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more world book day rage

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kennycat · 26/02/2017 20:41

I've just discovered my daughter's year group are meant to go on world book day as a superhero.
No, just no. What is this craze for superheroes? I have never read a superhero book with my daughter.
Literally since last world book day she has been wanting to go at Sophie from the tiger who came to tea, and we've spent the holiday making the tights and tiger food tin.
I want her to still go as what she planned to go as but I don't want her to feel silly if everyone else is in some hideous supermarket bought olyester monstrosity.

Can you tell I really hate manyfacturerd dressing up outfits?!

I think I did see the note from school but must have discarded it when I saw the title as I probably thought, ' yes I know what world book day is'.

I've read lots of other people saying that their schools are telling children what to dress as (roads Dahl character, superhero etc). It's world book day ffs, that surely means any book the children love.

Not a film based on a book/cartoon that the child has never read!!

I'm annoyed, as you can probably tell.

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KermitRuffinsTrumpet · 27/02/2017 15:07

Ooh superworm! That'd be my choice!

Hats off to those colouring in white tights for Sophie Halo

Blossomdeary · 27/02/2017 15:13

Send her exactly as you planned. The Tiger is definitely the hero of that lovely book.

I am glad that when my children were small we were not constantly having to come up with some costume/gimmick or another for school. My DDs seem to spend a lot of time on this sort of thing for the GC!

EineKleine · 27/02/2017 15:19

Why on earth make them dress as anything other than their favourite (easy to do) character? It surely takes away from the whole point of the thing. Half the boys dress as Batman or Superman for these things anyway, until Juniors when it's football kit.

Sophie hugs that tiger, that's pretty superhero-ish to me.

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