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I am the sea
and nobody
owns
me
#PippiLongstocking🌻
Happy #WorldPoetryDay everyone!
Illustration: #IngridVangNyman from Do You Know Pippi Longstocking? by #AstridLindgren 1945
Today we're wishing a huge happy birthday to @simon_francesca #BOTD! Here's hoping #HorridHenry - or Hack and Whack! - aren't popping by later!🍟🍟🍟🍕🍟🍟🍟
'If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.' Wishing children's books champ #DollyParton a huge happy birthday! Here's our top five to get the party started:
1. Jolene
2. 9-5
3. Islands in the Stream
4. I Will Always Love You
5. Backwoods Barbie
Discuss.
'This is where all dreams is beginning.'
Hooray it's The BFG's birthday! First published by #RoaldDahl #OTD 1982
Illustration: Sir Quentin Blake
'The two friends sat by the fire.
The hands of the clock
move to show the hours
of a merry #ChristmasEve.'
Frog and Toad All Year by #ArnoldLobel 1976
It's the night before the night before #Christmas so it can only be #Busytown by #RichardScarry for bedtime!
⚠️WARNING! Contains the word skipickledoo!
Happy Birthday Sir Jackanory! Illustrator extraordinaire for #RoaldDahl, #MrMagnolia and so many more, our first Children's Laureate and lover of birds THE #QuentinBlake was #BOTD 1932
Enjoy #ChristmasJumperDay! Responsibly.
Illustration: That Christmas by @rebecca_cobb 2020 @PuffinBooks
Curiouser and curiouser! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by #LewisCarroll published #OTD 1865
Illustration: #HelenOxenbury 2001
Happy Birthday #AstridLindgren #BOTD 1907 with lots of love from #PippiLongstocking
@Pippiandfriends @OxfordChildrens