Adult or older children’s Book Week costumes

Book Week costumes for adults and older or taller children

Aladdin 
Ali Ba Ba – Ali Ba Ba & the forty thieves
Alice
Aliens – Aliens in Underpants, Buy our Alien Antennae and wear your craziest pair of undies over your clothes.
Amelia Bedelia – Wear a dark skirt & top with a white full apron and add some artificial flowers to the front brim of a hat.
Angelina Ballerina – We sell pink tutus and mouse ears.
Animals – Various stories.
Anna – Frozen
Anne of Green Gables – You need a straw hat, pig tails & pinafore or apron. Think floral, denim, blues & greys.
Annie
Annie Oakley
Ariel – The Little Mermaid.
Army – Dreaming Soldiers, Owen & the Soldier, Alfred’s War, Amazing Armies, Stubby, Dreaming Soldiers.
Aviators – Flygirl, Biggles, I want to be a Pilot, King of the Air, Roald  Dahl’s Biography.
Bananas in pyjamas
Batgirl
Batman
Bats – Silverwing, Bats at the Beach, Bats at the Library, Rufus
Bears – Where’s my Teddy?, Bear in the Air
Beast
Beauty
Bee – Give Bees a Chance, The UnBEElievables, Honey Bees and Frenemies, Behive, Bumble Bee Boy, I am Bee.
Belle
Betty Boop
BFG – For adults we have jumbo ears available to purchase & waistcoats to hire.
Biblical
Biggles
Black Cats – Choose from a selection of cat masks, ears and tails.
Bob the builder
Bow Peep
Bumble Bee – Give Bees a Chance, The UnBEElievables, Honey Bees and Frenemies, Behive, Bumble Bee Boy
Bunnies – Bad Bunny
Buzz
Capes & Cloaks – Many styles available to suit a variety of characters.
Captain – The Admiral and the Penguin
Captain America
Captain Hook
Captain Underpants – You need a big pair of underpants over your clothes, a toilet plunger and one of our red capes for this one.
Cards – Alice in Wonderland
Cat in the Hat
Cats
Cat woman
Chef
Cheshire Cat – Alice in Wonderland
Chicken – The Little Yellow Chicken
Cinderella
Cinders
Circus
Cow – The Big Fat Cow that goes Kapow, Cows in the Kitchen, Are you a Cow?
Cruella
Dalmatians – 101 Dalmatians
Deadpool
Dipsy
Disney
Doctors
Dogs
Donkey – Shrek, The Wonky Donkey
Dorothy
Dracula
Dracula’s Bride
Dr Who
Dumbledore – Harry Potter
Easter Bunny
Egyptians
Elephant – There’s an Elephant in my Kitchen, Horton Hears a Who, Elephant & Piggy, The Elephant Whisperer, The Elephant’s Story, The One & Only Ivan, The perfect job for an Elephant, The Elephant in my backyard, The girl who stole an Elephant, Barbar.
Elizabeth I – Horrible Histories
Elizabethan
Elsa (Frozen)
Esmeralda – Hunchback of Notre Dame
Fairies
Fairy Godmother – Cinderella
Fantastic Mr Fox – Fox ears & tail sets available to purchase.
Fiona – Shrek
Firemen
Flash
Forest Fairy
Fox – The Fox in the Library, Jane the Fox & Me, Fox Friend, Little Fox in the Forest, The 3 Little Pigs. Fox ears & tail sets available to purchase.
Friar Tuck
Frodo – Lord of the Rings
Frogs
Frozen
Game of Thrones
Gandalf
Gingerbread man – Shrek
Gladiators – Horrible Histories
Gods & Goddesses
Gorillas – The Gorilla who wanted to grow up.
Goosebumps book series
Grandma Wolf
Gum Nut Babies
Hagar
Harry Potter
Henry VIII
Hobbit – Lord of the Rings
Hodor – Game of Thrones

