ROALD DAHL DAY

A reminder that September 13th is Roald Dahl Day and this year is special: 

2016 marks 100 years since his birth.

The Official Roald Dahl website

Have you registered for the free Party Pack?

Roald Dahl Day - 13th September

By Amy Hesterman
Amy Hesterman,(Elementary Librarian,Madison Christian School,Groveport,OH) remembered Roald Dahl Day, they celebrated all month and had a lot of fun! Here are her two great displays and what she says about them:

'I had one display in the lunch room (top picture) with interesting facts about Dahl himself (taken from the book "The Missing Golden Ticket") and made a large candy bar from poster board, foil, and purple paper. On a side note, to celebrate the month, one day during lunch each student received a small Hershey's candy bar when they came into the lunch room. In advance, I had put a gold star in 3 of the little candy bars. When told, students opened their candy bars simultaneously, found the "golden ticket," and 3 won a Roald Dahl book (wrapped like one of the Wonka Candy Bars) of their own. This was a really fun month for us in the library.

Second display (below) was in the library hallway. This was a giant book I made that had "Never a Dahl Moment" on the spine. The orange bubbles are simply titles of Dahl books, including the Roald Dahl calendar'.





















Roald Dahl Day takes place every year on 13 September, on the birthday of the World's No. 1 Storyteller.
For more details and ideas see Roald Dahl Day
Have a peachy Roald Dahl Day in 2011!

Roald Dahl

By Elaine Pearson
One of our English teachers has just finished reading 'Boy' with her year nine class and asked if I could do a display to promote Roald Dahl's other books.
The bad news - We just missed the official Roald Dahl Day on September 13th!
The good news - I found a fantastic site linked to Roald Dahl Day with loads of downloadable pictures, games, fun ideas etc etc - so next year I will be ready to run my own Roald Dahl celebrations!!: Roald Dahl Day


My simple, cheap and quick display used a poster from the Roald Dahl Day site site which I enlarged, cut up and pasted on some lovely bright card. I photocopied the spines of the books we have in our library for Matilda to sit on. I had some balloons but the students popped them - of course!! The URL on the display is to encourage the students to check out Roald Dahl's great interactive website:
Roald Dahl



(Click on pictures for details)