Happy Roald Dahl Day!

Today is Roald Dahl Day! Get your splendiferous threads out and dress up like an oompa loompa, dance like no-one is looking and celebrate the great author’s 100th birthday! Can you identify some of his most famous characters in the image below?  

Babble like the BFG

Roald Dahl’s absolutely squiffling children’s novel The BFG is coming to cinemas on June 30! If you’ve never read it, The BFG centres around little orphan named Sophie, who is abducted in the middle of the night by a mysterious figure… “something very tall and very black and very thin”. It turns out that her very […]

Get your gogglers on these roses!

The Chelsea Flower Show is renowned for it’s gorgeous blooms, and this year was no exception, but one in particular had a story to tell. As part of the Roald Dahl centenary celebrations,The ‘Roald Dahl’ rose was unveiled by Dahl’s wife, Felicity Dahl,  and Sir Quentin Blake. The chosen peach-coloured rose has been created by […]

Feeling Naughty? Read these banned books!

Have you been walking on the wild side? We bet you have- and you might not have even known it! In celebration of Banned Books Week, we have compiled a list of titles you have probably heard of, but may not have known they were banned at one time or another. (Check out #3!) We […]