World Book Day 2015

To celebrate World Book Day, children in the UK and Ireland will be given a £1 (€1.50 in Ireland) book token in their nurseries and schools which they can use to claim their World Book Day title in bookshops across the country . Alternatively they can use the voucher against the full cost of another book – perhaps from the 50 books to read before you are 16 list from Sainsbury's.
 
The 2015 World Book Day titles are:
 
Age 2+:
The Dinosaur That Pooped A Lot! by Tom Fletcher & Dougie Poynter, illustrated by Garry Parsons (Random House Children’s Books)
Elmer’s Parade by David McKee (Andersen Press)
 
Age 5-7:
A Pirate’s Guide to Landlubbing by Jonny Duddle (Templar)
Magic Animal Friends: Lucy Longwhiskers Finds a Friend by Daisy Meadows (Orchard Books)
 
Age 7-9:   
The Diary of Dennis the Menace: World Book Menace Day by Steven Butler (Puffin)
Goth Girl and the Pirate Queen by Chris Riddell (Macmillan Children’s Books)
 
Age 9+:
Best Mates by Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Dork Diaries: How to be a Dork! by Rachel Renée Russell (Simon & Schuster )
 
YA:
Killing the Dead by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion Children’s Books)
Geek Girl: Geek Drama by Holly Smale (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
 
Ireland only:
The Fairytale Trap by Erika McGann (O’Brien)

Sainsbury's organised the study of 2,000 reading enthusiasts to determine the ultimate list of the top 50 books that should be on every child’s reading list by age 16, encouraging bedtime reading for British families.

1. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
2. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
4. Winnie The Pooh – A.A.Milne
5. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
6. James and The Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
7. The BFG – Roald Dahl
8. A Bear Called Paddington – Michael Bond
9. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
11. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – J.K. Rowling
12. Matilda – Roald Dahl
13. The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
14. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
15. Five on a Treasure Island – Enid Blyton
16. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
17. The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
18. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
19. Charlotte's Web – EB White
20. The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
21. Watership Down – Richard Adams
22. The Hobbit  – J.R.Tolken
23. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
24. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
25. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ¾ – Sue Townsend
26. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
27. The Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss
28. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson-Burnett
29. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
30. The Twits – Roald Dahl
31. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
32. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
33. Anne of Green Gables – L.M.Montgomery
34. The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
35. Green Eggs and Ham – Dr Seuss
36. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
37. Bambi – Felix Selten
38. Tom's Midnight Garden – Phillipa Pearce
39. Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
40. Funny Bones – Janet and Allan Ahlberg
41. Where The Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
42. Carrie's War – Nina Bawden
43. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
44. The Magician's Nephew – C.S. Lewis
45. The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
46. The Story of Doctor Dolittle – Hugh Lofting
47. The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
48. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
49. Curious George – H.A.Ray
50. Each Peach Pear Plum – Janet and Allan Ahlberg