{"id":61,"date":"2017-03-02T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T10:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-05-22T18:16:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:16:16","slug":"celebrating-world-book-day-some-of-our-favourite-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/celebrating-world-book-day-some-of-our-favourite-childrens-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating World Book Day: Some of Our Favourite Children\u2019s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Liam Owens<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock, you\u2019ll probably know that today is the 20th anniversary of World Book Day! A day dedicated to our favourite heroes and heroines of children\u2019s literature, World Book Day brings together children of all ages and promotes the importance of literacy and reading for pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>In my part time job at an arts and crafts store, I\u2019ve taken much delight in offering<br \/>\nadvice and guidance to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-19.39.22.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-03-01-at-19-39-22\" width=\"419\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-19.39.22.png 419w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-19.39.22-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-19.39.22-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/>children and parents looking for supplies to put together fancy dress costumes inspired by their favourite characters. (For the record, I\u2019ve had a Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2, <strong><em>two <\/em><\/strong>witches from Room on the Broom, a Katniss Everdeen, a Willy Wonka, and a Gandalf the Grey &#8211; <strong>all in one day, I might add!<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>As a group of researchers interested in children\u2019s literature both past and present, we simply couldn\u2019t let the day pass by unnoticed. So to celebrate, we thought we\u2019d get together to discuss some of our own favourite children\u2019s books (albeit without fancy dress, unfortunately!) As you can see, we\u2019re an eclectic bunch \u2013 our personal favourites cover virtually every aspect of children\u2019s literature: post-millennial LGBT teen fiction, girls\u2019 boarding school narratives set in the midst of the Second World War \u2013 even picturebooks illustrated in the traditional art form of the Bhitti Chitra!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World Book Day - CLUGG Members&#039; Favourite Books\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GuAuQdLmy1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So what are you doing today to celebrate World Book Day?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a favourite children\u2019s book you\u2019d like to share with us?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Owens So unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock, you\u2019ll probably know that today is the 20th anniversary of World Book Day! A day dedicated to our favourite heroes and heroines of children\u2019s literature, World Book Day brings together children of all ages and promotes the importance of literacy and reading for pleasure. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/celebrating-world-book-day-some-of-our-favourite-childrens-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating World Book Day: Some of Our Favourite Children\u2019s Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6724,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,58,56],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-literacy","tag-reading-for-pleasure","tag-world-book-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/childrensliteratureinnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}