To ask what IS the point of dressing up on world book day?

[malificent7]

Stressful and expensive for parents. Do they actually learn more by dressing up?
Do it make them think about books more or something?
Id much rather they did some book related activities on the day and perhaos a tiny bit of non expensive homework.

After all that stress and expense many schools were shut anyway. At 9 dd just wants to go in jeans and t shirt anyway.pah!

There doesn't seem to be any point.
One of my DC's is ok with it, never been excited though.
Whereas the other one has had meltdowns in the past. I have to be a master negotiator to get her to do it .

School scrapped the dressing up part this year. They only have to take a favourite book in.

Just dress them up in casual clothes and they can pretend to be any character from any book. I mean, all book characters must've dressed casually on some days right?

In my day we walked backwards in the snow uphill just to ask Sir to give us the cane.

😂😂😂

I do have a costume and prop making gene so not a problem for me and have made stuff for theatre productions but I do get why people find it an inconvenience.

Jack Dees sketch on parents being asked to dress up their dc at nursery school.

I really cannot see how any of it would actually encourage a child to read more.

What a pity you didn’t, er, read the thread and see the people sharing their experiences of children seeking out new books because of another child’s costume.

I’ll add mine: DS1 (6) came home bubbling about what his classmates had worn, and wanting to read some of the books other kids’ characters came from as they discussed them all in class.

Mine came from World Book Day last year demanding to read several books, series because his friends were dressed as them or he had had part of a book read to him by older children.
This year each class was given an author, I suggested various characters that I knew how we could do them but no he was determined to be something I couldn't cobble together from stuff we have and I wasn't prepared to by a costume so I googled "how to make a (insert creature here) costume" and got lots of easy suggestion on how to do it. It cost £1.28 to buy a couple of craft supplies. Last year his absolute favourite book was the Book With No pictures I wrote some words from the book on an about to be grown out of white t-shirt.