World Book Day📚

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World Book Day in United Nations in 2025 — Image by Eli Digital Creative , from Pixabay. CC0

About World Book Day

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Dates of World Book Day
2026 United Nations Friday, March 6thWorld Book Day 2025 United Nations Thursday, March 6thWorld Book Day 2024 United Nations Thursday, March 7thWorld Book Day 2023 United Nations Thursday, March 2ndWorld Book Day 2022 United Nations Thursday, March 3rdWorld Book Day
Summary
World Book Day is a global celebration of books and reading that is observed in more than 100 countries.
World Book Day in other countries
World Book Day internationally

According to the official website of World Book Day, the event aims to transform lives through a love of books and shared reading. Its mission is to encourage reading for pleasure and provide every child and young person with the opportunity to own a book.

This Day is to encourage young readers all over the world to discover the joy of reading, getting to love the characters, stores, facts and gaining knowledge from Books.

World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March. On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK is given a voucher to be spent on books; the event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1995.

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Did you know? The distinctive smell of old books is caused by the breaking down of lignin, a complex chemical present in paper and closely related to vanillin.

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