British author Roald Dahl wrote the nuttiest, wackiest, most magical children's stories, and The Royal Mail just released this rad set of stamps to celebrate him. What's your favorite Roald Dahl book? (Mine's The BFG.)
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These are darling! It's so hard to pick a favourite but mine might just have to be The Witches. Anjelica Houston was just fabulous in the movie version!
ReplyDeleteThese just made me smile. I loved James and the Giant Peach. But love them all!
ReplyDeleteLove! Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are tied for my fave.
ReplyDeleteI just LOVED Matilda as a little girl, I think because I identified with her bookishness. Read it too many times to count. I might have to revisit it. :)
ReplyDeletewhat a classic! i grew up with these books, matilda and james and the giant peach were probably my faves, but i have read them all multiple times!
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I've ordered them and am getting them for my birthday!!! Ahh!!
ReplyDeletehis books contain such magical language. my children love/d him! my favorite book was james and the giant peach, my son and daughter both LOVED the bfg.
ReplyDeleteOh I used to love Roald Dahl stories when I was little. My fave was James and the Gian Peach, surely thats the best by a mile?!!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about these stamps yet though and I live in England. Ooops.
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Ahh.. I wish we had those stamps in the states! I was 100% obsessed with Roald Dahl growing up, and read Matilda literally 13 times (I had a tally sheet in my desk at home). But I love all of his books - such a creative soul with an amazing gift of writing.
ReplyDeleteI adore these! I loved James and the Giant Peach the most. The movie was also WELL worn in my household:)
ReplyDeleteI loved reading Matilda as an adolescent. It was pretty magical. I remember seeing the move The Witches when I was younger. I think Angelica Houston was in it and it scared the bajeezus out of me lol!
ReplyDeleteI love those. The BFG was my favorite followed by a close second of everything else. I read his autobiography, Boy, when I was in 6th grade for a book report. It was wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThese are great! Hard to choose but BFG, Matilda and The Twits are probably my favourites!
ReplyDeleteSame, the BFG. Have you ever read The Vicar of Nibbleswicke? It's hilarious!
ReplyDeleteLove these!!! My favorite is also The BFG!
ReplyDeleteomg, the witches. scared me to my bones when I was a kid and still kind of creeps me out! I love it. charlie and the chocolate factory is a natural favorite.
ReplyDelete&& these stamps are way cool.
Matilda was my favourite for sure, because I was a bookworm and an early reader too! I think that's the case for most people who love Matilda!
ReplyDeleteGreat stamps, I might have to purchase them!
ahhhhhh this brings back so many memories!
ReplyDeletei LOVED the BFG and witches :)
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ReplyDeleteJames and the Giant Peach, all the way. I remember my teacher reading it out loud to us in second grade, chapter by chapter. It was 100% magical and I can't wait to do the same thing for my girls.
ReplyDeleteI would have to say Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is a classic, and I remember it first being read to us as kids when we put on the musical at my junior school - I was 6 years old and played a sweet.
ReplyDeleteI also love the Revolting Rhymes - so great!
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These are so awesome! I actually have a giveaway up on my blog - I'm giving away the complete mint Roald Dahl stamp set :D It's open internationally till this Sunday.
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PS: I quite loved Danny the Champion of the World
ooo these are great. wish we had them in the states. fantastic mr. fox!
ReplyDeleteAhh, I love these! I want them! My favorite is Matilda, I wanted to be her when I was little :)
ReplyDeleteI loved Matilda and the Twits!
ReplyDeleteI loooovvee his books!!!
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My favorite is definitely Boy, but anything by him is spectacular. I have also read some of his more grown-up short stories which were good as well. I actually still read Boy once in a while even though I am definitely over the recommended reading age of that book.
ReplyDeleteI love these and I love Roald Dahl stories...! Specially Matilda and the Twits. Genious!!
ReplyDeleteMine is also the BFG but I'm very fond of Matilda too- I must write some letters so I can get some of these!
