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February 14 is International Book Giving Day, a day dedicated to getting new, used, and borrowed books in the hands of as many children as possible.
I’ll certainly be giving some books away and sharing others on February 14, and I hope you will too. For those books you’re giving away, you might like to put an International Book Giving Day bookplate inside them.
Last year Clara Vulliamy designed a gorgeous bookplate for International Book Giving Day:
This year Nicola L Robinson has designed another really fun bookplate you can download, print off, and stick in your books:
To download the full size bookplate from Nicola L Robinson click here.
If you are an illustrator and would like to design a bookplate for International Book Giving Day, please get in touch! We welcome bookplates written in a variety of languages. The bookplates must be 11.4 cm x 6.9 cm (or 4.5 inches x 2.7 inches) in size. We will make the bookplates available for free at International Book Giving Day’s website for people to download and print themselves.
That’s a great idea! I particularly like that it is Feb 14th as that used to be a v hard day for me before I met my h. I like the idea of everyone giving each other a book, whether or not they fancy each other!!
I am glad you shared Clara Vulliamy’s bookplate again! That was wonderful of her to create it for International Book Giving Day last year. And, I love Nicola Robinson’s bookplate as well! -Amy
Thank you so much for posting these, Zoe. I wanted to give book in honor of Daniel Barden, my cousin’s son who died in Newtown, because he loved reading so much and I am not a very good artist.