Give a book on World Book Day

World Book Day takes place on 3 March 2011. To celebrate, give a book to someone you love, someone you admire or someone who really should read more! For an adult, choose a book you love or a book that makes you laugh outloud. For a child, find a book they will fall in love with.

My book giving list…
For dad – The Poems of Norman MacCaig. I’ll read them with him.
For mum – Very difficult. Perhaps Wuthering Heights read aloud. Perhaps a book of short stories that will bring moments of calm.
For sister – Under Fishbone Clouds by Sam Meekings – I love this book. Sam’s use of language is so beautiful. He portrays the changes in China over the last seventy years with clarity through a love story.
For husband – Just My Type by Simon Garfield
For a friend in need of cheer – it has to be one of Alexander McCall Smith’s Scotland Street books – The Importance of Being Seven.
For sons – I have a long list. One I’d like to give to my oldest is the Selected Works of WH Auden. Alexander McCall Smith introduced me to Auden’s work and they are a wonderful source of inspiration. Both are now in their late teens. In the past it would have been Michael Mopurgo. Now I have to read these myself. For my youngest (15) probably a graphic novel.

World Book Night is two days later on 5 March 2011, so two chances to give books. Buy them at an independent bookshop if you can.