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Dr Seuss, Winnie the Pooh and a prequel to The Great Hamster Massacre are among the stories in the World Book Day 2011 £1 flipbooks.
Each of the flipbooks will be age-ranged and will contain stories by two different authors with brand new work from Betty G Birney, Philip Reeve and Ali Sparkes, among others. Katie Davies’ story will be a prequel to her award-winning The Great Hamster Massacre.
An additional flipbook for the Irish market will also be available, containing one story in English and the other in Irish. For pre-school children there will be a picture book featuring extracts and rhymes from the Dr Seuss canon, including pieces from The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Oh, The Places You’ll Go.
As part of the promotion, children will be able to watch short films of World Book Day authors reading extracts from the £1 books. On the “Story Time Online” portal, sponsored by National Book Tokens, actors Bernard Cribbins, Kris Marshall, Devon Anderson and Ramona Marquez will join the authors in reading aloud.
More than 13 million schoolchildren are set to receive a World Book Day £1 book token - redeemable against the flip books or as part-payment towards any book or audio book costing £2.99 or more. The £1 World Book Day tokens will be redeemable from February 28 to March 27 at more than 3,000 participating bookshops and book retailers in the UK and Republic of Ireland. World Book Day 2011 will take place on 3rd March.
The flipbooks in full and their readers on the Story Time Online site:
Pre-school:
Dr Seuss on the Loose! (HarperCollins), read by Devon Anderson
5+
Gargoylz Make Some Noise, by Burchett & Vogler (Random House Children’s Books), read by authors Burchett & Vogler
S.W.I.T.C.H. Bug Battle, by Ali Sparkes (Oxford University Press), read by author Ali Sparkes
Humphrey’s Tiny Tales: My Treasure Hunt Trouble, by Betty Birney (Faber & Faber), read by Ramona Marquez
Tales from Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne (Egmont), read by Bernard Cribbins
7+
The Great Pet-Shop Panic, by Katie Davies (Simon & Schuster), read by Katie Davies
Spy Dog’s Got Talent, by Andrew Cope (Puffin), read by Andrew Cope
9+
Do Bugs Have Bottoms?, by Glenn Murphy (Macmillan Children’s Books), read by Mel Giedroyc
Evilution: The Troof – A Jiggy McCue Story, by Michael Lawrence (Orchard Press), read by Kris Marshall
11+
Traction City, by Philip Reeve (Scholastic Children’s Books), read by Philip Reeve
The Teacher’s Tales of Terror, by Chris Priestley (Bloomsbury), read by Chris Priestley