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The ultimate handbook for raising wilder, happier, muddier, more resilient kids - whatever the weather and wherever you live. Lily, 7 years old, and Alfie, 4 years old, dresses as Jim Lad from the Pirate Next Door and Mary Poppins on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Sarah Mayhew (Image: Sarah Mayhew)

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Staff and students and Beccles Free School celebrate World Book Day 2019. Photo: Beccles Free School (Image: Beccles Free School) Stanley as Peter Pan and Archie as Mario on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Jacqui Brown (Image: Jacqui Brown) Millie and Olivia Seely, aged 9 and 7, as Gangtsa Granny and Mary Poppins. Photo: Louise Seely (Image: Louise Seely) Millie Barnes, aged 5, dressed as Alice Wonderland ready for World Book Day 2019 at Magdalen Gates School. Photo: Samantha Barnes (Image: Samantha Barnes)These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.

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Matilda Crush-Davison as Hilda on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Joseph Davison (Image: Joseph Davison) Ollie Davis, aged 7, and Charlie Read-Cook, aged 5, with 8 month old baby sister Isla Warmer on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Charlotte Cook (Image: Charlotte Cook) Michael as Gangster Granny and Daisy as Red Riding Hood on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Daisy Soall (Image: Daisy Soall) Lingwood Primary School celebrate World Book Day 2019. Photo: Lingwood Primary School (Image: Lingwood Primary School)Next, Steve joined the Natural History Unit’s fledgling expedition team, making the first ascent of a jungle peak and dropping into a vast sinkhole in the Mulu mountains in ‘Expedition Borneo’. In ‘Lost Land of the Jaguar’he made the first ascent of Mount Upuigma in Venezuela, slept on the vertical cliff face and found unknown species of animals on the summit. He also abseiled to the bottom of the Kaiteur Falls in Guyana to the soaked wonderland below.

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Steve is one of the busiest presenters on television, mainly working for the BBC’s Natural History Unit. He has had his own season of programmes on Eden television channel alongside legends David Attenborough and Bruce Parry. Before that, he was ‘Adventurer in Residence’ at the National Geographic Channel.

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Oscar A Watson, aged 2 and a half, as his favourite character The Gruffalo. Photo: Victoria Watson (Image: Victoria Watson)

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From Postman Pat to Gangster Granny, here are some of the wonderful photos of creative costumes this World Book Day. In 2003, Steve moved to the BBC’s Natural History Unit, where he took his place on the long running children’s wildlife programme ‘The Really Wild Show’. The following three years were awash with wildlife highlights; sharing a beach with 75,000 nesting olive ridley turtles, having a baby mountain gorilla take him by the hand and having a red-eyed tree frog leap into his face. Staff and children at Old Catton Junior School celebrate World Book Day 2019. Photo: Old Catton Junior School (Image: Old Catton Junior School) Children at Norwich Primary Academy dress up for World Book Day 2019. Photo: Norwich Primary Academy (Image: Norwich Primary Academy)He wouldn’t try filming “on the fly” like this in the Arctic: “If you don’t find the polar bear or the narwhal you’re stuffed. But if you go to a rainforest and don’t find the harpy eagle, you know you’ll find the poison dart frog.”