Happy Roald Dahl day, who was born in 1916. He was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot. He wrote for adults & children alike, appealing to the inner child in all of us.

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Today is Roald Dahl Story Day! Thanks for all the splendiferous story magic. Our illustration is from Storytime issue 2 and the marvellous Augustus Gloop - the great big greedy nincompoop! Who's your favourite Roald Dahl character?

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Celebrating 105 years of the magical storyteller on 'Roald Dahl Day' today!

He was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and a medical inventor, but we all love him for the world he created for us in his books! 🌍

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Happy 🍑🐞🦗😍📚 Love all these stories, read them all with my kids while doing lots of fun, you can get so animated with reading them 😀 when you’ve finished them visit the fab museum in the UK its great 👍

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A snozzcumber is a knobbly vegetable like an enormous cucumber with black and white stripes. Snozzcumbers taste disgusting but they are all the BFG has to eat, as he refuses to hunt human beans like other giants (from Roald Dahl)

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The Grand High Witch - Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”

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Idk I saw him and immediately thought he looked like a Roald Dahl character.

But wooooo

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A memory of elephants for

The Twenty Elephant Restaurant by Russell Hoban
Elephants Have Right of Way by Sylvia Sherry
The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl

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Mood:

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
Roald Dahl 🐈‍⬛

🎨 Illustration by Heikala

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A new Ninji Speedruns course has been leaked! This one will be set in the Nowhere theme in the Kirby's Adventure style, and will revolve around Roalds!

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Roald Viðar Eyvindsson interviewed me for about the Hungarian government's homophobic backlash against my children's books with the forthcoming Icelandic edition from !😍😍

https://t.co/J44ANZ7MS7

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OK so who was the worst? Aunt Sponge or Aunt Spiker? *asking for a friend*
by was published 17 July 1961
Illustration: 1996

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Roald Amundsen — the Norwegian explorer who, with his team, became the first to reach the South Pole — was born in 1872. See our highlights of the wonderful set of photos from the 1910–12 expedition: https://t.co/NeIvHPOlvz

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Maple bc she is such a sweetheart and lovely

BUT ROALD BC HES SO CHUBBY AND ADORABLE https://t.co/jWj2druTek

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It's celebrating when chocolate first came to Europe on 7/7/1550! Our pic from issue 2 by in The boy falls into the river & through a pipe to the Fudge Room!

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Her design is based on the "Little Red Riding Hood", and is possibly inspired by the James Thurber and Roald Dahl versions of the story, both of which feature the titular character fatally shooting the wolf, going as far as making a coat out of him in the Dahl variant.

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