World Book Day with Team Bookends

Today is a very special day for any fellow bookworm out there – it’s World Book Day. It might bring back memories of heading to school dressed as Harry Potter or something your Mum has found in the cupboard and passed off as ‘A witch’ but we thought we’d share the books that inspired Team Bookends to get reading!

Aimee

The obligatory answer for someone of my age is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, which definitely inspired me to read, but truth be told I’ve always been a voracious reader. Ever since the days of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Each Peach Pear Plum, I’ve found that I’m at my happiest with a book in my hands and an imagined scene in my head. I associate reading books with certain people; my dad reading me Stig of the Dump at bedtime, my Y6 teacher introducing me to South Africa through Beverley Naidoo’s No Turning Back, my friends and I giggling over Jacqueline Wilson’s Girls in Love series. There’s no one book that I can claim to be the inspiration – I just love all books!

Hannah

For lack of originality, the book that inspired by love of reading has to be Harry Potter – I dressed as Hermione at every available opportunity as a kid and spent every single holiday reading and re-reading the series. I also couldn’t get enough of books like The Worst Witch, Mildred Hubble was so relatable – seems like my inner child has a thing for witchcraft…

Helena

I don’t think I can quite put my finger on THE book that made me love reading but I know that from the age of 6 I was boasting about having read all of The Magic Key books and being on ‘libarary’ books already – which meant I could read whatever took my fancy. However I think Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield was my all time favourite, I loved each of the sisters and was desperate to get on the stage like Pauline.

Alice

I was always a reader, but I think the first book that truly transported me has to be Watership Down. Richard Adams created such a vivid world of rabbit society, behaviour and even mythology that was so compelling and it made you care about the characters even more.