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People don Roald Dahl-inspired costumes in celebration of the author's birthday

Books 13 September 2018
In a tribute to the late Roald Dahl who passed away in 1990, people are dressing up as some of his most beloved characters including Miss Trunchbull, Mr. Fox and the Roly-Poly Bird.

‘If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.’ Roald Dahl, born in 1916.

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One must never pass up the opportunity for a bit of fancy dress! Happy everyone!

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School: tomorrow it’s so the kids can dress up Me: *$*^ he can be Charlie Bucket and I’ll make a Golden Ticket Kid: I got this Mom I present his interpretation of Fantastic Mr. Fox

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A Library Manager, in a book dress, reading Matilda on - you are welcome! 👍😁📚

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When else would you find the Enormous Crocodile, Miss Trunchbull and an Oompa Loompa roaming the corridors?

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My DAHLing Of A Daughter Would ❤️ This 👍

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Roald Dahl day was a total hit with the kids, whoever would have thought Miss Trunchbull would've had a great day at school!

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Today we’ve done a dress up challenge for . We had 5 minutes to find a costume around the building to become a Roald Dahl character. Can you guess who we all are?!

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Gotta love !!....yeah this maybe from 4 years ago but hey....what the hell !! ❤️❤️

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In honour of this is a throwback to 2017 when Daniel was still Willy Wonka crazy 😝💙 My boys were totally inspired to read books thanks to this amazing, gifted man and the illustrations of 💙📚

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“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” - Roald Dahl

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