Celebrate World Book Day with MATILDA and Friends

On 28 February at 11am, the Cambridge Theatre London, home of Matilda The Musical, will host World Book Day Live with Matilda and friends - a special livestreamed event to celebrate World Book Day’s 25th birthday.

Long-term partners Roald Dahl Story Company, Royal Shakespeare Company and Puffin are working together to ensure children everywhere can join in the fun. Classrooms and homes across the UK will be able to access the livestream from 11am via WorldBookDay.com.

World Book Day Live with Matilda and friends will be hosted by rapper MC Grammar and showcase authors and illustrators supporting World Book Day including two Children’s Laureates, Cressida Cowell and Chris Riddell, Greg James, Chris Smith, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Humza Arshad, Allen Fatimaharan, Hannah Lee, and two new talents from World Book Day’s #PassThePen initiative with BookTrust Nizrana Farook and Maisie Chan. The event will also feature live drawing throughout by Chris Riddell.

A special performance from the RSC’s Matilda The Musical will kick off the World Book Day birthday celebrations. For over 10 years, Olivier award-winning Matilda The Musical has celebrated the joy of reading through Roald Dahl’s book-loving heroine. Written by Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and developed and directed by Matthew Warchus, the theatre production is designed by Rob Howell and is an anarchic tribute to the magic of stories.

World Book Day Live with Matilda and friends will also feature an extract from Roald Dahl’s book Matilda read by a member of the cast of Matilda The Musical.