FOLLOW THAT PEACH
www.followthatpeach.com
Set up to commemorate the 50th anniversary of James and the Giant Peach, Follow That Peach lets children and fans to send the James’ peach rolling on further adventures around the world. Send a virtual peach or download a paper Peach-gram to send through the post. The site logs how many peaches are in transit, the total number of miles travelled and the number of people who have rolled a peach.
ROALD DAHL
www.roalddahl.com
Who farted? The site did! Just a little Roald Dahl humour… The official website of the author lets children play games, test their knowledge of the author, listen to interviews and buy books. Richly illustrated with Dahl’s famous characters, as interpreted by Quentin Blake, the site also features top tips for classroom activities and lessons making it a top site if you love Roald Dahl.
THE ROALD DAHL MUSEUM AND STORY CENTRE
www.roalddahlmuseum.org
The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire is well worth a visit if you or your children are Roald Dahl fans. Use the site to find out what’s on each month – this month, there are lots of ‘peachy’ events and celebrations, including a rare opportunity to see Roald Dahl’s legendary illustrator, Quentin Blake, talking, drawing and answering questions from 2.15 to 3pm on 28 September 2011.
ROALD DAHL DAY
www.roalddahlday.info
This site helps you to celebrate Roald Dahl Day by providing Party Packs, Quiz Packs and Sports Day Packs, each full of activities, quizzes, information and materials to help make your Roald Dahl Day a truly great one. From September to December, children can also participate in a Reading Relay to be in with a chance of winning a Revolting Reader badge. They only have to read three books, but we’ll wager that they won’t be able to stop at three!
QUENTIN BLAKE
www.quentinblake.com
If you love Roald Dahl, then you must love Quentin Blake, the genius illustrator who brought Dahl’s fabulous tales to life with quirky sketches of famous characters such as Mr and Mrs Twit, Matilda and The BFG. This is the official site of Blake with videos and sketches showing his creative process as well as information for parents and teachers, details of his books, exhibitions and much more.
ROALD DAHL’S MARVELLOUS CHILDREN’S CHARITY
www.roalddahlcharity.org
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity was founded by Mrs Felicity Dahl, his widow, as the Roald Dahl Foundation in 1991. Since then, it has given more than £7 million in funding to help children and young people with serious, rare blood or brain conditions and, until the end of 2008, literacy problems. What a marvellous idea.
ROALD DAHL FANS
www.roalddahlfans.com
Although rarely updated now, this site is still worth a visit. Set up by Kristine Howard, it includes a lengthy biography of Dahl, together with links to interviews and a set of detailed timelines covering his work and personal life. Kristine has included the author’s adult short stories, together with the films with which he was connected in the Dahl’s Work section. In the Classroom features a range of teaching resources, including how to set about homework based on Dahl’s work.
Emily Jenkinson
5th September 2011