Penguin Random House | London, 11/09/2018

Getting Ready for ‘World Book Day’ 2019 in the UK

Penguin Random House UK and DK provide four of the 13 titles in the “World Book Day” 2019 list, which will be given or sold for just £1 to children and young people in the UK. The titles are “Percy Jackson And The Singer Of Apollo”, “Diary Of Greg Heffley’s Best Friend”, “Nought Forever”, and “Lego Minifigure Mayhem”.

“World Book Day” will be celebrated in the UK on March 7, 2019, and children of all ages can look forward to many new books. To celebrate the day, young readers can choose books from a list of 13 titles – and will receive them for just £1 or free with a “World Book Day” gift certificate.

Penguin Random House UK and DK provide four of the titles in the list for next year’s “World Book Day”. They are the Puffin books “Percy Jackson And The Singer Of Apollo” by Rick Riordan, “Diary of Greg Heffley’s Best Friend” by Jeff Kinney, “Nought Forever” by Malorie Blackman, and DK’s “Lego Minifigure Mayhem”.

A book for Lego fans of all ages

For DK, it is the second year running to have a “World Book Day” title in the UK: “It is fantastic to be able to offer a fun non-fiction book as part of the curated list for ‘World Book Day’, and we are delighted to build on the success of ‘Marvel Avengers: The Greatest Heroes’, our first-ever ‘World Book Day title’, which was published in March,” Simon Beecroft, Publishing Director of Licensing at DK, wrote in an email to employees in the UK. “Lego Minifigure Mayhem” will be published in February 2019 and is full of jokes, challenges and facts about the world of the small, colorful bricks. 

Stories for young people

The other Penguin Random House UK titles included in the “World Book Day” list will also be published next year. In “Percy Jackson And The Singer Of Apollo”, a new title in Rick Riordan’s successful fantasy series, Percy Jackson is celebrating a friend’s birthday when the god Apollo turns up. He’s due to perform on Mount Olympus but one of his four singers is missing. So Percy sets off to bring her back and finds her in New York…

Fans of Jeff Kinney’s popular series experience the life of teenager Greg Heffley from the perspective of his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, in “Diary of Greg Heffley’s Best Friend”. Rowley, however, turns out to be a poor choice for the job of a biographer, and his “biography” is a rambling comical mess…

Malorie Blackman’s novel “Nought Forever” continues the story of her “Nought & Crosses” series and tells the story of Dan, who is on the run, hiding from a ruthless nought gang who want him dead, and of Eva, who just wants to be left alone to mourn her daughter. When she and Dan cross paths, she’s forced to make a momentous decision.