Read Roald Dahl books from September through December, and track your progress in the Official Reading Journal (available at your local bookstore or downloadable from roalddahl.com/dahlathon) When you ve read at least three Roald Dahl books, send in the entry coupon from the Official Reading Journal to receive your award (while supplies last): An official Reading Dahlathon Certificate A free Roald Dahl book adapted into a play An official Reading Dahlathon Medal (while supplies last) Offer forms available at participating bookstores and /dahlathon. Offer open to residents of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia, ages 7 13. Offer begins September 1, 2010 and ends December 31, 2010, while supplies last. Penguin Young Readers Group ( PYRG ) shall disable the /dahlathon web page on the last date of the Offer. However, if supplies run out prior to said date, PYRG will post a message on the Offer web page stating that all materials subject to the Offer have been distributed. Please allow 6-8 weeks to receive your award. Phizz-whizzing books by Roald Dahl! The BFG 978-0-14-241038-7 Boy 978-0-14-241381-4 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 978-0-14-241031-8 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 978-0-14-241032-5 Danny the Champion of the World 978-0-14-241033-2 The Enormous Crocodile 978-0-14-241453-8 Esio Trot 978-0-14-241382-1 Fantastic Mr. Fox 978-0-14-241034-9 George s Marvelous Medicine 978-0-14-241035-6 The Giraffe the Pelly and Me 978-0-14-241384-5 Going Solo 978-0-14-241383-8 James and the Giant Peach 978-0-14-241036-3 The Magic Finger 978-0-14-241385-2 Matilda 978-0-14-241037-0 The Minpins 978-0-14-241474-3 The Twits 978-0-14-241039-4 The Witches 978-0-14-241011-0 Revolting Recipes 978-0-14-037820-7 Revolting Rhymes 978-0-14-241482-8 New this Fall Boy and Going Solo 978-0-14-241741-6 The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willy Wonka 978-0-14-24174-9 The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Stories 978-0-14-241742-3 Roald Dahl Magical Gift Set 978-0-14-241497-2
Did you know that Roald Dahl s birthday was September 13th? He was born in 1916! Celebrate Roald Dahl Month in September with these fun, festive activities. Matilda s Word Mastery Matilda loves reading. Test your smarts! How many words can you make using the letters from the sentence above? Fill the spaces below with all the words you find. Play on your own or with a group. Matilda has filled in the first space to get you started... sing for a buckswashling book chooser,
Marvelous Bookmarks It s easy to get lost in the whimsical world of Roald Dahl, but we don t want you to literally get lost in his books! Photocopy this page onto sturdy cardstock. Cut along the dotted lines to make a bookmark featuring Willy Wonka, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The BFG, or Matilda. Color in the character, and thread wool, ribbons, or strings with beads through holes punched out at the top of each bookmark. Willy Wonka Fantastic Mr. Fox The BFG Matilda for a buckswashling book chooser,
gobblefunk! Roald Dahl loved playing around with words and inventing new ones. In The BFG he gave this strange language an even stranger name Gobblefunk! Invent some gobblefunk of your own! Cut out all of the words below and match them together to create new words. Write down the words you like the best at the bottom of the page. Babble Bumple Buck Grotting Buzz Piddler Scollop Fizz Ment Fibble Popper Squinker Whooshey Glimp Froth Footle Scottle Gobble Glummy Crackling Chiddler Dibbler Dory Foggle Write down your three favorite gobblefunk here and then think of a meaning for them: for a buckswashling book chooser,
Who am i? All of Roald Dahl s characters are memorable, some more than others, and each of them are very special. Can you guess who these Roald Dahl characters are from the clues given below? A. 1. I d much rather read than watch the telly. 2. I once tricked my dad by supergluing his hat to his head. 3. The headmistress of my school hates very small children, especially little girls with pigtails. 4. When my parents moved out of the country, I stayed behind with my teacher. Can you guess who I am? B. 1. I own thousands of ducks and geese. 2. I love to eat doughnuts stuffed with goose livers. 3. I wash every Friday. 