PICS: Malala Yousafzai celebrate her 18th birthday with #BooksNotBullets

Last week in Oslo, Malala Yousafzai announced to the world that she no longer wanted presents or wishes for her birthday - she wanted action.

Over the past week thousands of people joined her campaign for #BooksNotBullets to celebrate the activist’s 18th birthday yesterday.

People are taking pictures of themselves with their favourite books, captioned with why they are choosing books over violence, in a bid to tell world leaders to fund education.