Nusrat Ghani, MP for Wealden, is supporting World Book Day today (Thursday 2nd March 2023).
Each year, World Book Day creates bespoke £1 books for children and young adults across the UK and Ireland, to promote the power of imagination and the importance of reading. Through World Book Day, every child in Wealden will be given a £1 book token, which they can take to a bookshop or supermarket to get their free World Book Day book.
World Book Day has been changing children’s lives by encouraging a love of books and reading for over 25 years. Reading for pleasure makes an enormous impact on a child’s future – whether that’s their educational success, well-being or mental health. World Book Day wants to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with the life-long habit of reading for pleasure that will improve their life chances.
Nusrat Ghani said: “It is important that every child in Wealden has the opportunity to have a book of their own that they have chosen for themselves, and I am pleased that the this campaign continues to support this aim. But World Book Day goes beyond the gift of a book. It also helps to instil a love of reading in children and promotes the importance of sharing stories with children and young people across the world. It is a great privilege to represent the home of one of the most iconic and internationally loved characters - Winnie-the-Pooh in Parliament, and I hope that many Wealden readers will take World Book Day as an opportunity to revisit this timeless story.”
