{"id":5311,"date":"2026-05-22T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:45:00","slug":"world-book-day-and-the-big-book-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/2026\/05\/22\/world-book-day-and-the-big-book-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day  and The BIG book Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Book Day &#8211; Thursday March 7th<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5291 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/a5070262-d0ae-4c6e-97d2-c75e802b4205-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/a5070262-d0ae-4c6e-97d2-c75e802b4205-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/a5070262-d0ae-4c6e-97d2-c75e802b4205.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On World Book Day we attended Brigh Beginnings Children&#8217;s Centre. Children were able to choose a book to take home thanks to all the donations of books we had collected.\u00a0 Cathy and Shirley also read stories to the pre-school group and took part in the Library&#8217;s STOP DROP and READ which was part of the Year of Reading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5288\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/996de12f-ddc7-4f24-a4c8-40c44d23c3d5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/996de12f-ddc7-4f24-a4c8-40c44d23c3d5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/996de12f-ddc7-4f24-a4c8-40c44d23c3d5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5287\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/0b99a872-53d4-4ed0-adf0-fcb4992c51af-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/0b99a872-53d4-4ed0-adf0-fcb4992c51af-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/0b99a872-53d4-4ed0-adf0-fcb4992c51af.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5285\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/823e6665-5802-4678-95c4-ead0e5c2a8aa-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/823e6665-5802-4678-95c4-ead0e5c2a8aa-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2026\/05\/823e6665-5802-4678-95c4-ead0e5c2a8aa.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the Saturday following World Book Day we had an amazing BIG BOOK GIVEAWAY at the St Peter Port Constables Office in Lefebre Street.<\/p>\n<p>We had collected a considerable amount of books over the past two years, and the large table enabled books to be displayed easily. About 2000 books were taken home by families who came to visit.<\/p>\n<p>If you are reading this and you have books to donate to us please contact us by email. guernseysig@gmail.com Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Book Day &#8211; Thursday March 7th On World Book Day we attended Brigh Beginnings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World Book Day and The BIG book Giveaway | News | Blog | Events | SI Guernsey<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Guernsey : Blog &amp; News : World Book Day and The BIG book Giveaway : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Guernsey . 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