{"id":24197,"date":"2020-03-05T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24197"},"modified":"2020-03-05T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:23:58","slug":"roundup-of-world-book-day-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24197","title":{"rendered":"Roundup of World Book Day in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030501.jpg\" alt=\"World Book Day\" \/><br \/>\nAt Mostly Books, in Stert Street, there was a book reading, and children had dressed up for the event.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030502.jpg\" alt=\"World Book Day\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Bookstore, in Bury Street, children from different years at Thameside School have been coming every day of the week to exchange their World Book Day vouchers, either: for a book from the special display, or they could use it towards another book.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030504.jpg\" alt=\"World Book Day\" \/><br \/>\nOne book in the shop was created with the help of children from Thameside School, Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Children worked with artist Korky Paul to make bug pictures for the start and end leafs of his new book &#8216;Winnie the Witch \u2013 Bug Safari&#8217;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030505.jpg\" alt=\"World Book Day\" \/><br \/>\nPictures by 28 children are featured in the book.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030503.jpg\" alt=\"World Book Day\" \/><br \/>\nNext door, W H Smith had 3 for 2 on lots of children&#8217;s books for World Book Day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030506.jpg\" alt=\"World Book Day\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Library are currently running a reader&#8217;s challenge, called <i>Bloomin&#8217; Good Books<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Readers of any age are invited to fill in and return a postcard, about a favourite book, to be entered for the prize draw. You can write an account of the book and why you like it. That might inspire somebody else to read that book and reading will grow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030507.jpg\" alt=\"World Book Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere are six (soon to be seven) charity shops in the town centre that sell second hand books. <\/p>\n<p>The British Heart Foundation had a window display for World Book Day. On the top shelf is fiction, next down is children&#8217;s books, next down is adult fiction, and bottom is media. The display changes as people often ask to buy what is in the window.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030508.jpg\" alt=\"World Book Day\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon County Museum also sell books &#8211; all of them about Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Poundland also sells books, as does Waitrose. <\/p>\n<p>So by my reckoning there are twelve shops that sell books in Abingdon Town Centre this World Book Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Mostly Books, in Stert Street, there was a book reading, and children had dressed up for the event. At the Bookstore, in Bury Street, children from different years at Thameside School have been coming every day of the week to exchange their World Book Day vouchers, either: for a book from the special display, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}