World Book Day

[popcorndiva]

When did World Book Day become wear something from a Marvel/Disney/Pixar movie Day

Is it just me that thinks the amount of screen time children get now that schools should encourage purely books today not films .

I remember when I was young dressing up was not a thing we did a sponsored spellings or reading etc. The focus was on literacy anyway.

AIBU - it's just fun and kids don't read books now
YABU - yes it's annoying kids should be Book characters only

Every year someone posts this about marvel/dc with kids wearing super hero's outfits. You are aware marvel and dc where popular comics that you read it's really not hard to grasp.

@alwaysmyfault

I teach year 6 and we had one child come in as Tommy Shelby ( Peaky Blinders), one as a character from Squid Game and Two were Mr Bean. Ridiculous.

You know Mr Bean is a kids TV show right?

For a few years now our primary school does a PJ and bring your favorite book day on WBD. It's great, no fuss over costumes and some children just choose to wear a dressing gown over their regular clothes. No monetary donations on this day, for the last hour the children cosy up to read/ be read to with popcorn. It's lovely and easy

@Bananarama21

Every year someone posts this about marvel/dc with kids wearing super hero's outfits. You are aware marvel and dc where popular comics that you read it's really not hard to grasp.

I assume its either ignorance over origins or snobbery over comics not counting as proper literature

MN calendar of which posts you will see and when.

January - New Years resolutions are a load of bollocks/best thing ever

February - it's stupid to care about Valentines Day, he didn't get me anything for Valentines Day, and the only acceptable pancakes are thin crepe style ones (from scratch)

March - WBD and all the lazy fuckers using store-bought Disney costumes. This is followed by Mothers Day and "no one got me anything" vs "anyone expecting gifts is wrong, the children are the gift". There will be a minimum of five threads about the word "mom" spotted on a card in a shop and this is a sign of encroaching Americanisms. These posters will be shocked to realise that Birmingham exists.

April - Easter and the judgement around giving DC "too many" chocolate eggs (on MN "too many" ranges somewhere between zero and one), for variety there will be a few "MIL gave my 5.9 month old baby a sniff of chocolate, I'm going NC" threads

May/June - where should we go on holiday?

July/August - we're on holiday and I hate it

September - back to school and everyone is either elated or devasted, uniform violations abound

October - Halloween and trick or treating are horrid American imports. These posters are shocked to learn that Scotland, Northern Ireland, and NE England exist.

November - fuck off, fireworks

December - chaos. Santa is a horrid American import, the posters are once again shocked to learn that Scotland, NI, and NE England still exist. The in-laws are visiting. The in-laws aren't visiting. Someone dared to buy a child a gift. Someone is doing Christmas differently to how the OP does Christmas, burn the witch.

It's the circle of life.

@Bananarama21

Every year someone posts this about marvel/dc with kids wearing super hero's outfits. You are aware marvel and dc where popular comics that you read it's really not hard to grasp.

Graphic novel snobbery, usually.

Although possibly not in this OP’s case. Seems more like she didn’t realise that those characters originated in books, not films.

My daughter went as a 16 year old teenager (what she is) as she said there must be tons of books about ordinary people.
She did say the little kids were really cute in their costumes. She was fairly taken aback that they were still expected to do this sort of thing in sixth form!

Legoisthebest I will never understand the thought process behind it, if indeed, there is any thought process.

My daughter didn't say anything, but she was very upset about it, because my 90-something year old grandmother/her great-grandmother is a survivor. She still has her badge. A real one. My daughter has seen it. Held it. This is living history with generational trauma. It isn't cosplay for others.

I don't think there should be dressing up at all. Given how financially poor or time restricted many parents are. Focus on the books, encourage reading.

I actually did a project with my class this World Book Day about how TV programmes and Films can get people into books. We watched a clip of the author Lauren Child (Charlie and Lola series etc) talking about how when she was young she liked the Little House on the Prairie TV series and was then amazed to go to the library and discover it was a series of books first, which she then read. We did an activity sorting ones that were books first (such as Matilda, Harry Potter, Horrid Henry comic book heroes such as Spider-Man) and which were TV/film first and books made retrospectively (such as Peppa, Paw Patrol and Disney). We then made our own mini “book trailers” like film trailers to recommend a favourite book.

@Hospedia

MN calendar of which posts you will see and when.

