World Book Day is an annual event that celebrates authors, illustrators and our favourite books and characters. Children in the UK attend school dressed as their favourite book characters.

For years on World Book Day, parents have been asked to dress their children up as book characters, and social media feeds have filled up with pictures of kids in costumes. But now some schools ...

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