ReplyDeleteAww..those are the sweetest and I adore Matilda:) Happy Monday, Joanna. xo
ReplyDeleteMine is totally Matilda- great book, and i love the name... but Charlie and the Chocolate Factory rocks too- these stamps are awesome!
ReplyDeleteI love these stamps -- so creative! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was always my favorite!! :)
ReplyDeleteYou can't make me choose! lol Okay if I had to pick it would be Matilda hands down...but Charlie and the Witches are a very close second.
ReplyDeletei love roald dahl. his collection of short stories for adults is one of my all-time favorite books!
ReplyDeleteI love these so much, Matilda is one of my all time favorite books!
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Mine's the BFG too! I remember thinking it was so hilarious when I was a kid...
ReplyDeleteHis story collection for adults compiled in the Best of Roald Dahl. Soooo good. The stamps are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteOh I am so excited! I devoured Matilda when I was in third grade, and I think RD was my favorite author for years. I can't wait to introduce his books to my Little Lulu someday. This is great news! Thanks for posting.
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Oooh, that last one-The Witches! I forgot about that one up until now. I loved that though-so creepy!
ReplyDeleteThese are so fun! I used to be obsessed with Matilda when I was young.
ReplyDeleteThese are pretty, but gosh, don't you think they should have put Quentin Blake's name on them?
ReplyDeleteI loved The Twits when I was little.
The Twits is by far my favorite, and it never gets any attention! All of his books are great, though.
ReplyDeleteooh, I wish I lived in the UK now! I love Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG.
ReplyDeleteI've been on the look out for new stamps, and these are so cute! My favorite Ronald Dahl book has to be "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
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My favorite is most definitely The BFG. What cute stamps!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting! I am always on the hunt for cute, collectible stamps. My favorite book by Dahl is most certainty Matilda. Such a great story!
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i love Roald Dahl's books and wish they sold these stamps here! I would buy a roll of forevers. I think the BFG was my favorite, too, but I also loved Charlie and the CF and The Witches.
ReplyDeleteI love all of his writings but particularly enjoy his adult short stories and two autobiographies
ReplyDeleteMine is never plural! Do they not teach you that at UMichigan ;)
ReplyDeleteLove, a fellow Buckeye.
"Matilda" & "The Witches" are my two favourite books!
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Oh, I'd definitely have to go with James and the Giant Peach, although my favorite movie was The Witches. Roald Dahl was a genius!
ReplyDeleteLove them all! But I have to confess that this whole Internet thing has turned me into a total lazy to write letters/cards :(
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"Fantastic Mr. Fox" is my favorite! Love the stamps :)
ReplyDeleteLove James and Giant Peach...but also am a tad obsessed with The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Love these stamps...would not want to actually use them. But I shall! We need to support the postal system.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely darling! my brothers and i all went through this series when we were younger, and they're still favorites of ours today. (Because when you're in the midst of midterms, Dahl's a good break!)
ReplyDeleteYayy, just got the stamp set and the postcards!
ReplyDeleteI loooove Roald Dahl, my favourite is The Witches! After reading I was always checking the eyes (and scratchy heads, and uncomfortable feet, etc etc) of every women I met!
Matilda! Love it and love the movie! lol
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check these out! My husband's and my last name is Dahl. These would be so fun :)
ReplyDeletehaha, I just realized those are British! Shoot!
ReplyDeleteProbably james and the giant peach!
ReplyDeleteI, like many other children I'm sure, learned to love reading because of these books. I was in second grade, and i made it my personal mission to read every.single.one. BFG definitely takes the cake.
ReplyDeleteLove! The Witches was my favorite, tied with Matilda. I LOVE these!
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ReplyDeleteYeah ...the witches are the best xx
ReplyDeleteThe Witches! And the movie with Angelica Houston was a staple scary movie when I was a kid!
ReplyDeleteJust thought I'd share this lovely quote from Dahl's "The Minpins": "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."
