Saturday 5 March 2011

WORLD BOOK NIGHT....

Tonight is World Book night....I had heard of World Book Day, but not World Book Night, How has this passed me by ?,

 World Book Night is a celebration of adult books which was started in 2001....



Last year 20,000 'givers' were chosen to distribute 40,000 copies of 25 selected book titles...

This link is for an event in Trafalgar Square, London  last night that was shown on BBC News (the coverage is15mins in, so scroll along to get to it), the event was attended by lots of Authors, including Alan Bennett who was a crowd favourite apparently, who read to the crowd, and more books were distributed...

Books were given away at events around the country, libraries and blogs, which is how I learnt about it...

Colette of Colette Moscrop had been chosen from thousands of people to be a 'giver' and had a giveaway on her blog to win a copy of...



And, I won a copy !

My book arrived this morning, just in time for me to join in tonight, and Colette had included some chocolate and a lovely colourful bookmark....




In the back of each book given away there is a unique identity code, receivers are encouraged to pass their book (once read) to someone else, who then passes it on and so on, a bit like book tag....



You can then 'track' the book as each new owner registers the book on this website and see its journey, How cool is that ?....

So, who should I pass the book on to ?

I thought it would be nice to pass it on to a reader of this blog..

So tag, you could be next, the first person to comment is it......

If you go on the World Book Night website you can register for next year....

8 comments:

  1. Ooooh me me! That book looks wonderful-I would love to read it. In fact, I can't remember the last time I read a book that wasn't a knitting pattern! xx

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  2. Goodness, could it be me???

    Clicked on your post, as had heard about Book Night briefly on the radio thismorning, but didn't know quite what it was about...

    I can then Tag & pass on too....

    Lx

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  3. I'd never heard of world book night either! What a great idea to give the books away and then pass them on. :) x

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  4. I guess being 3rd doesn't count for anything but I am so happy that books are still relished and cherished. I see so many people on my travels with Kindles et al but nothing could lure me away from the written page on real paper. I try to pass my books along as much as possible. Well done you for winning the book - can't go wrong with a bit of Alan Bennett x

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  5. I'm off to join up for next year - this is wonderful but I think was not well publicised, I knew nothing about it and didn't see anything in my library which I visit twice a week. I love the idea that the book gets passed on. Betty

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  6. What a brilliant idea. I had heard of it, and picked up more information during the TV braodcast last night.

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  7. I love that you are going to pass it on through your blog - fantastic!
    I was so inspired watching some of it on TV last night, I'm thinking I might set up a blog book review / book share sort of something - best think it through a little first.
    C x

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  8. I hadn't heard of this, either! How cool!

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