13 easy World Book Day costume ideas

World Book Day 2025 selection

This rhyming search-and-find story has been specially created for World Book Day 2025. Join in the fun with the animals of Acorn Wood – have a picnic with Hen, visit Mole’s cosy house and take a trip to Acorn Fair with Dormouse and her friends, with a new rhyming story by Julia Donaldson and lots of things to spot on every page.

In a special adventure especially for World Book Day 2024, a mysterious figure has robbed the bank – but it’s not just the money that’s gone missing, the whole building has disappeared! – and it’s up to secret agents Mango and Brash to go undercover and solve the mystery. Armed with super hi-tech spy technology, crack the case with Mango and Brash in InvestiGators: High-Rise Hijinks, a laugh-out-loud adventure. 

Tunde has awesome friends, embarrassing parents and loves football – sounds normal, right? Except Tunde is also a secret superhero with wings! But when a new kid starts at school and is better than him at everything, not even Tunde’s friends seem on his side. And to make matters worse there’s also an evil robot about, threatening to destroy the town. Find out whether the Boy With Wings can save the day before it’s too late!

Some legends are born, some are drawn . . . This second title in the funny, exciting adventure series for boys and girls of 8 to 12 fizzes with magic, danger, friendship and art. Famous works of art are disappearing from all over the world, and Peanut Jones and her friends suspect it might have something to do with the magical world of Chroma and the wicked Mr White's plot to wipe out colour, art and creativity. It's time to head back to the Illustrated City and help the resistance fight back.

1. Wear all black clothes.
2. Make some wings using black and red card.
3. For extra effect, you could use face paints to finish this costume off.

Peter is just wearing his normal clothes, but to make it special you could take in a toy dog or with a piece of wire and a dog lead, make a pretend dog. Don’t forget an armful of your favourite books!

This is simple if you have the right dress – a simple white or blue outfit teamed with a headband would work perfectly.

Especially great if you love your greens! Wear a pair of jeans and white t-shirt and then simply use face paint to colour yourself green. You could complete the costume by carrying some broccoli!

Find yourself a Moone Boy hat and then you can choose your favourite weekend outfit to wear. There are lots of activities available which might add some magic to your costume on the Moone Boy website.

Simply wear your black clothes and add a purple feather to your hair. A toy mouse you can hold in your hand would complete this costume.

There are so many floors in Andy and Terry’s Treehouse that you can make loads of exciting costumes! Wear your favourite outfit, and then bring along something from your favourite level of their Treehouse.

Props could include:

• Something from the secret underground laboratory.
• A man-eating shark.
• Marshmallows from the marshmallow machine.
• A baby dinosaur from the baby dinosaur petting zoo.