Phizz-Whizzing Books by Roald Dahl!
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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) Offer forms available at participating bookstores and www.roalddahl.com/dahlathon. Offer open to residents of the fi fty 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 The Giraffe the Pelly and Me Revolting Rhymes 978-0-14-241038-7 978-0-14-241384-5 978-0-14-241482-8 Boy Going Solo 978-0-14-241381-4 978-0-14-241383-8 New this Fall Charlie and the Chocolate Factory James and the Giant Peach Boy and Going Solo 978-0-14-241031-8 978-0-14-241036-3 978-0-14-241741-6 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator The Magic Finger The Complete Adventures of Charlie 978-0-14-241032-5 978-0-14-241385-2 and Mr. Willy Wonka 978-0-14-24174-9 Danny the Champion of the World Matilda 978-0-14-241033-2 978-0-14-241037-0 The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Stories The Enormous Crocodile The Minpins 978-0-14-241453-8 978-0-14-241474-3 978-0-14-241742-3 Esio Trot The Twits Roald Dahl Magical Gift Set 978-0-14-241382-1 978-0-14-241039-4 978-0-14-241497-2 Fantastic Mr. Fox The Witches 978-0-14-241034-9 978-0-14-241011-0 George’s Marvelous Medicine Revolting Recipes 978-0-14-241035-6 978-0-14-037820-7 www.roalddahl.com Puffi n Books • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group • www.penguin.com/youngreaders 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 ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website at www.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser, gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more! Illustrations © Quentin Blake www.roalddahl.com REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY Puffin Books • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group • www.penguin.com/youngreaders It’s easy to getMarvelous lost in the whimsical world of Roald Dahl, butBookmarks 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. Fantastic Willy Wonka the BFg Matilda Mr. Fox www.roalddahl.com www.roalddahl.com www.roalddahl.com www.roalddahl.com Illustrations © Quentin Blake Illustrations © Quentin Blake Illustrations © Quentin Blake Illustrations © Quentin Blake Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website at www.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser, gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more! Illustrations © Quentin Blake www.roalddahl.com REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY Puffin Books • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group • www.penguin.com/youngreaders Roald Dahlgobblefunk! 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: Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website at www.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser, gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more! Illustrations © Quentin Blake www.roalddahl.com REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY Puffi n Books • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group • www.penguin.com/youngreaders ? AllWho of Roald Dahl’s charactersam are memorable,i 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 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. Can you guess who I am? C. Mr. Twit from The Twits; D. Charlie Bucket from and the Chocolate Factory D. from The Twits; C. Mr. Twit Mr. Fox; Bunce from Fantastic A. Matilda from Matilda; B. Farmer ANSWERS: 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? Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website at www.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser, gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more! Illustrations © Quentin Blake www.roalddahl.com REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY Puffi n Books • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group • www.penguin.com/youngreaders a note about Witches: a Fill-in-the-BlanksFill in the blanks below to create your note about Theactivity 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, (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) and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty __________________. Nominee Limited. extracts © Roald Dahl Text (PLURAL NOUN) Text taken from The Witches. Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website at www.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser, gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more! Illustrations © Quentin Blake www.roalddahl.com REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY Puffi n Books • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group • www.penguin.com/youngreaders ' don tMr. letand Mrs. Twit them play pranks on each otherFool every day. You! 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.