Celebrating World book Day 2022
This morning, I visited St Michael's Primary in Parkhead to celebrate World Book Day's 25th anniversary and donate some books.
As ever, the kids there had made an extra-special effort to dress up as their favourite literary characters.
Each year, World Book Day creates bespoke £1 books for children and young adults across the UK and Ireland, to promote the power of imagination and the importance of reading. Through World Book Day, every child in Glasgow East will be given a £1 book token, which they can take to a bookshop or supermarket to get their free World Book Day book.
I don't underestimate the impact that World Book Day has on youngsters in the East end of Glasgow and have long been keen to champion it as the local MP, including my visit to Parkhead Community Nursery two years ago to read a bit of Supertato to them.
📚 Today is #WorldBookDay! What a pleasure it was to read to some of the kids at Parkhead Community Nursery this week. Supertato to the rescue! 🥔@headteacher15 pic.twitter.com/uUbvfBWUNc
— David Linden MP (@DavidLinden) March 5, 2020
World Book Day has been changing children's lives by encouraging a love of books and reading for a quarter of a century. Reading for pleasure makes an enormous impact on a child's future—whether that's their educational success, well-being or mental health.
World Book Day wants to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with the life-long habit of reading for pleasure that will improve their life chances.
I am delighted to celebrate my own love of reading through the World Book Day campaign and am very pleased to have been able to share that with St Michael's today.