4. I am just as nasty as Boggis and Bean. Can you guess who I am? C. 1. You ve never seen a person with an uglier face than my wife; she s fearfully ugly! 2. I love to eat fishfingers and tomato ketchup, minced chicken livers and scrambled eggs. But I never bother to open my mouth, which makes my bristly nailbrushy beard look disgusting. 3. I catch all of the birds for Wednesday s bird pie using Hugtight Sticky Glue. 4. I dream of one day owning the world s first Upside Down Monkey Circus. Can you guess who I am? D. 1. My house has two rooms with one bed, which was given to my four grandparents. 2. My father was a toothpaste-cap screwer until he was laid off. 3. I get a Wonka Whipplescrumptious Fudgemallow Delight chocolate bar every year on my birthday. 4. My Grandpa Joe and I got to take a tour of Willy Wonka s famous chocolate factory. Can you guess who I am? for a buckswashling book chooser, ANSWERS: A. Matilda from Matilda; B. Farmer Bunce from Fantastic Mr. Fox; C. Mr. Twit from The Twits; D. Charlie Bucket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
a note about Witches: a Fill-in-the-B lanks activity Fill in the blanks below to create your note about The Witches. You can do this individually or ask other people in the room to shout out the answers during your Roald Dahl Month celebration. For the most phizzwhizzingly funny story, it s best if you fill in the blanks first without reading the story. In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly hats and black cloaks, and they ride on. (PLURAL NOUN) But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. The most important thing you should know about witches is this. Listen very. Never forget what is coming next. (ADVERB) REAL WITCHES dress in clothes and look very much like ordinary women. (ADJECTIVE) They live in ordinary and they in ORDINARY JOBS. (PLURAL NOUN) That is why they are so to catch. (ADJECTIVE) A real witch hates children with a red-hot hatred that is more sizzling and red-hot than any you could possibly imagine. A real witch spends all her time plotting to get rid of the children in her particular. Her passion is to do away with them, one by. It is all she thinks about the whole day long. Even if she is working as a in a supermarket or letters for a businessman (NOUN) (COLOR) (ADJECTIVE) (VERB ENDING IN ING) (NOUN) (NUMBER) (VERB) (VERB ENDING IN ING) or driving round in a fancy car (and she could be doing any of these things), (NOUN) her mind will always be and scheming and and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty. Text taken from The Witches. (VERB ENDING IN ING) (PLURAL NOUN) (VERB ENDING IN ING) for a buckswashling book chooser, Text extracts Roald Dahl Nominee Limited.
don't let them Fool You! Mr. and Mrs. Twit play pranks on each other every day. Can they succeed in tricking you? In their newest prank, the Twits have scrambled words from the titles of their favorite Roald Dahl books. Don t let them confuse you! Triumph over the Twits and unscramble the words below. 1. STHCWIE 2. MCAOIPH 3. AANCFTIST 4. NAIGT 5. EFIRGN 6. ULVRMASO 7. AOEHTCLCO 8. RLEAVOTE for a buckswashling book chooser, ANSWERS: 1. Witches; 2. Champion; 3. Fantastic; 4. Giant; 5. Finger; 6. Marvelous; 7. Chocolate; 8. Elevator
Perplexed Poetry Roald Dahl loved to tinker with rhymes, and we re tinkered with a few of the rhymes he wrote for Charlie and the Chocolate olate Factory by taking some words out. Can you figure out what words go where? Augustus Gloop The great big greedy! How long could we allow this beast To and guzzle, feed and On everything he wanted to? Great! It simply wouldn t do! However long this might live, We re positive he d never give Even the bit of fun Or happiness to anyone. feast smallest gorge nincompoop Scott pig Spotty Powder, the missing chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was found in Roald Dahl s desk fifteen years after he passed away. We ve tinkered with this one too Oh, Miranda Piker, How could anybody like her, Such a priggish and little kid. So we said, Why don t we fix her In the Spotty-Powder Then we re bound to like her better than we did. Soon this child who is so Will have gotten quite, And her classmates will have surely understood That instead of saying, Miranda! Oh, the! We cannot stand her! They ll be saying, Oh, how useful and how good! delicious Mary vicious revolting beast mixer Text extracts Roald Dahl Nominee Limited. If you dare to read it, the complete Spotty Powder chapter can be found in The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets. for a buckswashling book chooser, oser, greaders