What are you doing for World Book Day this year? You could share a book by listening together to an audio story. Audio stories bring the written word alive with voices, music, sounds and songs. Listening together to a story can be  as pleasurable and memorable an experience as sharing a book. You can listen to old favourites or explore a new story, often if children have listened to a story first it spurs them to find the book and read it for themselves.

StoryPhones has a free audio story for you to download and share with your children on World Book Day. The Four Dragons is a lovely tale from China and tells the story of how four dragons defy the Jade Emperor to help bring rain to a drought stricken land.

Download the audio story The Four Dragons.

Download the story and ideas The Four Dragons PDF.

You can find out more about World Book Day from their wonderful website. If you are based in Wales you might like to visit the World Book Day website for Wales.

However you choose to enjoy and share a book on World Book Day, have fun!