The event invites guests to dress up in literary-themed costumes, inspired by their favorite books, poems, authors and fictional characters. “It's an absolute blast,” Tim Gunn, former host of ...

Students moved among classrooms where teachers read stories while dressed as characters from those books. In the cafeteria was pizza and a selection of books the kids could take home with them.

The forgetful father-of-two was unprepared to send his children off to school this World Book Day dressed as literary character costume so he reached for the Argos catalogue for inspiration.