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The BFG978-0-14-241038-7

Boy978-0-14-241381-4

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory978-0-14-241031-8

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 978-0-14-241032-5

Danny the Champion of the World978-0-14-241033-2

The Enormous Crocodile978-0-14-241453-8

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 Me978-0-14-241384-5

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 Recipes978-0-14-037820-7

Revolting Rhymes978-0-14-241482-8

Read Roald Dahl books from September through December, and track your progress in the Offi cial 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 Offi cial Reading Journal to receive your award (while supplies last):• An offi cial Reading Dahlathon Certifi cate• A free Roald Dahl book adapted into a play• An offi cial Reading Dahlathon Medal (while supplies last)

Phizz-whizzing books by Roald Dahl!

New this Fall Boy and Going Solo978-0-14-241741-6

The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willy Wonka

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The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Stories

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Roald Dahl Magical Gift Set978-0-14-241497-2

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REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY

Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website at www.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser,

gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more!

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 . . .

Matilda’s Word Mastery

Matilda loves reading.

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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.



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Marvelous BookmarksIt’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.



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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.



Write down your three favorite gobblefunk here and then think of a meaning for them:

Invent some gobblefunk of your own! Cut out all of the words below

Babble

Buzz

Ment

Whooshey

Scottle

Chiddler

Bumple

Piddler

Fibble

Glimp

Gobble

Dibbler

Buck

Scollop

Popper

Froth

Glummy

Dory

Grotting

Fizz

Squinker

Footle

Crackling

Foggle


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.


C. 1. You’ve never seen a person with an uglier face than my wife; she’s fearfully ugly! 2. I love to eat fi shfi ngers 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 fi rst Upside Down Monkey Circus.


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.


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its; D. Charlie Bucket from

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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-Blanks 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 fi ll in the blanks fi rst without reading the story.



In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly __________ hats and black cloaks,

and they ride on ___________________.

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.

REAL WITCHES dress in _________________ clothes and look very much like ordinary women.

They live in ordinary _____________________ and they ______________ in ORDINARY JOBS.

That is why they are so __________________ to catch.

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

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

and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty __________________.

Text taken from The Witches.

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REAL WITCHES dress in _________________ clothes and look very much like ordinary women.

They live in ordinary _____________________ and they ______________ in ORDINARY JOBS.


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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pion; 3. Fantastic; 4. Giant; 5. Finger;

6. Marvelous; 7. Chocolate; 8. Elevator


Perplexed PoetryRoald 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 fi gure out what words go where?





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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Augustus Gloop“The great big greedy___________!How long could we allow this beastTo _______ 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 giveEven the _________ bit of funOr happiness to anyone.

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Spotty Powder, the missing chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was found in Roald Dahl’s desk fi fteen 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 fi x herIn 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 understoodThat instead of saying, ‘Miranda!Oh, the _______! We cannot stand her!’They’ll be saying, ‘Oh, how useful and how good!’”

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for a buckswashling book chooser,

If you dare to read it, the complete Spotty Powder chapter

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby taking some words out. Can you fi gure out what words go where?

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