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.

Also antigrinch loved the passion in your post!

Our school dictates the actual book, never mind the fucking author (midnight gang for dd1 and Charlie and the chocolate factory for dd2 in case anyone's interested). Utter cuntery.

This is very identifying but our pta pay for a book for each child for world book day which is great. I am seriously stressed with workload and assessment but my class love me dressing up with them and having a fun day so spending a bit of money on amazon does not stress me out too much! I am sure it's more stressful for parents but we don't have a competition so hopefully the pressure isn't as strong.

DD wants to be Mrs Pepperpot.

Great - but we don't have:

a red and white skirt
a white apron
brown shoes
or
blue tights

Can I just say busybeez99 that your comments made me actually LOL.

Agree with everything you said!

The bit I hate most is that moment in the staff room when one excessively perky teacher pipes up with 'so what are you all going to be on world book day?' And I really really want to throw my sandwich at 'em.
On the whole it isn't teachers who come up with this... Thirty over excitable kids all day and the need to come up with a fecking costume (which you forget you're wearing at the end of the day and go to the garage in....) I suspect heads teachers generally think it's jolly, plus we get lots of complaints if we do nothing despite the fact that loads can't afford it.

YANBU it's a pain in the arse and years of misery and expense for parents. Plus some children are shy and hate dressing up. I certainly did, although I can't think of one time we had to at school. All of this extra nonsense such as dressing up and numerous extra events needs to stop - all it leads to is extra work for overworked teachers and harassed parents.

Brining in a book is an excellent idea.

We're not doing it this year, thank fuck.

A friend's school is doing a book exchange instead. Bring in your old books, get a token for each one and you can use the token to 'buy' one of the donated books.

NotInMyBackYard1

Please tell me that your school is in a village with the initials WA? Otherwise there's more than one with the potato idea

You are all miserable fuckers and I wish I had world book day when I was a kid. Last year my DDs school didn't do it properly and I didn't like that. Instead it was wear pj's and bring your favourite book. Was a bit sad

Apologies if someone has suggested this, but you could dress your DCs as 'poor children' (Dahl is full of them)

Too small, slightly grubby clothes and unbrushed hair/unwashed face.

Pretty much as normal in our household, come to think of it.

Names nope - somewhere else!
what are you dressing your potato as?

AntiGrinch awesome post. I can't stand Roald Dahl's books. The last thing I want school to be reading him with my DC!

I have children who come every year as Muggles from Harry Potter. They just wear their own clothes. Cheap and cheerful and not a lot of hassle.

I hate it too and dread it from about Christmas............! This year one of mine has to do a presentation on the book his character is from so that make the whole thing even worse - we're going for Just William though - he usually looks scruffy and won't mind a bit of mud and a catapult for decoration. One went in (to an all boys' school) as The Girl in the Dress last year and OH still hasn't forgiven me (imagine likely comments from him and you'll be about right I'm sure..........). Really like the suggestion of donation for the library instead.

Used to dread World Book Day .

Glad my DCs are older now.

And to state WHAT books (by Roald Dhal I noted) makes it all the worse.

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

Mrs Trunchball?

DS is autistic and getting him to dress up can be a task in itself. 2 years running he went as a character he shares a name with and just wore normal clothes and a prop that identified him. Last year he went as a character that just wears jeans and a t-shirt.

This year his latest obsession is Lego Ninjago. I found out there are Ninjago books, so he's going as one of the Ninjas. I can't be fucked forcing him to wear something he has no understanding or enjoyment of, as much as I'd like to dress him as The Artful Dodger or Shakespeare or something.

NotInMyBackYard1

Mr Tickle inspired by Google Images
Tomorrow's fun chore!

I want a toy pheasant :(

I do have a cuddly kestrel though

I hate world book day. I was completing a pgce once and having an awful time in my final placement. The week I was supposed to go in dressed as a harry potter character but the main ones were already taken I decided to fuck it off. Best decision i ever made.
So lucky my daughter's school didn't go in for that nonsense!

Ours are doing alice in fucking stoner land. Why oh why can they not go in pjs with their fave book? Or do a free for all so the 10 year old too cool for dressing up can be a generic child from a book in own clothes, dd can wear her beloved dinosaur onesie and the 4 year old whatever he decides will be suitable depending on whether it is a day that embraces dressing up or a day where dressing up is the scariest thing in the world? Nope we have to do alice and dd wants to be the Cheshire cat but has the book with original illustrations so wants to be a tabby type cat so I know she will be upset after school because she will have been teased by Disney devotees for being the wrong colour, ds1 doesn't care and will probably yell at me at the 11th hour for getting it wrong and ds2 doesn't have a clue on account of being 4 and never having read it because frankly it is shit and reading it out loud to dd was painful enough and I'm not keen to repeat the experience and he can't read well enough for it.

What annoys me about this is that just because these things have been done in previous years, doesn't mean that schools should have to KEEP doing them, cause it's "tradition" now. Why can't they just break the mould and do their own thing! Have a "book day" once a month where they get to lounge on bean bags reading and get into groups to re-enact stories, raise money for local charities of the kids voting rather than the same ones every year, god forbid a school choses something other than CIN and sports relief to support!!!!

nope. This is what we've starting doing so now we have to keep doing it every year even though parents and teachers hate it and kids don't learn anything about books cause they're all just in whatever Sainsburys costumes were to hand…

Whoops I love world book day and it really annoys me that my DD new school doesn't celebrate it !

Every year:

48% Disney princesses
32% Harry Potters
12% Super heros
6% Where's wallys
2% Something to do with a book that the child is currently reading