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A book of activities for
your mind, body and soul.

About Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a spy, an ace fighter pilot, a
chocolate historian and a medical inventor.

He was also the author                 Wanting the best for her only
of Charlie and the Chocolate           son, his mother sent him to
Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and         boarding school - first to St
a treasury of original,                Peter's, Weston-super-Mare;
evergreen, and beloved                 then, in 1929, to Repton -
children’s books. He remains           where many bizarre and
for many the world’s No. 1             memorable events would later
storyteller.                           be recounted in Boy. Pupils at
                                       Repton were invited to trial
Born in Llandaff, Wales, on 13th       chocolate bars, a memory that
September 1916 to Norwegian            stayed with Dahl throughout
parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie         his life, inspiring Charlie and
Magdalene Hesselberg, Dahl             the Chocolate Factory.
was named after Roald
Amundsen, the Norwegian who
had been the first man to reach
the South Pole just four years
earlier. A heroic start in life. But
his early years were blighted by
the tragic deaths of his older
sister, Astri, and his father.

Continued…
School days happily behind         In 1960, Roald helped invent
him, Dahl’s lust for travel took   the Wade-Dahl-Till valve,
him first to Canada, then to       prompted by the need to
East Africa, where he worked       alleviate the head injuries
for an oil company until the       endured by his son after an
outbreak of World War Two. He      accident in New York.
enlisted in the Royal Air Force
at 23 years old.                   There followed a burst of
                                   literary energy: in 1961 James
In September 1940, Dahl            and the Giant Peach was
received severe injuries to his    published in the US, followed
head, nose and back when his       by Charlie and the Chocolate
Gladiator crash-landed in the      Factory. Roald then wrote
Western Desert. After six          screenplays for the James Bond
months recovering from his         hit You Only Live
injuries in Alexandria he          Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang
returned to action, taking part    Bang, as well as adult novels
in The Battle of Athens. Later,    such as Kiss Kiss. Fantastic Mr.
after a posting to Washington,
he supplied intelligence to MI6.

Continued…
Fox was published in 1970, the        In the early 1980s he
year before the film Willy Wonka      published The Twits, Revolting
and the Chocolate Factory was         Rhymes, The BFG and The
released. The rest of the decade      Witches. There followed two
saw the publication of many           autobiographical books: Boy, in
other classics, including Danny       1984 and Going Solo, in
the Champion of the World, The        1986. Matilda was published in
Enormous Crocodile, and My            1988, Esio Trot in 1990, and
Uncle Oswald.                         finally, in 1991, came the
                                      posthumous delight of The
Roald also enjoyed enormous           Minpins.
success on television. Having
already had his stories told in six   Roald Dahl died on 23
episodes of the award winning         November 1990, aged 74. He
US series Alfred Hitchcock            was buried in the parish church
Presents, his Tales of the            of St Peter and St Paul in Great
Unexpected ran for several            Missenden - the
series between 1979 and 1988 in       Buckinghamshire village where
the UK.                               today The Roald Dahl Museum
                                      and Story Centre continues his
                                      extraordinary mission to amaze,
                                      thrill and inspire generations of
                                      children and their parents.

                                        Illustration credits: Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl Word Search

  Gobblefunk                  Patricia Neal
  Wizzpoppers                 BFG
  Buckinghamshire             Snozzcumber
  James and the Giant Peach   Creative
  Lucy Dahl                   Captain Hardcastle
  Oompa Loompa                Miss Trunchball
  The Twits                   Boy
                              Inspirational

Roald Dahl Anagrams
Can you unscramble the Roald Dahl anagrams?

Tortoise

Halibut C creek

Will own yak

Jesting match pane
ahead
Madtail

Its the chew

Toggle reveals a stare

Fax fact on trims

  8, Fantastic Mr fox          4, James and the giant peach
     7, Great glass elevator   3, Willy Wonka
    6, The Witches             2, Charlie Bucket
      5, Matilda               1, Esio trot
                               Answers

Characterisation sheet
Choose a book and fill out this template on one
of the main characters.

Character’s name

Direct characterisation
What has the author told you?

Indirect characterisation
What can you infer from the character’s
action and interactions with others?

Description of character

Make your own Wonka Bar
Cut out the design below and turn your boring old
chocolate bar into a delicious Wonka bar!

Calligraphy Practice
Sheet

James and the
Giant Peach
Colouring