Phizz-whizzing books by Roald Dahl!

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 www.roalddahl.com/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 www.roalddahl.com/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
The Giraffe the Pelly and Me
978-0-14-241384-5
Revolting Rhymes
978-0-14-241482-8
Boy
978-0-14-241381-4
Going Solo
978-0-14-241383-8
New this Fall
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
978-0-14-241031-8
James and the Giant Peach
978-0-14-241036-3
Boy and Going Solo
978-0-14-241741-6
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
978-0-14-241032-5
The Magic Finger
978-0-14-241385-2
Danny the Champion of the World
978-0-14-241033-2
Matilda
978-0-14-241037-0
The Complete Adventures of Charlie
and Mr. Willy Wonka
978-0-14-24174-9
The Enormous Crocodile
978-0-14-241453-8
The Minpins
978-0-14-241474-3
The Missing Golden Ticket
and Other Splendiferous Stories
978-0-14-241742-3
Esio Trot
978-0-14-241382-1
The Twits
978-0-14-241039-4
Roald Dahl Magical Gift Set
978-0-14-241497-2
Fantastic Mr. Fox
978-0-14-241034-9
The Witches
978-0-14-241011-0
George’s Marvelous Medicine
978-0-14-241035-6
Revolting Recipes
978-0-14-037820-7
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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
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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
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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:
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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?
Can you guess who I am?
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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
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.
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,
(COLOR)
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.
(ADJECTIVE)
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)
(VERB)
That is why they are so __________________ to catch.
(ADJECTIVE)
A real witch hates children with a red-hot ____________________________ hatred
(VERB ENDING IN ING)
that is more sizzling and red-hot than any ___________ you could possibly imagine.
(NOUN)
A real witch spends all her time plotting to get rid of the children in her particular ____________.
(NOUN)
Her passion is to do away with them, one by _______________. It is all she thinks about the whole day long.
(NUMBER)
Even if she is working as a __________ in a supermarket or ____________________________ letters for a businessman
(NOUN)
(VERB ENDING IN ING)
or driving round in a fancy car (and she could be doing any of these things),
her mind will always be ____________________________ and scheming and ____________________________ and burning
(VERB ENDING IN ING)
(VERB ENDING IN ING)
(PLURAL NOUN)
Text taken from The Witches.
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and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty __________________.
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 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
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ANSWERS: 1. Witches; 2. Champion; 3. Fantastic; 4. Giant; 5. Finger;
6. Marvelous; 7. Chocolate; 8. Elevator
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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 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…
delicious
Mary
vicious
revolting
beast
mixer
If you dare to read it, the complete Spotty Powder chapter
can be found in The Missing Golden Ticket
and Other Splendiferous Secrets.
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“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!’”