{"id":357,"date":"2014-02-11T17:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:56:53","slug":"world-book-day-with-penguin-puffin-and-ladybird-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/world-book-day-with-penguin-puffin-and-ladybird-books\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day with Penguin, Puffin and Ladybird Books!"},"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.penguin.co.uk\/\">Penguin<\/a>,\u00a0 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.puffin.co.uk\/\">Puffin<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ladybird.co.uk\/\">Ladybird\u00a0<\/a>have given us three fabulous books to give away this week \u2013 Pirate Pete&#8217;s Potty and Princess Polly&#8217;s Potty, How I Now Live by Meg Rosoff and Wimpy Kid Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney and have compiled a wonderful selection of fun facts and Did You Know..? about the books, their characters and their authors.<\/p>\n<p>Share, enjoy and have fun!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PP_MyBigGirlBedSMALL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-360\" alt=\"PP_MyBigGirlBedSMALL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PP_MyBigGirlBedSMALL.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PP_MyBigGirlBedSMALL.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PP_MyBigGirlBedSMALL-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PP_MyBigBoyBed_C_70843_Front1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-364\" alt=\"PP_MyBigBoyBed_C_70843_Front[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PP_MyBigBoyBed_C_70843_Front1.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PP_MyBigBoyBed_C_70843_Front1.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PP_MyBigBoyBed_C_70843_Front1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Pirate Pete\u2019s Potty and Princess Polly\u2019s Potty<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best-selling Pirate Pete and Princess Polly\u2019s Potty books have sold over 200,000 copies combined so far!<\/li>\n<li>Chris Evans once gave Pirate Pete\u2019s Potty a rave review on his BBC Radio 2 show, giving it a big thumbs up for helping \u00a0potty train his son.<\/li>\n<li>For further helpful hints and tips on potty training your child visit <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ladybird.com\/potty\" target=\"_blank\">www.ladybird.com\/potty<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9780141318011_HowILiveNow_SMALL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-358\" alt=\"9780141318011_HowILiveNow_SMALL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9780141318011_HowILiveNow_SMALL.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9780141318011_HowILiveNow_SMALL.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9780141318011_HowILiveNow_SMALL-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>How I Live Now\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How I Live Now was Meg Rosoff\u2019s debut novel, first published in 2004<\/li>\n<li>In 2013, it was made into a film starring Saoirse Ronan and directed by Kevin MacDonald<\/li>\n<li>Meg hasn\u2019t reread How I Live Now since it came out<\/li>\n<li>Meg won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2004 for her second novel Just in Case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9780141345741_WK_ThirdWheelSMALL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-362\" alt=\"9780141345741_WK_ThirdWheelSMALL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9780141345741_WK_ThirdWheelSMALL.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9780141345741_WK_ThirdWheelSMALL.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9780141345741_WK_ThirdWheelSMALL-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Third Wheel<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diary of a Wimpy Kid was originally written for adults (not kids)!<\/li>\n<li>There have been 3 blockbusting Diary of a Wimpy Kid films<\/li>\n<li>Wimpy Kid books have been sold in 44 countries in 42 languages!<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Kinney has been named one of <i>Time<\/i> magazine\u2019s most influential people in the world.<\/li>\n<li>In 2013 Blue Peter viewers voted <i>Diary of a Wimpy Kid <\/i>as book of the decade, beating Harry Potter!<\/li>\n<li>Play &#8216;Wimp Wars&#8217; and laugh out loud online at\u00a0\u00a0<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.wimpykidclub.co.uk\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks again to <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/\">Penguin<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.puffin.co.uk\/\">Puffin<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ladybird.co.uk\/\">Ladybird<\/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>Fancy winning all four of these fabulous books? Pop over to our <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/littlebirddeals\">Twitter page<\/a>\u00a0and retweet our Competition tweet to enter!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LadyBird2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-369\" alt=\"LadyBird2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LadyBird2.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LadyBird2.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LadyBird2-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/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 \u2013 3rd March\u201330th March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>You can find some information about the \u00a31 books here\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/books\/<\/a><\/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 Penguin,\u00a0 Puffin and Ladybird\u00a0have given us three fabulous books to give away this week \u2013 Pirate Pete&#8217;s Potty and Princess Polly&#8217;s Potty, How I Now Live by Meg Rosoff and Wimpy Kid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/world-book-day-with-penguin-puffin-and-ladybird-books\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[64,164,9,315,69,43,11,12,325,316,13,317,318,319,326,327,142,320,47,328,171,321],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-families","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-competition","tag-families-2","tag-free-gifts","tag-fun","tag-games","tag-inspiring-families-2","tag-kids","tag-ladybird-books","tag-literature","tag-littlebird","tag-mr-gum","tag-mr-men-books","tag-mr-tickle","tag-penguin-books","tag-puffin-books","tag-reading","tag-thomas-and-friends","tag-toys","tag-twitter","tag-win","tag-world-book-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5813,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/5813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}