ReplyDeleteAll of them! He's my favorite children's author! Matilda holds a special place in my heart, and now that my last name is Fox, so does Fantastic Mr. Fox (I gave this book to my husband for the first Christmas we spent together while we were still dating...I couldn't believe he had never read it!). Did you ever read George's Marvelous Medicine? A little lesser known among Dahl's books, but every bit as delightful!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these great stamps Joanna. =)
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So fun! My favorite? The Twits! :) xo
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful! I love all of his books but I think I must say BFG, because my fourth grade teacher read it aloud to us and it was magical. BFG is followed closely by Matilda.
ReplyDeleteThese are very cute! My favourite is Matilda and everytime I got told off by my mum or dad I used to imagine I was her and plot my revenge! I teach very young children now but when I taught 7-9 year olds I used Georges Marvellous Medicine and the Twits in many English lessons. The children loved them. X
ReplyDeleteHave always loved charlie! These are so cute!
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Oh! I love these!!! My daughter's favorite movie growing up was James and the Giant Peach! I can almost recite every word!:) Charlie has always been a favorite of mine.
ReplyDeleteThanks for finding these!
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ReplyDeleteI grew up reading every Roald Dahl book I could get my hands on. 'Danny Champion of the World' is probably my favorite. Later in life I read 'Boy - Tales of Childhood' (a non-fiction look at his early life)...very good book.
ReplyDeleteThose are awesome! I remember reading all of Roald Dahl's books as a child. Those are some beautiful looking stamps!
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I had no idea he wrote all those stories!! I love the James and the peach stamp design
ReplyDeleteJoanna, I'm loving these! I teach 2nd grade and each year I do a read-aloud of Matilda. They love when I act out the Trunchbull parts and they're DYING to find out what happens (we're two chapters from the end now!)
ReplyDeleteI love the witches one! That book scared me just a little bit when I read it at 8 years old. =) Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletei LOVED the witches as a child...
ReplyDeleteThese are so good! I loved all of his books...although the witches is probably my favorite.
ReplyDeletefav by far is Matilda!! how adorable :)
ReplyDeleteThe Witches! I used to know passages from that book by heart!
ReplyDeleteSuch a magical story teller, he is. I like BFG as well as The Witches!
ReplyDeleteNice! I like the Witches and Fantastic Mr. Fox!
ReplyDeleteRoald Dahl is just fabulous... my only request for Christmas presents last year were his books. I needed to stock up because all my childhood (and adult!) favorites are at my mother's house!
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ReplyDeleteBIG fan of Roald Dahl. My fave was Matilda - it was the first book that I read and reread and reread...
ReplyDeleteI posted this great quote from him a few years back:
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these are seriously amazing, i love matilda and charlie and the chocoalte factory!
ReplyDeleteso cute! brings back memories!
ReplyDeleteI love these. My favorite is the Fantastic Mr. Fox.
ReplyDeleteEek! I just posted a blog post a little while ago about how I snagged the original Matilda because I was obsessed as a child. <3
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These are ingenious! Love them. My favorite is James and the Giant Peach! It doesn't get much better than giant fruit! I want some!
ReplyDeleteUntil a few days ago, I thought RD wrote only children's books. I ordered a copy of Switch Bitch, and Uncle Oswald and they are so well written. Love his writing.
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Roald Dahl was always my favourite! The Witches used to scare me so much - so many nightmares from listening to the tape of that book! I loved Danny the Champion of the World x
ReplyDeleteMatilda! Hands down.
ReplyDeletei loved Matilda when i was a little girl!
ReplyDeleteI love these! I loved The BFG, Matilda, and The Witches when I was younger. Still have my copies somewhere I think. Might be time to dig them out and have a re-read! :)
ReplyDelete((Sheepishly)) I didn't read any Roald Dahl until the Summer before I went to college. Or, well, at least they didn't impact me. I remember "James & the Giant Peach" and the "Witches," but when I went to say goodbye to my friend before she left for college, she was packing and amongst her books was "Danny, Champion of the World." She told me I had to read it, it was just too good not too. So I went home and read it in one night. A week later I went to college. I still think about that book a decade later.
