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Getting a princess poppy (trolls movie) costume for world book day

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Musereader · 27/02/2022 12:48

Dd is 5 and not quite reading yet, but her favourite movie is trolls and I'm struggling with ideas for world book day for something not overly girly as she is not a girly girl that wears dresses, she prefers to wear jeans. I'm sure there are some books with princess poppy in by now.

Otherwise I was going to go for Alice or Dorothy.

Fwiw her cousin is going as Iron Man, who is probably in many books but did not start there.

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Onlyforcake · 27/02/2022 12:49

Iron man started in comics.

Onlyforcake · 27/02/2022 12:50

In 1963. Hth.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 27/02/2022 12:51

It really doesn't matter. DD is going as Mary Poppins because that's what she wanted and I can't bring myself to care if it fits the theme or not.

Watto1 · 27/02/2022 12:52

I find the trick with world book day costumes is to start with what costumes you have and then work backwards to try to shoehorn it into a book! When dd was 5, she already had a witch costume from Halloween so on WBD she went as Meg from Meg and Mog.

SoupDragon · 27/02/2022 12:52

@HalfShrunkMoreToGo

It really doesn't matter. DD is going as Mary Poppins because that's what she wanted and I can't bring myself to care if it fits the theme or not.
Mary Poppins is from a book though.
SarahWoodruff · 27/02/2022 12:54

World Book Day is a bit of a nonsense anyway, so it doesn't matter. But there probably are easier book-related options. If there's any value in the whole thing it's surely making children feel that books (not TV/ films/screens) are fun. In case it helps, my DD is going as Sophie from the BFG: pyjamas and a homemade cardboard bottle of Frobscottle. (Cut a bottle shape from an old shoe box, got DD to paint it. 5 mins.)

Grilledaubergines · 27/02/2022 12:56

Does she not have favourites of books that you read to her though? Whether she reads herself or not isn’t so important but surely the point is it’s about books? There is no end to ideas from age appropriate books.

SoupDragon · 27/02/2022 12:56

Ordinary clothes plus a stuffed bear in a fishing net = we're going on a bear hunt.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 27/02/2022 12:56

@SoupDragon but DD hasn't read it, she just likes singing 1 line of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious over and over again 😂

BTW don't read the Sound of Music book if you like the film, it is truly depressing, in a had me in tears kind of way that now makes me a bit sadder when I watch the film.

SoupDragon · 27/02/2022 12:57

Whether or not she's read it, it is at least a book 😂

Drywhitefruitycidergin · 27/02/2022 12:58

With pfb dd1 I was always insistent that she wasn't going as Elsa coz it wasn't a book blah blah cue confusion from 4 year old because a) she had a frozen book and b) everyone else went as Elsa. I was fine for her to choose the actual Snow Queen.
Now 7 years later I really don't care. I'd prefer them to come from an actual book. We have thousands of them in the house.
Dd2 will be Madeline this year. It was a book first but she chose character from the film.....

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Musereader · 27/02/2022 13:09

The books I read to her are the generic fairy tales for kids, 3 little pigs, sleeping beauty, red riding hood, Billy goats gruff etc , she has some peppa pig ones and some paw patrol ones too, but she does not have the patience for Alice in wonderland or even Beatrix Potter, we are still on 8 page board books, which is totally unlike me as I was reading before school and was reading Noddy and other Enid Blyton books when I was 5. I even bought a beautiful illustrated Enchanted wood book and she got bored 1 page in.

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IsThisAkissingBook · 27/02/2022 13:12

Last time our school did book day was 2020. My son went as rodrick. Painted loaded diper on a plain black tshirt, black jeans and black converse.

Getting a princess poppy (trolls movie) costume for world book day
Redlorryyellowduck · 27/02/2022 13:20

Dd5 has loads of Disney princess type dress ups. She wants to wear one of those so she can. We read plenty and I'm not buying new, whether it's a book or not I really don't care.

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Musereader · 27/02/2022 14:54

Are there any recognisable female book characters that wear jeans? Or even a male one that dd can pull off?

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SoupDragon · 27/02/2022 14:57

a "Going on a bear hunt" character could wear jeans. And wellies for the muddy bits. Most kids have heard of the book.

CowboyJo · 27/02/2022 14:59

Horrid henry?
Arthur?
Fern arable (charlotte's web)?

NuffSaidSam · 27/02/2022 15:04

@Musereader

Are there any recognisable female book characters that wear jeans? Or even a male one that dd can pull off?
About a million. Just pick a book that is about a normal girl and send her in normal clothes.

Any of the Shirley Hughes ones as a starting point. But also, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, David Walliams etc. etc.

hupfpferd · 27/02/2022 15:04

Princess smartypants is an easy and not too girly one.

NerrSnerr · 27/02/2022 15:08

Lola from Charlie and Lola wears normal clothes.

What books does she like you reading to her? Start from there.

N0T0RI0US · 27/02/2022 15:08

My DS is going as King Henry VIII

His choice, and he does have a ladybird book on Kings and Queens so why not.

No one said it had to be fiction.

N0T0RI0US · 27/02/2022 15:13

Also I have always let my child choose.

I don't care if its a book of the film or a comic or whatever. If its a book they like it's fine by me, that is the point of the day.

They are small children, and don't care a jot about adult snobbery and classic literature!

Nanny0gg · 27/02/2022 15:15

@HalfShrunkMoreToGo

It really doesn't matter. DD is going as Mary Poppins because that's what she wanted and I can't bring myself to care if it fits the theme or not.
But Mary Poppins is a book!

A series of 3 IIRC.

Nanny0gg · 27/02/2022 15:17

@Musereader

The books I read to her are the generic fairy tales for kids, 3 little pigs, sleeping beauty, red riding hood, Billy goats gruff etc , she has some peppa pig ones and some paw patrol ones too, but she does not have the patience for Alice in wonderland or even Beatrix Potter, we are still on 8 page board books, which is totally unlike me as I was reading before school and was reading Noddy and other Enid Blyton books when I was 5. I even bought a beautiful illustrated Enchanted wood book and she got bored 1 page in.
Oh God!

They're not 'generic' really. They're adapted from Grimm so they are actual written as books, stories

Nanny0gg · 27/02/2022 15:19

There are loads of characters from books I'm sure you've all read to your DC or have around the house.

Disney did NOT invent fairy tales! They were around a few hundred years earlier