Celebrate Roald Dahl Day 2024
Roald Dahl Day returns for another year on Friday the 13th of September 2024. Roald Dahl Day is the annual celebration of Roald Dahl, creator of Willy Wonka, Matilda, the Twits, and many others!
Roald Dahl was born on the 13th of September 1916. The very first Roald Dahl Day took place in 2006, on what would have been the author’s 90th birthday. This year marks his 108th birthday!
How can you celebrate Roald Dahl Day?
1. Reread your favourite Roald Dahl book.
Reread one of Roald Dahl’s classics such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, or The Witches. The Witches is also available as a graphic novel.
Also search our catalogue for Roald Dahl's books.
You might also be interested in reading Wonka by Sibeal Pounder, (inspired by Roald Dahl's Charlie and the chocolate factory), and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming.
Did you know? Ian Fleming was also the creator of James Bond. Roald Dahl wrote the film storyline for the fifth James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, and he also adapted Ian Fleming's children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the big screen.
2. Read about Roald Dahl’s extraordinary life in the following biographies and autobiographies:
As well as writing numerous chapter books, short stories, poems, AND adapting other stories for films, Roald Dahl also served as a fighter pilot and as a spy.
- D is for Dahl: a gloriumtious A-Z guide to the world of Roald Dahl
- Fantastic Mr Dahl
- Boy: tales of childhood
- Going Solo
3. Watch your favourite Roald Dahl movie adaptation.
Dahl’s books have been adapted into dozens of films. Find your favourite adaptation of The Witches, The BFG and Matilda on our catalogue, among others.
You might also like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Wonka.
4. Act out Roald Dahl’s books.
Put yourself in the shoes (or paws) of your favourite Roald Dahl character, and act out one of Roald Dahl's stories, adapted into a play!
5. Tell a joke or two.
Make someone laugh with a joke from one of Roald Dahl's books.
6. Learn how to speak and write Roald Dahl’s language.
What does whizzpopping actually mean? Should you make your vocabulary a little more disgusterous? Where would you go to find a Vermicious Knid?
7. Read revolting and dirty fables
We all know how the story of Little Red Riding Hood ends, but sometimes the storyteller can twist the tale and give us a surprise!
8. Seek wisdom from the man himself.
Why not apply the wisdom learned by characters in Roald Dahl's books, to real life?
You might also be interested in How to trick a twit by Kay Woodward and How to avoid witches by Kay Woodward.