UNESCO’s Division of Creativity, Cultural Industries and Copyright.
		April 23 is a symbolic date in world literature, marking the birth or death of such writers as Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/97-54e.htm (797 words)

	World Book Day - Recommendations
		World Book Day (April 23rd) is now an official event thanks to the Catalan government pushing UNESCO to recognize it.
		Here in Barcelona the tradition is to exchange books and roses and the streets are turned into a huge book-cum-flower stall.
		Sant Jordi’s Day (April 23, aka World Book Day) is basically the Catalan Valentine’s day and Maddox’s book is the best love story, so far, of the 21st Century.
	www.barcelonareview.com /29/e_bookday.htm (554 words)

	world book day askaboutwriting
		World Book Day began in Catalonia, some 80 years ago when roses and books were given as gifts to loved ones on St George’s Day, and by 2003 was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and was marked in more than 30 countries.
		World Book Day 2004 in the UK and Ireland will take place on March 4 as a partnership of publishers, booksellers and others who promote books and reading for the enrichment and enjoyment of all.
		School children may receive a World Book Day £1, or equivalent euro, Book Token and tokens can be exchanged for one of the six specially published World Book Day £1 Books, or is redeemable against any one of the Recommended Reads, or a book or audiobook of choice.
	www.askaboutwriting.net /Lwbd.htm (319 words)

	Derbyshire County Council - Delve in to World Book Day
		A host of events are planned at Derbyshire libraries to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday (March 4).
		Children`s poet Paul Cookson will be visiting Chesterfield library on the day and there will be a coffee afternoon for members of Book Chat readers` groups to discuss their favourite book and go on-line.
		Councillor Bob Janes, the county council`s cabinet member for community services, said: "World Book Day is a chance for people across the globe to celebrate reading and books and Derbyshire is no exception.
	www.derbyshire.gov.uk /news_events/news/2004/february/delve_in_to_world_book_day.asp (381 words)

	World Book Day 2007
		World Book Day was celebrated in Britain and Ireland on Thursday, March 1st 2007.
		To mark this day, a Readathon was held in; Ennis, Ennistymon, Kildysart, Kilkee, Killaloe, Kilrush, Lisdoonvarna, Miltown Malbay, Newmarket on Fergus, Shannon, Sixmilebridge and Tulla Libraries.
		Schools and members of the public were invited to do short readings from books of their choice throughout the day in the library.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/library/services/childrens/wbd/wbd.htm (174 words)

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