This year, for our annual celebration of the first ever World Book Day which was on 23 April, 1995, we’re focusing on the books written in languages that have never been decoded.
From Bookface to Facebook to BookBod
The new Centre for the Child in 1993 looked at the way children would be interacting with books in the next century. A cartoon character, ‘Bookface’ was proposed which evolved into Facebook and then into BookBod.
Here are a few of the first drawings of this character from the WoW archives:
