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 . . .

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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

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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:

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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 ANSWERS: A. Matilda from Matilda; B. Farmer Bunce from Fantastic Mr. Fox; 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?

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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 ______. Text extracts © Roald Dahl Nominee Limited. (PLURAL NOUN) Text taken from The Witches.

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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. 1. STHCWIE ______2. MCAOIPH ______3. AANCFTIST ______4. NAIGT ______5. EFIRGN ______6. ULVRMASO ______7. AOEHTCLCO ______8. RLEAVOTE ______6. Marvelous; 7. Chocolate; 8. Elevator ANSWERS: 1. Witches; 2. Champion; 3. Fantastic; 4. Giant; 5. Finger;

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Illustrations © Quentin Blake www.roalddahl.com REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY Puffi n Books • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group • www.penguin.com/youngreaders RoaldPerplexed Dahl loved to tinker with rhymes, Poetry 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?

Augustus Gloop “The great big greedy______! feast How long could we allow this beast smallest To ______and guzzle, feed and ______gorge On everything he wanted to? nincompoop Great ______! It simply wouldn’t do! Scott However long this ______might live, pig We’re positive he’d never give Even the ______bit of fun Or happiness to anyone.

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, delicious Such a priggish and ______little kid. Mary So we said, ‘Why don’t we fi x her vicious Text extracts © Roald Dahl Nominee Limited. In the Spotty-Powder ______revolting Then we’re bound to like her better than we did.’ beast Soon this child who is so ______mixer 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!’” 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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