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We hope you're wearing your poppy with pride today #RemembranceSunday #WeWillRememberThem
Illustration: #MichaelForeman from #PoppyField 2018
Hello Room Service, this is me, #Eloise! It's Kay's birthday so send me a rawther enormous bottle of champagne though I'm still not a day over six and CHARGE IT PLEASE! Author #KayThompson #BOTD 1909
Illustration: #HilaryKnight
Who's ready for #GuyFawkesNight?
Illustration: A Penny for the Guy by #RaymondBriggs from Festivals 1973
Before there was Harry, there was Ged. Remembering the irreplaceable #UrsulaKLeGuin #BOTD in 1929
Pic. From #TalesfromEarthsea 2006 Dir. Goro Miyazaki @JP_GHIBLI
"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
#WinniethePooh by #AAMilne published #OTD 14 October 1926
Well hello #PaddingtonBear! #MichaelBond's marmalade lover first appeared in A Bear Called Paddington published #OTD 13 October 1958
Illustration: Peggy Fortnum 1958
‘He’s the strongest man in the world.'
‘Man, yes,’ said Pippi ‘but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that. Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top' #PippiLongstocking by #AstridLindgren #InternationalDayoftheGirl
Ill.#IngridVangNyman 1945
'The fog closed about the children, and the grass, alive and writhing with the magic of the place, shackled them in a vice-like net of blade and root, as slowly the figure rose and came towards them...'
#TheWeirdstoneofBrisingamen by the master #AlanGarner published #OTD 1960
Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you’re the Charlie Browniest! Chuck makes his debut in THIS comic strip when #Peanuts by #CharlesSchultz first appeared #OTD 2 October 1950
Today is the #EuropeanDayofLanguages Sunday 26 September. Did you know that after English, Swedish is the most spoken language here in #Barnes #SW13, followed by French, Spanish and Polish? Nu ska vi fira!
Illustration: #PippiLongstocking by #IngridVangNyman 1945