The date to remember for 2012 is Thursday 1 March. Click the option in the left-hand column to find out more about World Book Day 2011.
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Story Animation Competition
The winners of the competition were:
Reuben Wallace, Cross Ash Primary School, Abergavenny, and
Elin Sian Hughes, Ysgol y Gader, Dolgellau.
Professional animators, Turnip Starfish, will hold workshops at both schools in order to produce two short animated films based on the winning stories. Visit this site on World Book Day to view the film clips.
Reuben Wallace
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Annual World Book Day Lecture
Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Guest speaker : Ann Keane, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector
Organised by the Welsh Books Council
For further details, contact menai.williams@cllc.org.uk
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Off We Go! pack
This pack introduces a variety of reading materials on the same theme – travel – to KS2 pupils, but it could also be used in Year 7, or for transitional purposes between primary and secondary schools.
The pack includes a handbook for teachers – which gives suggestions on activities based on the texts that could be introduced in the classroom – 15 copies of the pupil’s booklet and a CD, which contains additional resources as well as the complete contents of the pupils’s booklet and the teacher’s book, for use on the electronic whiteboard.
If you would like a sample of the pack, free of charge, please contact Eirlys Parry (01970 624151
Otherwise, click on the relevant Resource in the right-hand column.
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Give a Book 2012
Give a Book to Celebrate St David's Day 2012.
Click on the Resources in the right-hand column to see this year's offers.
These are available between 13 February and 03 March 2012.
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Celebrity Posters
In a new development this year we have placed Quick Response codes on our celebrity posters. The mobile phone readable barcodes lead to information about these titles on www.gwales.com
Rhys Priestland
George North
Rhys Priestland
George North