World Book Day Costumes

World Book Day is on Thursday 6th March 2025.

World Book Day is an event celebrated by schools and librares in the UK and Ireland. Typically held on the first Thursday of March each year, on World Book Day, children are encouraged to dress up as their favourite character, bring their favourite book into school, have fun with reading by taking part in activities and can exchange their £1/€1.50 book token for a World Book Day book for free. 

The World Book Day charity changes lives through a love of books and reading. Their mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own and to raise awareness of the difference reading makes to children’s lives particularly those growing up in disadvantage and inequality. World Book Day also offers activities to support families to help children love reading all year round on the World Book Day website.

World Book Day is an event celebrated by schools and libraries in the UK and Ireland. Typically held on the first Thursday of March each year, on World Book Day, children are encouraged to dress up as their favourite character, bring their favourite book into school, have fun with reading by taking part in activities and can exchange their £1/€1.50 book token for a World Book Day book for free. 

The World Book Day charity changes lives through a love of books and reading. Their mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own and to raise awareness of the difference reading makes to children’s lives particularly those growing up in disadvantage and inequality. World Book Day also offers activities to support families to help children love reading all year round on the World Book Day website.

Anything you want to be! Whether you want to bring some magic to the classroom and dress as Harry Potter, keep it classic as an iconic Roald Dahl character or you love comics and want to bring your favourite superhero to life there are no rules. For inspiration, we have World Book Day ideas for kids and adults so you can find the perfect World Book Day costume easily.

World Book Day is all about having fun with books and reading and what's more fun than dressing as your favourite character? Dive into a world of pure imagination with our Willy Wonka costume, become a hero and dress up as Matilda or have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious World Book Day and dress as everyone's favourite nanny Mary Poppins.

For adults, this is the time to introduce the children in your class to your childhood favourites. Honour the unsung hero of the Harry Potter series Professor McGonagall, channel the scariest teacher of them all and transform into Miss Trunchbull or show the kids in your class you really know how to have fun with The Cat in The Hat.