Cunting World Fucking Book Day.

[EssieTregowan]

I thought I was doing so well this year. DS2 wanted to be Newt Scamander so I found an awesome (and not cheap) costume. DD has a proper wand from the Harry Potter tour so she was lending him that and we have the original book. He was prancing around tonight trying it on.

I double checked the email just to make sure it is actually this Thursday (I have form for getting dates completely wrong, in fact just this week we turned up to the dentists a month early...)

'Come as your favourite Roald Dahl character' it says. Fuckers.

I am so so shit at this.

It kind of works as Willy Wonka if you squint a bit.

Anyone else as fucking shit as me? I hate World Book Day anyway. Still, this beats the time incompletely forgot so ds1 went as Charlie Bucket, ie wearing normal clothes.

I hate these primary school days when you feel forced to send your kids in fancy dress. I think my daughter's school may have had some negative feedback as they aren't doing it this time.
Thank god my eldest is now at middle school and we don't have to do any of this shit for him!

DS went as George from George's Marvellous Medicine.

Teacher asked who he was?!?!?!?!?!?

Ds replied, have you read many Roald Dahl's miss? Same teacher had never heard Johnnie Cash's Boy Named Sue, ds educated her about that too.

He was 11.

I'm glad those days are over.

Our school is wonderfully not doing the dressing up bollocks this year which I think is marvellous .
My Facebook has parents whinging about this fact ! The school can't win .

DD had to be a cat in the Christmas play, and I can't be fucked to pay out money / waste energy on getting / making another costume, so she's going as a bastard cat for world book day. Debating whether to say it's Jess from Postman man or Mog from the Mog series ignores fact that Mog wasn't a black cat

My ds9 is going as a footballer! He hates dressing up but will wear his football kit all the time so that's him. And before anyone says that's not out of a book, he'll be taking the world football 2017 annual
Ds5 wants to go as a pirate I think. I don't mind buying for him as he will wear it all over the house and to parties etc, he loves dressing up

KitKat, she can be Gobbolino the Witch's Cat.

toy pheasant if you have one

reminds me of what DH & I still many years later refer to as the aardvark costume situation, just about to leave house to go to nursery when kid pipes up that they have to go in aardvark costume that day...
I was in a secondary school (supply teacher) last year when all the staff were told they also had to dress up. many, many 'Woman in Black' just wearing a black dress...
Was mayhem with kids all shrieking at each other about their costumes, losing bits, getting upset that their tiaras had got damaged etc...
Utter waste of time. Distraction from yer actual...learning...

Excellent idea PoorYorick.

I would send him in the costume you bought him if he likes it. I'm sure he won't be only one not quite Roald Dahl. At least he is an actual characters from a proper book. BTW, your language is rather blue, it's not really something to get all that worked up about surely!

My DDog has a toy pheasant too! Except he killed it and took out the stuffing and squeaker. Definitely not fancy dress worthy!

I've reread our letter, I think the teachers are all dressing up as Roald Dahl characters and kids can go as any book character. Only seems 5 minutes ago that I was making a golden ticket. Why couldn't someone have kept the stupid thing, took me ages to master the willy wonker font too!

Was chatting about wbd with some brownies today and they've been give the lion, the witch and the wardrobe as their theme,
'oh have you been reading it in class?' 'No, but we did watch the film'

That's the spirit...

Roald Dahl, you all say?

Boys in old, worn clothes - Charlie Bucket. Girls, school uniform and carry a few books - Matilda. Or nightdress and glasses - Sophie. Indian with a son and want to be a smartarse? Traditional dress and he is Imrhat Khan from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (teach kids that Dahl wasn't just a children's author!).

It is worse here in Wales. Eisteddfod means that both my dc have to do a DT project and a cookery competition to be handed in on Monday. They are both entered in the recitation and the song, so I have to bully them into learning a song in welsh (we are not welsh speakers so it is really hard) and practise their violin that they are both performing in the competition on Wednesday with.

All that followed by world book day on Friday....

My friend's DS's year group was once asked to dress up as a character from the enormous turnip!

What's wrong with a character from 'a book'.

Oh I'm so pleased that I haven't had to do WBD for years now. The Head would always award prize for best costume to someone in a Tesco outfit, not to kids who'd actually tried. She was a shit Head though, and luckily left under a cloud.

Mrsglitterfairy

My ds and I were discussing this today, He will happily go in his Liverpool kit with his Liverpool annual (which the school gave him for Christmas) But I/him/we know that that will not be accepted and he will look out of place with this particular dress up day he is already bullied as he likes sport

This year - school has decreed that each child must dress a potato as a book character - yes you read that correctly. A bloody potato

I think the idea of World Book day is lovely, however it's ruined by two things for me. The first is the fact that the school dictates which book the characters you dress up as, come from. WTF! I thought the point was to celebrate books in general, gotta be honest, I'm fucking sick of Roald Dahl! The second thing is having to participate in a conversation about what costume you are going to make the DC's. Well, actually, I'm making fuck all! All costumes come from Amazon, thank God! I'm shit at making stuff like that and I have a million other things to do! Where do they find the time? I then have to smile politely while they throw increasingly crazy ideas at me in an effort to make me see the error if my lazy ways and get my non existent sewing kit out. Fuck off! I have a life!!!

And breathe...

I had ours planned too.
Dt1 princess and the pea. Dress and tiara and i was going to make a pea.
Dt2 tiger costume which she has and i was going to pin some tea cups and toy food to her to make the tiger who came for tea.

However the school are doing a pj day and will be sharing their favourite bedtime stories which is all well and good but i was so pleased with my no cost efforts that I'm a bit miffed.

Ours is a 'traditional' story character. I am sending DS in a dinosaur onesie that he got for Christmas. My thinking is that can't get more traditional than a stegosaurus.

Girls with crowns and princess dresses could be the Queen. She's in The BFG.

Both dc in Secondary now

Man why do they specify a particular book? That's ridiculous. My two are going as Harry Potter. As are my friend's kids. Whilst I loved the Harry Potter books my kids only know him from the films so not sure it counts. Their old school did pj's and bedtime stories, so much easier. I'm a teacher and hate any kind of dressing up teacher participation.

I'm a teacher and I bloody hate the school dress-up days. My default character is "miserable teacher who gives not one shit".

This year, world book day falls on the day I don't teach and also our county review day where I have to give a presentation to our school improvement partner about progress of our SEN and EAL children.

I'm considering dressing as Elphaba.

James Bond?