amandaonwriting:

Roald Dahl - 5 facts you probably didn’t know

1. Dahl wrote 17 children’s books.
2. Seven of his children’s book have been adapted into films.
3. Since his death in 1990, more than 37 million copies of his books have sold in the UK alone - more than one million a year. 
4. Dahl served in the Second World War as an RAF fighter pilot.
5. He also wrote the screenplays for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Bond movie You Only Live Twice.

From: dailymail.co.uk

Roald Dahl’s best-loved novels have been celebrated with new set of stamps. See below.

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“Yes, I love him. I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. Looks like a giraffe, and I love him. I love him because he’s the kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. Love him because he doesn’t know how to kiss, the jerk.”

Ball of Fire (1941)

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