World Book Day
Thursday March 1, 2007
A survey to mark World Book Day has placed Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as the number one book. Dickens, Orwell and Pullman also make the top ten.
One line from the BBC website made my day:
Celebrity biographies fail to register in the top 100.
Children at my daughter’s school were allowed to leave their uniform at home today and dress as a character from a book. She chose Winnie the Witch, and as I dropped her off this morning I tried to pick out other characters – although all I saw before I had to leave was a girl in a toga (I couldn’t name the related book) and a few scruffily dressed boys. Possibly they were from Lord of the Flies.
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