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World Book Day 2026: Your amazing costumes

A boy dressed as an orange dinosaur, a girl dressed as Lottie Brooks from the book series by Katie Kirby, a girl dressed half as Elphaba and half as Glinda from Wicked, and a boy dressed as a pug holding a copy of 'Pugs of the Frozen North'.UGC

We love seeing pictures of your costumes

It's World Book Day and lots of you are celebrating by dressing up as characters from your favourite books.

You've been sending us photos of your character creations from authors like Julia Donaldson and JK Rowling.

From Frida Kahlo to The Hungry Caterpillar, your imagination has blown us away.

Take a look at the gallery below - you might even spot an idea for next year's costume.

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A girl in a wardrobe costume.UGC

Look at the amazing details included in Siena's costume, inspired by The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Four images of children dressed in costumes from Julia Donaldson books.UGC

Characters from Julia Donaldson books seem to have been popular this year: Eira as Janet from The Smeds and the Smoos, Monty and Florence as Harry O'Hay and Betty O'Barley from The Scarecrows' Wedding, Sophia as Superworm and Niall as The Gruffalo

A boy wearing a red cape with eight octopus tentacles and a red paper mache head with round eyes and a big smile. Underneath the cape, the boy is wearing a navy blue tunic that's been made to look like the sea, covered in fish, jellyfish and starfish.UGC

Theo's creative costume is the Tickly Octopus from the book by Ruth Galloway. He could read eight books at once with all of those tentacles.

A child wearing a blue top, blue trousers and a blue headpiece which has the face of a monster on it. The monster has big eyes and two big teeth. The girl is standing in front of a green, blue and purple sparkly decoration on the door.UCG

We hope you aren't feeling 'blue', Inaara. This costume is inspired by a book called The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas

Children in Victorian costumes.UGC

Nina and Alix have travelled back in time with their costumes - they're dressed up as Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A boy wearing a red cube shaped costume with a smiley face on it and a green hat. He's wearing red face paint, red trousers and red shoes. He's carrying a pretend weight that says 1,000 kilograms on it in one hand, and the Mr Strong book in the other.UGC

Only Mr Strong could lift weights as heavy as that - a great costume by Noah for World Book Day

A girl smiling as she wears a blue morph suit with a beige vest and navy shorts over the top. Her hair is hidden by the morph suit and she's wearing blue face paint and a black moustache that's been made out of pipe cleaners. She has padding in the costume to make her tummy stick out and she's holding a copy of the book Coraline.UGC

What an amazing moustache! Skye has dressed up as Mr Bobinsky from Coraline

A boy smiling as he wears a blue shirt, a grey jacket, beige trousers and brown shoes. He's wearing a camera and is holding a toy bird, with a toy panda tucked into his jacket pocket.UGC

Leo is using props including a camera and a panda as part of his David Attenborough costume

A boy wearing a yellow hoodie and black trousers stood in a box made out of see-through plastic with foil edges. He's holding a copy of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl inside the box.UGC

Ayaan's costume really lift-ed our spirits - he's dressed up as the elevator from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

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