To think Transformers is not a book!

[BasilFaulty]

Come on, really?
Bloody World Book Day.
Just call it Superhero and Disney Princess Day and have done with it.

YABU. who cares

It's a bit of fun, engages the kids. There are Transformers books anyway.

they appear in books and comics - lots of parents are skint and use what they all ready have - YABU to give a toss what other people dress their kids in

You do realise there are also books with stories about superheros, Disney princesses and probably transformers too.....

Thank GOD we don’t have to suffer WBD at my sons daycare, but currently if he had to dress up as a book character he’d choose Silver Banshee. A bloody female villain that Superman battles. No-one would have a clue who it was, and I would have no clue how to make a sodding silver banshee outfit!

Yabu but you just want to have a bit of a smug moment of course you get transformers in books, parents have enough to bloody do without delving into the "dress up box " for inventive costumes.

I fucking hate world book day. Do not have time to be making a bespoke costume not the inclination to spend money on another dressing up outfit. If a kid wants to wear a transformers outfit then let them.

Have our ever considered parents don't want to spend upwards of £10/15 on outfits their kids will wear once so dress them in stuff they already have at home ?🙄

When mine were in primary they took on their favourite book and one for s book bank and got a book token in returnnone of this dress up hoha.

I think some people are being really mean about what some kids are dressed as. It’s so unnecessary. Maybe the parents didn’t have enough money to buy a new outfit! And not everyone is able to make one either. Why do you care?!

Jesus, get a life.

It’s a bit of fun. Calm down.

YABU, who cares

Imo book day costumes are just another stick to beat women with, and I bet in the majority of homes it’s the mum’s job to sort out

Just more bloody wife work!

It is a book

I think there are two threads about this...im sure ive already said this

I agree just something else for mums to do.

When my DCs were at primary school, early days of WBD, there were no manufactured costumes. The costumes were home made with what was at hand. Much more fun and cheaper. DS went as Just William in his dad’s cut down suit.
It’s a shame there’s such a commercial element now. Better to spend the money on an actual book.

Book day is about encouraging a love of stories and reading. My eldest loves the transformer magazines and reads them cover to cover.

Mine are going dressed as Disney characters. I don't have the corresponding book to send them with so I'll send them with their favourites. I used to be sanctimonious like you. In reality if I'm spending £30 on two costumes I'll get something they'll play with a lot at home. So what? I don't have the headspace to make two costumes.

Whatever.
Do you think dressing your child as a "proper" book character is going to make them more literate?
A few years ago my DCs school had them dressing up a ridiculous amount. Made me so pissed off.
I inherited a sheep onesie from a friend, so every WBD whichever of my DC it just about fitted would wear it. Sometimes we forgot which book the sheep was supposed to be from!

Oh who fucking cares.

Comics/graphic novels

Surely that's a book of sorts?

Who's it harming anyway

Yabu I've sent mine in princess dresses that they had in the dress up box. I didn't have the time or money to provide them with anything more original I would have loved for them to have a better costume. Parents have enough guilt without posts like this.

transformers dates back to first book in 2002 op

18 years ago.

is that ok?

Of course it's not. But so many people are proud of not reading, not liking books, that reading is boring and boasting about putting a tv in the bedroom of a 3 year old.

Add the need to compete and spend ridiculous amounts on a costume their kids will wear once...

It's all rather pathetic really. And that's from someone who doesn't do crafts, hate it, haven't got time to do it.

Parents buy a costume and then desperately try to find something with pages that could vaguely relate. Then moan that WBD is pointless.

probably same parents who take their kids on holiday during school term and then complain that official school holidays are too long. Idiots-

Pretty sure I remember reading Transformers books or comics to my little brother in the 80s (he was obsessed with them).
(halo for me as a very bored teen sister )