In Pics: Schools across Northern Ireland celebrate World Book Day 2022

Our listeners have been sending us pictures all day 📚 📸

Author: Emma DicksonPublished 3rd Mar 2022

Today we’re celebrating World Book Day – the day your social media feed is filled with children dressing up as their favourite book character.

The first World Book Day took place in 1997 to encourage young people to discover the pleasure of reading.

As each year passes, it feels like the campaign grows and grows.

Here’s some of the brilliant outfits our lovely listeners sent us in this morning…

Isla aged 4 as Mary Poppins

Chelsy aged 9 as the Queen of Hearts & Thomas as Captain America

Finlay as Ryan from Ryan's world and Millie-Rose as Alice from Alice in Wonderland

Bailey Shields aged 11 as a golden ticket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Brooke aged 7 as the Cat in the Hat

Miss Trunchbull, a policeman and farmer

Princess Belle, Loki and a T-Rex

Malachy (5) as The Big Bad wolf, Miley (11) Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, Michael (9) Greg Heffley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Maeve (7) as Ballerina from Darcey Bussels Magic Ballerina

Gangster Granny and Alice in Wonderland

Reuben as Horrid Henry

Little Miss Princess

Jackson aged 6 as Fantastic Mr Fox

Stick man

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Evelyn aged 6 as The Girl Who Wanted To Become An Astronaut

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