Wholesale World Book Day Costumes
World Book Day is an important date in the calendar for the fancy dress industry, so make sure you’re ready this year with our extensive range of wholesale costumes and accessories. Find popular fancy dress licenses, such as Harry Potter and Roald Dahl to classics like pirates and fairytale characters that are guaranteed to keep your customers happy.
World Book Day is an important date in the calendar for the fancy dress industry, so make sure you’re ready this year with our extensive range of wholesale costumes and accessories. Find popular fancy dress licenses, such as Harry Potter and Roald Dahl to classics like pirates and fairytale characters that are guaranteed to keep your customers happy.
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World Book Day is on Thursday 7th March 2024.
World Book Day is a charity event celebrated by schools and librares in the UK and Ireland. Typically held on the first Thursday of March each year, World Book Day was created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995 to celebrate books and reading. On World Book Day children are encouraged to dress up as their favourite character or bring their favourite book into school, all children also receive a voucher to spend on books.
Anything you want to be! Whether you want to bring some magic to the classroom and dress as Harry Potter, keep it classic as an iconic Roald Dahl character or you love comics and want to bring your favourite superhero to life there are no rules. For inspiration, we have World Book Day ideas for kids and adults so you can find the perfect World Book Day costume easily.
World Book Day is all about fun for kids and what's more fun than dressing as your favourite character? Dive into a world of pure imagination with our Willy Wonka costume, become a hero and dress up as Matilda or have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious World Book Day and dress as everyone's favourite nanny Mary Poppins.
For adults, this is the time to introduce the children in your class to your childhood favourites. Honour the unsung hero of the Harry Potter series Professor McGonagall, channel the scariest teacher of them all and transform into Miss Trunchbull or show the kids in your class you really know how to have fun with The Cat in The Hat.
Book Day Costumes
Whether your kids love taking a trip to Wonderland down the rabbit hole, love the tales of the boy who lived or want to visit a world of pure imagination our collection of World Book Day costumes for kids and adults to help bring all your favourite characters to life.
Take a trip to Wonderland with our collection of Alice in Wonderland costumes. Add some life to Lewis Carroll's classic novel with our Alice, Mad Hatter, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee and Queen of Hearts fancy dress. We even have a super easy Queen of Hearts make up tutorial for you to truly get into character.
Transform your school into Hogwarts for the day with our magical Harry Potter fancy dress ideas. Whether you're a Gryffindor or a Slytherin we have a costume for everyone - even for he who shall not be named! Our Harry Potter costume comes with Harry's iconic glasses and Gryffindor robe and the Hermione costume is a must-have for every magical girl out there.
Our full collection of World Book Day costumes features iconic characters from Willy Wonka to Goldilocks. We also have a collection of World Book Day materials including banners, bunting and balloons.
Whether your kids love taking a trip to Wonderland down the rabbit hole, love the tales of the boy who lived or want to visit a world of pure imagination our collection of World Book Day costumes for kids and adults to help bring all your favourite characters to life.
Take a trip to Wonderland with our collection of Alice in Wonderland costumes. Add some life to Lewis Carroll's classic novel with our Alice, Mad Hatter, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee and Queen of Hearts fancy dress. We even have a super easy Queen of Hearts make up tutorial for you to truly get into character.
Transform your school into Hogwarts for the day with our magical Harry Potter fancy dress ideas. Whether you're a Gryffindor or a Slytherin we have a costume for everyone - even for he who shall not be named! Our Harry Potter costume comes with Harry's iconic glasses and Gryffindor robe and the Hermione costume is a must-have for every magical girl out there.
Our full collection of World Book Day costumes features iconic characters from Willy Wonka to Goldilocks. We also have a collection of World Book Day materials including banners, bunting and balloons.