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HUNTINGTON — Cox Landing Elementary students took their reading outside, under the setting sun Thursday evening.

(WBNG) -- April 23 is World Book Night. World Book Night first started in the United Kingdom and Ireland on March 5, 2011. In 2012, it was moved to April 23, which makes it on the same day as William Shakespeares birth and death, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization International Day of the Book. The purpose of World Book Night is to encourage adults to read. It was inspired by World Book Day, which celebrates children reading in the United Kingdom and Irel...