Horrible Histories book series
Hulk
Hunchback
Ice Queen
Incy Wincy Spider
Indiana Jones
Jafar – Aladdin
Jack & Jill
Jack Sparrow – Pirates of the Caribbean
Jasmine
Jessie
Jesus
John Snow – Game of Thrones
Joker
Joseph (biblical)
Joseph (Technicolour Dream coat)
Jungle
Kangaroo
Karate Kid
King Arthur
King Henry VIII
King Neptune – King Neptune’s Playground Under The Sea, King Neptune’s Jewels.
King of Hearts – Alice in Wonderland
King of Hearts card – Alice in Wonderland
Knights – Horrible Histories
Koala
Kristoff (Frozen)
Laa Laa
Lab Coats – Dr McStuffin
Lara Croft
Lawrence of Arabia
Leopard – My Life with Leopards, The Leopards Tale.
Leprechaun – How to Catch a Leprechaun, The Leprechaun Under the Bed.
Lion – The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, The lion Inside, Library Lion, A lion in the meadow.
Little Bow Peep
Little John – Robin Hood
Little People, Big Dreams book series
Little Red Riding Hood
Lobster – The Secret Life of Lobsters, Lenny the Lobster can’t stay for dinner, Lorenzo the pizza loving Lobster.
Lord of the Rings
Luigi
Madeline
Mad Hatter
Magicians
Maid Marion
Maleficent
Mandrake
Maria (Sound of Music)
Mario Brothers
Mary Magdalene
Mary Poppins
McGonagall – Harry Potter
Merida – Brave
Merlin
Mermaids
Mickey
Middle Ages Horrible Histories
Military
Minions
Minnie
Monkey – Grumpy Monkey
Mummy – The Secret Book of Mummies, Goosebumps.
Musketeers
Ninjas – Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, Mad Libs, Ninja, You Wouldn’t Want to be a Ninja Warrior.
Nurses
Odlaw – Where’s Wally
Ogre
Oompa Loompa
Parrot – Some Birds, If you were a Parrot, The Parrot’s Theorem, How birds got their colours.
Penguin – Mr Popper’s Penguins
Peter Pan
Phantom of the Opera
Pharaohs – There’s a Pharaoh on our bath.
Pilot
Pinocchio
Pirates 
Pirates of the Caribbean
Playing card – Alice in Wonderland
Po
Pocahontas
Poison Ivy
Polar Bear
Police
Popeye
Prehistoric
Prince Charming
Princess
Princess Fiona
Pulp Fiction
Pumpkins – Goosebumps, Attack of the Jack o Lanterns, My Jack o Lantern, 10 Little Jack o Lanterns.
Quasimodo
Queen Neptune
Queen of Hearts – Alice in Wonderland
Queen of Hearts card – Alice in Wonderland
Queen of the Nile
Queens
Rabbits
Raggedy Anne
Rambo – First Blood 1972 novel.
Red Queen
Red Riding Hood
Redcoat Soldiers
Regency (Late 1700’s—Early 1800’s)
Reindeers
Religious & Biblical stories
Renaissance
Riddler
Ring Masters
Robin (Batman)
Robin Hood
Romans
Romeo
Royalty
Sailors
Sailor Moon
Safari
Safari Suits
Scarecrow
Scarlett O’Hara
Seven Dwarfs
Shark – Misunderstood Shark, There was an Old Mermaid Who Swallowed a Shark, Lego Super Sharks, Fly Guy Presents Sharks, Smiley Shark.
Shepherd
Sherlock Holmes
Shrek
Skeletons – There are hundreds of books featuring skeletons, a quick internet search should find some great examples depending upon the age of your students.
Sleeping Beauty
Smurfs
Snape – Harry Potter
Snow Queen
Snow White 
Snowman – If you do a quick search you will find plenty of books about Snowmen
Soldiers – Who is Sam the Soldier?
Sound of Music
Space
Spanish
Spartan
Spider – Mrs Spider’s Tea Party, Charlotte’s Web.
Spiderman
Storm
Super girl
Superman
Swiss – Hansel & Gretel
Tarzan
Technicolour Dream coat
Teddy – Where’s my Teddy?, Bear in the Air.
Teletubbies
Three Musketeers
Thor
Tiger – The Tiger Who Came to Tea, There’s a Tiger in the Garden, Winnie the Pooh, Little Tiger, Life of Pi
Tiger Lily
Tinkerbell
Tinky Winky
Tinman
Toy Story
Tudor – Horrible Histories
Tweedle Dee – Alice in Wonderland
Tweedle Dum – Alice in Wonderland
Ugly Sister
Unicorn – Thelma the Unicorn. Horn headbands available to purchase.
Ursula
Vampires
Victorian
Vikings – Horrible Histories
Virgin Mary
Wendy – Peter Pan
Where’s Wally
Where’s Wenda
White Rabbit – Alice in Wonderland
Wicked Witch of the West – Wizard of Oz
William Wallace
Willy Wonka
Wise men
Witches – Room on a Broom, Meg & Mog
Wizard of Oz
Wizards
Wizard Whitebeard – Where’s Wally
Wolf
Wolverine
Wonder Woman
Woody
Xena
X Men
Zebra – Headbands available to purchase
Zeus
Zombies
Zorro

Book Week is a busy period with almost all schools celebrating it in some way. You are welcome to just pop into our store to choose something, alternatively you may contact us to check availability on a particular item.

View our Book Week ideas for children here.