I’ve written before about how big a fan I am of World Book Day, but also how uninterested I am in the whole competitive parenting side of it. I like my costumes to be simple, and all about the book, not about how amazing *ahem* I am with sewing machine. From previous years we have had great fun going though ideas of stories Miss N has read, and what she would like to dress as.
Here is Miss N from two years ago :
She was Lucy Pevensie from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, it was such an easy but effective costume. We bought a coat, that we could use again, we already had a beret. We only needed to make the evacuee tag and gas mask box.
Last year, my little girl grew up, and as a tween wanted a cool costume, that had a fashionable feel to it. We went for this Hunger Games outfit, as the book was, and is still a favourite. The only thing we bought was a badge for a few pounds, the rest we already had.
This year both of my girls will be joining in, I’ve only got a photograph of Miss A for now as Dorothy from The Wizard of OZ :
I think Bennett the dog makes a great Toto. The only problem is, Miss A want to bring him to school with her too!
I love dressing up, and I’m a little sad that as adults we don’t join in with World Book Day by wearing a book depicting outfit. Actually today Thomas Cook have released a new app for World Book Day. The app requires you to insert your holiday destination and favourite book genre and then suggests the perfect book for your holiday. Well I thought it would be fun to think about my next holiday, the book I would read there, and perhaps the character I could dress up as. I’ve been desperate to visit New York for such a long time, you never know this year may be the year. So how about Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, set in the 1920’s all about the wife of F Scott Fitzgerald of The Great Gatsby fame. Oh I would love to dress up in a flapper dress, with a string of pearls representing the glamorous and constant partying of the couple in New York. Tall Dad would be a make a very dapper F Scott I think!
Well, I’m off now to finish off Miss N’s outfit, once I take a photograph, I will update this post with it tomorrow.
Update : Here is Miss N’s outfit :
Love these ideas, especially Dorothy and the Hunger Games outfits are really cool x
I think they are my favourites too! Thanks Carolin x
I love that these are so simple and yet affective! I saw many a parent panicking over WBD and it really doesn’t have to be so competitive and costly!
Completely agree!!
These outfits are AMAZING, and I absolutely love the photo of Miss A and Bennett and Dorothy and Toto. I can’t believe how much Miss N has grown up since her Lucy/The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe photo – that only seems like yesterday.
Think the GLAM squad should have a trip to New York! xx
Can you believe it M….Miss A won!!! There is an oscar style ceremony at school and they announced her outfit as the winner for foundation class 🙂
Me too, N has grown up so much, secondary school in September, she want to try contact lenses over summer. SO grown up!
Yay, great news! And well deserved xx
I’m totally with you on the non-competitive thing when it comes to world book day. I see so many amazing outfits i end up thinking, i can’t come up with anything near as amazing and it puts us off trying. This year we let the kids initiate and J simply wanted to be a pirate based on ‘magic marks the spot’ so he used a pirate outfit we already had and we made a simple hat. Your ideas are fabulous! x
Well done Miss A, and LOVING Miss N in her outfit xx
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