Ideas for book week dressing up please!!

[sparklymieow]

Ds and dd1's school have book week next month and the school is being tranformed into a castle for the week, the children can dress up as a book character from any fable, mtyh, legend or fairy tale.
I have no ideas.

Greek soldiers
Greek gods (togas and such like)
Fairies
Witches
Vikings
Monsters/mythical creatures (Medusa with snake hair, Cyclops, Minotaur! etc)
Medieval Princesses (pointy hats and scarves, whimples, etc)
Green Giant
Mermaid
?????????

AS A BOOK? or as a character from a book
in ds school, harry potter was a favourite, as was easy, [just buy from m and s]

DD wore her Snow White dress one year.
Last year she went as a Tooth Fairy - fairy outfit and wand/wings. You can get cheap wand/wings and tiaras from H & M.

everyone at our school goes as either a disney princess (girls) or spiderman (in a book?? errr) or robin hood (boys).
Ds1 went as King Arthur last year and the mouse from the Gruffalo the year before.
Persoanlly I think the key to dressing up is that the child has to wear the outfit all day, so make it strip down to something comfortable iyswim. EG ds1's mouse was ultimately a grey T shirt and trousers.
DD has started school and I am determined she will be Red Riding Hood, how hard can that be, plain dress with white pinny, red cape, basket of food, and it's a book she loves.
Otherwise, how about
Horrid Henry (very easy)
Harry Potter
a dalmation (from 101 dalmations)
Peter Rabbit
ANy historical character (cf King Arthur; a friends boy went as William Wallace)
Or could they go as a double act, like Alfie and Annie Rose, or the Lola and her brother from I will never eat a tomato?
(if it's slightly obscure, I find it helps to take the book in with you!)

I would love to sent them as something medival, but I have the sewing skills of a mouse (ie none!! )

It's just another clever way to torture mothers and is no value at all educationally, IMO.
But Burglar Bill is an excellent idea that I shall file away

possibly no good for your myths one but for dd1;s book day she went as Angelina Ballerina and, says Hatstand swelling with pride, won a prize. (which, oddly enough, she used to buy Burglar Bill) but AB was very easy - she wore a t-shirt with a picture of ballet shoes on it, her ballet skirt, a mouse tail made of fur material and furry ears and whiskers - all of which she had anyway