ReplyDeleteI Loved the Matilda :)
ReplyDeletethese little darlings just made me so excited... *WISHING* the USPS would take a hint
ReplyDeleteOMG I love these! My fave was The Witches.
ReplyDeleteI love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Matilda. These stamps are so adorable!
ReplyDeleteI loved BFG and George's marvelous medicine and Danny Champion of the World. Oh and Matilda of course and The Twits.
ReplyDeleteOMG!! I was just talking to a friend of mine about how much we LOVE The Witches! Thats one of my all time faves :)
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Now.... I wonder when the U.S. Mail will do something as cute as these stamps. ??
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful! I'll have to have one of my British friends send me a letter with a Mr. Fox stamp on it ;)
ReplyDeleteThe Royal Mail puts out some pretty fantastic stamps. I remember a lovely set they released a year or so ago celebrating Morris and Co. wallpapers.
Well done, Royal Mail!
LOVE him! i loved the BFG too.. and matilda, the witches.. so many great ones! xo
ReplyDeleteThose are fantastic!! My favorite was Matilda, because I could imagine that someday I would develop super powers :0)
ReplyDeleteI think that Roald Dahl is one of the best/most imaginative children's authors out there.
oh how I adore these....they take me back to such fond childhood memories! I would have to say The Witches was my favorite book but I do love the Matilda movie!!
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love these stamps. makes me wish i was back in england. roald dahl is most definitely one of my favorites of all time and i'd have to pick matilda or fantastic mr. fox as my favorites.
ReplyDeleteI fell in love with reading with Roald Dahl books. If I had to choose, I'd pick BFG as my fave. (I'm convinced Dahl shares my dislike for cucumbers!)
ReplyDeleteoh my GOSH! I WANT THESE! my favorite book of his is James and the Giant Peach. it has sentimental value...it's one of the first books i remember my mother reading to me...it puts a big grin on my face when i think of it!
ReplyDeleteThose are incredible!! In elementary school, my best friend and I made a goal to read every book Roald Dahl ever wrote. I think we both made it within about 2 or 3 (I should track down the last couple and read them!). My favorites were Danny, the Champion of the World and the Witches. I can't wait until my daughter is old enough for me to read them out loud to her.
ReplyDeleteCan't choose between the BFG, Mathilda and the Witches !!! My favourite writer ever ♥ I want those stamps !!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Julia, it would be nice to see Quentin Blake celebrated as a part of these stamps, they are his illustrations, and I should think that for most people, certainly in the UK, when you think of a Roald Dahl character you invariably think of the Quentin Blake version of that character! Such a hugely talented illustrator, and I don't think you'd ever see a drawing or painting of his without knowing exactly who was responsible for it.
ReplyDeleteI love all Roald Dahl's books but my particular favourite is Charlie and the chocolate factory. I can't wait for my little one to be big enough for it to be his story too. The kids at school also loved having any part of his stories for reading or basing a literacy lesson on.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoarding the 68p & 76p versions of these stamps to use on my postcrossing postcards. It's really hard to get nice stamps in these values for internetional post once our local post office runs out!!
Tough to choose among The BFG, Danny and The Witches. Both Danny and the Witches were made into excellent films.
ReplyDeleteIt has to be The Witches since, to this day, I wonder abtsractly whether certain mean people - teachers or shop attendants - will suddenly turn and remove their faces to reveal...
...what I expected all along.
Oooh, I want these! My favorite Roald Dahl book is actually his two volume autobiography (Boy/Going Solo)... And Fantastic Mr. Fox, of course :)
ReplyDeleteI loved BFG too!!!!
ReplyDeleteBut isn't it so sad that he was a bigot and anti-semite? How can a person who writes such nice books for children be so hateful?
This post made me smile so much! I love The BFG!!!!
