World Book Day 2026
Thursday 5th March
World Book Day feels more important than ever this year, especially as it falls within the Year of Reading. It’s a brilliant opportunity to celebrate the incredible books available and to encourage even more children to discover the joy of reading for pleasure.
That’s why we’re excited to be bringing back our Stories for Schools competition, giving five lucky schools the chance to win one of five mini school packs. And on 5th March, we’ll also be holding our annual Double Tokens Day.
Stories for Schools
Nominate your school
To celebrate World Book Day, we’re donating mini school packs to five schools across the UK and Northern Ireland. Each pack provides a brilliant new tool to support literacy, whether that’s in the classroom or as part of a listening station in your school library.
This is where you come in.
We’re inviting you to nominate your school, and the more nominations, the better. Rally together and help us see just how much your school values reading. We’d love to hear about your commitment to literacy, as well as any challenges you’re currently facing.
It’s simple to take part. Just complete the short form below, and start spreading the word!
A panel of Voxblock team members and industry peers (to be confirmed) will review the submissions and select the winners.
Deadline: 23:59 on 26th March
Who can apply: Everyone! Whether you’re a teacher, headteacher, or a parent, we’d love to hear from you.
Please take the time to read our terms & conditions, as we outline what the judges are looking for from your nominations.
Open to nominations for schools based in the UK and Northern Ireland.
Nominations open on the 5th March
What your school will receive:
1 of five mini school packs worth £410.
The packs include:
- 5x Voxblock audiobooks with bumpers
- 10x audiobooks (of schools choice)
- 1x charging bank
- 1x aux cable
- and school resources
Good Luck!
Our Shortlist
We had over 240 nominations and we have managed to whittle it down to 31, who will put forward to the next stage of judging. Five will be picked from the following list to each win a mini school pack.
Good luck to the following schools:
- Alderwood Primary School (South England)
- Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School (Midlands)
- Aviemore Primary School (Scotland)
- Chelford CofE Primary School (North England)
- Chilternway Academy (South England)
- Chirnside Primary School (Scotland)
- Cleveland Road Primary School (South England)
- Eassie Primary School (Scotland)
- Eastern Primary School (Scotland)
- Epinay Business and Enterprise School (North England)
- Fallin Primary School (Scotland)
- Foxwood Academy (Midlands)
- Hearsall Community Academy (Midlands)
- ILM Academy (Wales)
- Netley Abbey Infant School (South England)
- Penygelli Primary School (Wales)
- Priory Primary School (South England)
- Prospect Hill Junior School (Midlands)
- Quarry Bank Primary School (Midlands)
- Queenborough School (South England)
- Reinwood Infants and Juniors (North England)
- Royal School of the Blind (North England)
- Sanday (Scotland)
- Saint Patrick's Primary and Nursery (Scotland)
- Spa Primary (Northern Ireland)
- Springfield Junior School (South England)
- St Lawrence's CofE Primary School (North England)
- St Mary's CofE Junior School (South England)
- Stockbridge Primary School (Scotland)
- The Blue School (South England)
- The Parkgate Academy (Midlands)
Thank you to everyone that nominated a school.
Our judges will choose the winners in early April, with the announcement of the winners in late April.
We are thrilled to have the Scottish Book Trust partnering with us for Stories for Schools!
The Scottish Book Trust is a national charity dedicated to changing lives through reading, writing, and books. One of their key messages is simple but powerful: all reading is good reading.
They are also the organisation behind the brilliant Authors Live events, where they have interviewed some of the amazing authors featured on the Voxblock bookshelf.