THE day is finally here! Today children across St Helens will be dressing up as their favourite character for World Book Day - and we want to see the pictures!

World Book Day will be taking over social media feeds as the event to celebrate books and reading takes place today, Thursday, March 5.

As always we're really looking forward to seeing your pictures so click on the box below and send them into us and they will feature in our online gallery...and may even make it to next week's paper too!

Please include your child's full name, age and school as well as the character they are dressed as with your picture.