{"id":345,"date":"2014-02-03T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2018-08-24T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T11:07:02","slug":"world-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/world-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the month of February LittleBird will be celebrating World Book Day with fun facts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/user\/register?source=bookday&amp;destination=me-books\">free gifts<\/a> and competition giveaways.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.egmont.co.uk\/\">Egmont<\/a>\u00a0have given us four fabulous books to give away this week \u2013 I am Not A Loser by Barry Loser \u2013 Spellchecked by Jim Smith, Mr Tickle by Roger Hargreaves, You\u2019re a Bad Man, Mr.Gum! by Andy Stanton and Thomas The Tank Engine by W.Awdry\u00a0 and have compiled a wonderful selection of fun facts and Did You Know..? about the books, their characters and their authors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Share, enjoy and have fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405260312.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-346\" alt=\"9781405260312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405260312.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405260312.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405260312-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Barry Loser<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barry Loser was originally called Barry Nothing.<\/li>\n<li>Jim Smith is also Waldo Pancake, designer of fab cards and gifts (<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/waldopancake.com\/\">http:\/\/waldopancake.com\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Jim\u2019s favourite possession is his 1970s electric pencil sharpener<\/li>\n<li>Barry Loser is a WBD title for 2014 (<i>I am nit a Loser<\/i>) and the second title in the series, <i>I am still not a Loser<\/i>, won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2013<\/li>\n<li>You can ask Barry anything you like at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/email.itlab.com\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=kcajWB56IUGUFWwiJuxTvkCBi3lk9NAIsu2KqyV9XcXLbeG_P3hBH2vYfEORDwnbXSILl5FkMsk.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.barryloser.com%2fask-barry%2f\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.barryloser.com\/ask-barry\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405223102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-347\" alt=\"9781405223102\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405223102.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405223102.jpg 354w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405223102-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mr Gum<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In France Mr Gum is called Monsieur Schnock<\/li>\n<li>The character Friday O\u2019Leary was originally going to be called McGulliver<\/li>\n<li>Andy Stanton once fitted a whole snooker ball in his mouth.\u00a0 Do not try this at home, it did not end well.<\/li>\n<li>Andy\u2019s parents have never been to see one of his events \u2013 he\u2019s too embarrassed to invite them<\/li>\n<li>You can win a signed Mr Gum certificate from Andy Stanton by joining in the fun at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/email.itlab.com\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=kcajWB56IUGUFWwiJuxTvkCBi3lk9NAIsu2KqyV9XcXLbeG_P3hBH2vYfEORDwnbXSILl5FkMsk.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.mrgum.co.uk%2fsend.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mrgum.co.uk\/send.htm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405234474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-348\" alt=\"9781405234474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405234474.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405234474.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405234474-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thomas<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas the Tank Engine will celebrate his 70<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Reverend Awdry, the author of the Classic Railway Series, first thought up the idea for Thomas when he was entertaining his son Christopher, who was ill with measles.<\/li>\n<li>Over 200 million Thomas and Friends books have been sold worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas &amp; Friends has been the number 1 pre-school toy property for 13 consecutive years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405235617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-349\" alt=\"9781405235617\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405235617.jpg\" width=\"549\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405235617.jpg 549w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9781405235617-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mr Men<\/span><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are over 80 books in the iconic Mr. Men and Little Miss Classic Story Book series<\/li>\n<li>Mr Tickle was first published in 1971<\/li>\n<li>The Mr. Men Magic range was awarded Gold in the books category of the Right Start Best Toy Awards 2013<\/li>\n<li>Over three million Mr. Men books are sold every year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.egmont.co.uk\/\">Egmont<\/a> and don\u2019t forget <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/\">World Book Day on Thursday 6<sup>th<\/sup> March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know every school-age child in the UK and Ireland (&amp; registered nurseries\/pre-schools) will get a \u00a31 book token to swap for one of our specially-published \u00a31 books (so it\u2019s effectively a free book!) or use to get \u00a31 off any full priced book or audio books. The tokens are valid for a limited time only &#8211; 3rd March\u201330th March 2014. You can find some information about the \u00a31 books here\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/email.itlab.com\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=kcajWB56IUGUFWwiJuxTvkCBi3lk9NAIsu2KqyV9XcXLbeG_P3hBH2vYfEORDwnbXSILl5FkMsk.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.worldbookday.com%2fbooks%2f\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/books\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the month of February LittleBird will be celebrating World Book Day with fun facts, free gifts and competition giveaways. Our friends at Egmont\u00a0have given us four fabulous books to give away this week \u2013 I am Not A Loser by Barry Loser \u2013 Spellchecked by Jim Smith, Mr Tickle by Roger Hargreaves, You\u2019re a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/world-book-day\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,1,17,18],"tags":[314,8,164,141,9,315,69,43,11,12,316,13,317,318,319,142,320,47,171,321],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-families","category-inspiring-families","category-uncategorized","category-saving-money-2","category-saving-time","tag-barry-loser","tag-children","tag-competition","tag-egmont","tag-families-2","tag-free-gifts","tag-fun","tag-games","tag-inspiring-families-2","tag-kids","tag-literature","tag-littlebird","tag-mr-gum","tag-mr-men-books","tag-mr-tickle","tag-reading","tag-thomas-and-friends","tag-toys","tag-win","tag-world-book-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5794,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/5794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}