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Read Roald Dahl books from September through December,and track your progress in the Official Reading Journal(available at your local bookstoreor downloadable from roalddahl.com/dahlathon)When you’ve read at least three Roald Dahl books, send in the entry coupon from the Official Reading Journalto 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 UnitedStates and the District of Columbia, ages 7–13. Offer begins September 1, 2010 and ends December 31, 2010, while supplieslast. Penguin Young Readers Group (“PYRG”) shall disable the www.roalddahl.com/dahlathon web page on the last date of theOffer. However, if supplies run out prior to said date, PYRG will post a message on the Offer web page stating that all materialssubject to the Offer have been distributed. Please allow 6-8 weeks to receive your award.Phizz-whizzing books by Roald Dahl!The BFG978-0-14-241038-7The Giraffe the Pelly and Me978-0-14-241384-5Revolting Rhymes978-0-14-241482-8Boy978-0-14-241381-4Going Solo978-0-14-241383-8New this FallCharlie and the Chocolate Factory978-0-14-241031-8James and the Giant Peach978-0-14-241036-3Boy and Going Solo978-0-14-241741-6Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator978-0-14-241032-5The Magic Finger978-0-14-241385-2Danny the Champion of the World978-0-14-241033-2Matilda978-0-14-241037-0The Complete Adventures of Charlieand Mr. Willy Wonka978-0-14-24174-9The Enormous Crocodile978-0-14-241453-8The Minpins978-0-14-241474-3The Missing Golden Ticketand Other Splendiferous Stories978-0-14-241742-3Esio Trot978-0-14-241382-1The Twits978-0-14-241039-4Roald Dahl Magical Gift Set978-0-14-241497-2Fantastic Mr. Fox978-0-14-241034-9The Witches978-0-14-241011-0George’s Marvelous Medicine978-0-14-241035-6Revolting Recipes978-0-14-037820-7www.roalddahl.comPuffin Books A division of Penguin Young Readers Group www.penguin.com/youngreaders

Did you know that Roald Dahl’s birthdaywas September 13th? He was born in 1916!Celebrate Roald Dahl Month in Septemberwith these fun, festive activities.Matilda’s Word MasteryMatilda loves reading.Test your smarts! How many words can you make using the letters from thesentence above? Fill the spaces below with all the words you find. Play on yourown or with a group. Matilda has filled in the first space to get you started . . .singVisit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website atwww.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser,gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more!Illustrations Quentin BlakeREPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITYwww.roalddahl.comPuffin Books A division of Penguin Young Readers Group www.penguin.com/youngreaders

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.Willy WonkaFantasticMr. FoxThe alddahl.comwww.roalddahl.comIllustrations Quentin BlakeIllustrations Quentin BlakeIllustrations Quentin BlakeVisit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website atwww.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser,gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more!Illustrations Quentin BlakeREPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITYwww.roalddahl.comPuffin Books A division of Penguin Young Readers Group www.penguin.com/youngreadersIllustrations Quentin Blake

gobblefunk!Roald Dahl loved playing around with words andinventing new ones. In The BFG he gave this strange languagean even stranger name—Gobblefunk!Invent some gobblefunk of your own! Cut out all of the words belowand match them together to create new words.Write down the words you like the best at the bottom of the leWrite down your three favorite gobblefunk hereand then think of a meaning for them:Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website atwww.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser,gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more!Illustrations Quentin BlakeREPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITYwww.roalddahl.comPuffin Books A division of Penguin Young Readers Group www.penguin.com/youngreaders

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?Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website atwww.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser,gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more!Illustrations Quentin BlakeREPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITYwww.roalddahl.comPuffin Books A division of Penguin Young Readers Group www.penguin.com/youngreadersANSWERS: 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 FactoryD. 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 activityFill 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 answersduring 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.Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website atwww.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser,gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more!Illustrations Quentin BlakeREPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITYwww.roalddahl.comPuffin Books A division of Penguin Young Readers Group www.penguin.com/youngreadersText extracts Roald Dahl Nominee Limited.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 scrambledwords 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. STHCWIE2. MCAOIPH3. AANCFTIST4. NAIGT5. EFIRGN6. ULVRMASO7. AOEHTCLCO8. RLEAVOTEgloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more!Illustrations Quentin BlakeREPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITYwww.roalddahl.comPuffin Books A division of Penguin Young Readers Group www.penguin.com/youngreadersANSWERS: 1. Witches; 2. Champion; 3. Fantastic; 4. Giant; 5. Finger;6. Marvelous; 7. Chocolate; 8. ElevatorVisit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website atwww.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser,

Perplexed PoetryRoald Dahl loved to tinker with rhymes, and we’re tinkeredwith a few of the rhymes he wrote for Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby taking some words out. Can you figure out what words go where?Augustus Gloop“The great big greedy !How long could we allow this beastTo and guzzle, feed andOn 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.feastsmallestgorgenincompoopScottpigSpotty Powder, the missing chapter from Charlie and theChocolate Factory, was found in Roald Dahl’s desk fifteen yearsafter he passed away. We’ve tinkered with this one too deliciousMaryviciousrevoltingbeastmixerIf you dare to read it, the complete Spotty Powder chaptercan be found in The Missing Golden Ticketand Other Splendiferous Secrets.Visit Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious website atwww.roalddahl.com for a buckswashling book chooser,gloriumptious greeting e-cards, and more!Illustrations Quentin BlakeREPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITYwww.roalddahl.comPuffin Books A division of Penguin Young Readers Group www.penguin.com/youngreadersText extracts Roald Dahl Nominee Limited.“Oh, Miranda Piker,How could anybody like her,Such a priggish and little kid.So we said, ‘Why don’t we fix herIn the Spotty-PowderThen we’re bound to like her better than we did.’Soon this child who is soWill 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!’”

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