January - New Years resolutions are a load of bollocks/best thing ever

February - it's stupid to care about Valentines Day, he didn't get me anything for Valentines Day, and the only acceptable pancakes are thin crepe style ones (from scratch)

March - WBD and all the lazy fuckers using store-bought Disney costumes. This is followed by Mothers Day and "no one got me anything" vs "anyone expecting gifts is wrong, the children are the gift". There will be a minimum of five threads about the word "mom" spotted on a card in a shop and this is a sign of encroaching Americanisms. These posters will be shocked to realise that Birmingham exists.

April - Easter and the judgement around giving DC "too many" chocolate eggs (on MN "too many" ranges somewhere between zero and one), for variety there will be a few "MIL gave my 5.9 month old baby a sniff of chocolate, I'm going NC" threads

May/June - where should we go on holiday?

July/August - we're on holiday and I hate it

September - back to school and everyone is either elated or devasted, uniform violations abound

October - Halloween and trick or treating are horrid American imports. These posters are shocked to learn that Scotland, Northern Ireland, and NE England exist.

November - fuck off, fireworks

December - chaos. Santa is a horrid American import, the posters are once again shocked to learn that Scotland, NI, and NE England still exist. The in-laws are visiting. The in-laws aren't visiting. Someone dared to buy a child a gift. Someone is doing Christmas differently to how the OP does Christmas, burn the witch.

It's the circle of life.

Best post ever.

@Hospedia also the floating dates of birthdays (you're too old to celebrate now you're an adult / never buy him anything again if he doesn't buy you something) and anniversaries (you're an adult, only children need presents)

@Hospedia - Just wonderful 😂

@Hospedia

MN calendar of which posts you will see and when.

January - New Years resolutions are a load of bollocks/best thing ever

February - it's stupid to care about Valentines Day, he didn't get me anything for Valentines Day, and the only acceptable pancakes are thin crepe style ones (from scratch)

March - WBD and all the lazy fuckers using store-bought Disney costumes. This is followed by Mothers Day and "no one got me anything" vs "anyone expecting gifts is wrong, the children are the gift". There will be a minimum of five threads about the word "mom" spotted on a card in a shop and this is a sign of encroaching Americanisms. These posters will be shocked to realise that Birmingham exists.

April - Easter and the judgement around giving DC "too many" chocolate eggs (on MN "too many" ranges somewhere between zero and one), for variety there will be a few "MIL gave my 5.9 month old baby a sniff of chocolate, I'm going NC" threads

May/June - where should we go on holiday?

July/August - we're on holiday and I hate it

September - back to school and everyone is either elated or devasted, uniform violations abound

October - Halloween and trick or treating are horrid American imports. These posters are shocked to learn that Scotland, Northern Ireland, and NE England exist.

November - fuck off, fireworks

December - chaos. Santa is a horrid American import, the posters are once again shocked to learn that Scotland, NI, and NE England still exist. The in-laws are visiting. The in-laws aren't visiting. Someone dared to buy a child a gift. Someone is doing Christmas differently to how the OP does Christmas, burn the witch.

It's the circle of life.

Brilliant, so true! You also need to add the Grand National in April. AIBU The GN should be banned it's cruel/YABU the horses love to run and get treated like royalty!

Good books get made into movies but they are still book characters

@MrsToadflax

I agree that the dress-up angle has hijacked the day and allowed a lot of schools to do that and little else. Our school is also doing a book swap which I think is great, but I would rather other fun reading activities were suggested, rather than the commercialised dress-up aspect.

I agree- As a LSA, seeing 13 Elsas and 8 spidermen does absolutely nothing to promote reading, which is the purpose of the day! We didn't dress up this year, but paired up to read with a different class with a book brought from home.

We also had lots of lovely activities literacy based activities to introduce the children to new literature. We also had a special assembly with a local children's author/illustrator.

It was fab!!!!

My DD had science all day on World Book Day. They didn’t even read. Why they needed to dress up, I don’t know. Call it World Fancy Dress Day, who flipping cares. All I know is it cost me another £20 for an outfit my 6 year old will never wear again and my DD got to wear an outfit nobody even asked about.

Why spend that much tho if she doesn't like dressing up at home?

Comics and graphic novels are great for kids. They’re appealing to those who might not want to sit down with a book. I don’t see an issue with marvel.

Right side soldier left side hippie war and peace hard to do but good

This year's theme is all about it being okay to read what you want, do it your way, any way, etc.

So story books, graphic novels, poetry, non fiction, magazines, recipe cards, you name it - if it encourages reading, anything goes,

And if you are going to have dress up liked to WBD - why make it more difficult. There are thousands and thousands of children's books about - pretty much any costume a child already has could have a book of some form linked to it,

Urgh - old thread!