ReplyDeleteOur three year old is named Charlie because "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is my husbands all-time favorite book! We just started reading a few pages a night to our Charlie and he LOVES it!
ReplyDeleteRoald Rahl's Revolting Recipes will go down in history as the greatest cookbook I have ever read. Whimsical, clever, and tasty ways to create the dreamy cuisine found in his fictional pages!
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Matilda is probably my favorite book ever! I wish these stamps were available for US mail.
ReplyDeleteThese are fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI love these! Matilda was probably mine - I think I felt underestimated by my peers and teachers. I also loved James and the Giant Peach.
ReplyDeleteI love this artist. So great !
ReplyDeletesay what? roald dahl stamps? i really, really love 'em!!! (thanks for sharing)
ReplyDeletemy favorite book...that's a hard one. 'james + the giant peach' was always a favorite, but i really had a blast reading 'boy'. his life story was so amazing/amusing.
This just made my day! I LOVE the BFG, and The Fantastic Mr.Fox, Witches! Well, all of them I guess! Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteMatilda and the BFG are two of my faves! <3
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I love Roald Dahl! He was one of my favorite authors growing up! I think the BFG is one of my favorite books, too! I also love Matilda, The Witches and as I got older one of my favorites was The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, that is a really fun book!
ReplyDeleteLOVE roald dahl!
ReplyDeleteWe need to have stamps like this in the US. I like James and the Giant Peach.
ReplyDeleteThe BFG is my favorite too! I read it to my second graders every year and it is their FAVORITE read aloud. They beg me to keep reading when I finish a chapter. It's such a fun book to read aloud. I do all the different voices and it's so much fun to talk like the giants :)
ReplyDeleteI love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. I was never a fan of his illustrations. The characters seemed to flimsy and always in danger of bending just a tad too much.
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ReplyDeletei loved matilda and the witches!
i remember reading each of those books a minimum of a billion times....those were the days :)
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These are great! I love all of them....but I'd have to go with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as my favourite!
ReplyDeleteWe've ordered this stamps as a presentation pack. So great. We love all the books, but Charlie & the Chocolate Factory I think is the favourite.
ReplyDeleteMatilda!
ReplyDeleteI love James and the Giant Peach!
ReplyDeleteLove this! Mine was definitely The Twits :)
ReplyDeleteThese stamps made me want to rediscover old favourite children's books.
ReplyDeleteOne of my absolute favourite is Jeanne Willis' "Dr. Xargler's book about earthlets". A picture book about babies from an alien's point of view. It's hilarious! I will recommend it to everyone.
Matilda is my favorite. Followed closely by The Twits. These books are amazing, even for adults to read. I re-read a few since I've grown up and there were loads of important life lessons in there that I didn't even realise I was being taught as a child. The illustrator, Quentin Blake, has also written some of his own children's books and they are awesome too!
ReplyDeleteAH the memories. i always like how dahl made up some of the silliest and craziest words. reminds me i need to buy me a copy of bfg, a fav for me too.
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They have box sets at Costco of the books right now. I bought them for my daughter's bday party favors.
ReplyDeleteI love these! I especially love that the drawings are by Quentin Blake, who illustrated almost all of Roald Dahl's books. I grew up reading Dahl and to me, they just aren't complete without Blake's illustrations. As for my favorite book, I would say it's a tie between "Matilda" and "The Witches." Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI do love stamps they remind me the days when people used to send each other letters about their life and senses so I love these too, they are so adorable, anyway my favourite is Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I love Roald Dahl, these are spectacular!
ReplyDeleteRoald Dahl was my absolute favorite author growing up! I think he greatly contributed to my slightly twisted sense of humor. Every one of his books struck a chord with me, it's impossible to choose a favorite, but if I were FORCED, I'd have to go with Matilda just because I identified with her bookworm-ish-ness. This made my heart so happy tonight :)
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ReplyDeleteI just love Matilda as a little girl and I think that I identified with her bookishness.
ReplyDeleteI have Read it too many times to count.
I might have to revisit it again.