World Book Day 2023: The best pictures as Peterborough children dress-up as their favourite book characters

Today (March 2) is World Book Day – where children get the chance to go to school dressed-up as characters from their favourite books.

Once again, school children across Peterborough – with help from creative parents – didn’t disappoint, with hundreds of pictures of children dressed-up for the day being submitted to us by our readers.

World Book Day is a charity event held on the first Thursday of March every year. It has been celebrated in the UK and Ireland since 1998.

On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK is given a voucher to be spent on books – encouraging children to get into reading.

The Peterborough Telegraph has put together a collection of some of the best World Book Day images taken in schools by our photographer and submitted to us by you: