The BFG

By Roald Dahl

The BFG is no ordinary bonecrunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky
for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the
Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants—rather
than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are
flush-bunking off to England to swallomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must
stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
 Giants’ Names
BFG stands for “Big Friendly Giant,” but the other giants have names that are not so
friendly. Can you find them all?

Fleshlumpeater Meatdripper Butcher Boy

Bonecruncher Gizzardgulper BFG
Manhugger Maidmasher
Childchewer Bloodbottler
What would you name a scary man-eating giant?

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 The BFG’s Dictionary
Crodswoggle - craziness Squiff-squiddled – mixed up

Flushbunking – ridiculous Swizzfiggling – tricking or fooling someone

Gobblefunk – to mess around Twitch-tickling – confusing

Puddlenuts – nothing special Whizzpopping – making a rude noise

Razztwizzler – a great experience Whoppsy-whiffling – excellent

Slushbungle – nonsense Zozimus – the material that dreams are made of

See if you can find and figure out the meaning of some of these other silly words in
each chapter:
The Giants
Moocheling and footcheling _________________________________________________

Snozzcumbers
Wondercrump __________________________________________________
Whoopsey-splunkers __________________________________________________

The Bloodbottler
Jabbeling __________________________________________________
Scrumdiddlyumptious __________________________________________________
Buggles __________________________________________________

Journey to Dream Country

Hopscotchy __________________________________________________

Figure out what the sentence means:

You figured out those squiff-squiggled _______________ words!

Sometimes they may look like slushbungle _______________, but now
we have a whoopsey-splunkers _______________ dictionary to figure
them out. We won’t be twitch-tickled _______________ when someone
is jabbeling _______________ in a strange way!

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 At the Zoo with BFG!
Hippodumplings Quogwinkles
The BFG tells Sophie about
animals she has never
heard of. He also gets the
names of real animals a
little confused. Draw
what you imagine each
type of animal would look
like! One has been drawn
for you.
Clockcoaches Jiggyraffes Crockadowndillies

Cattypiddlers Slimewranglers Rhinostossterisses

Humplecrimp The great squizzly Make up your own!

scotch-hopper
The ____________

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Human Beans: Can you match the country to the flavor?

1. Turkey a. Cardigans

2. Greece b. Chilly

3. Panama c. Turkey

4. Jersey d. Sweet and sour

5. Wales e. Greasy

6. Denmark f. Ice cream

7. Labrador (Hint: read carefully!) g. Great danes

8. Wellington h. Hats

9. England i. Fishy

10. Eskimo j. “Crodscollop”

k, 7. g, 8. l, 9. j, 10. f, 11. b, 12. d
Answers: 1. c, 2. e, 3. h, 4. a, 5. i, 6.

11. Chile k. Labradors

12. Sweden l. Boots

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 Frobscottle
“The liquid inside it was pale green…
It tasted of vanilla and cream, with just the faintest trace of
raspberries on the edge of the flavour.
And the bubbles were wonderful.”
Ingredients

Ginger ale Vanilla ice cream Raspberry sorbet Green food coloring

1. Pour two scoops vanilla ice cream and one scoop raspberry sorbet into a cup
or glass.
2. Fill with ginger ale until ice cream is covered completely. Stir.
3. Add a few drops of food coloring, until the drink has a pale green tint. Enjoy!

Author Roald Dahl and

Illustrator Quentin Blake
enjoying delicious bottles
of frobscottle and some
awful snozzcumbers.

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 Dream Jar
A phizzwizard: “There was just a touch of colour in it, a pale sea-green, soft and
shimmering and very beautiful.”
A trogglehumper: ”Inside the jar Sophie could see the faint scarlet outline of something
that looked like a mixture between a blob of gas and a bubble of jelly.”

Materials

Yarn Cotton balls Glow sticks A jar

Paper Tape A pen or pencil

1. Decide if your dream is going to be a phizzwizard (a very good dream) or a

trogglehumper (a terrible dream).
2. If your dream is a phizzwizard, choose light-colored cotton balls and bright yarn. If it’s a
trogglehumper, choose dark cotton balls and red or purple yarn. Mix some of the cotton
balls and the yarn into a tangled swirl.
3. Cut pieces of yarn so that they are about half the height of the jar in length. Attach
cotton balls to the ends of them, either using tape or by tying the yarn.
4. Tape the pieces of yarn (now with cotton balls attached) to the bottom of the jar’s lid.
5. On the paper, write what happens in this dream. Use examples from the BFG’s
collections if you need help.
6. Tape the description onto the jar.
7. Crack the glow stick and slip it into the middle of the yarn-cotton mixture. Put the lid
back on the jar.
8. Dim or turn off the lights and look at everyone’s dreams!

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 Further Reading
The BFG
The BFG
By Roald Dahl
“The BFG is no ordinary
bonecrunching giant. He is far too nice and
jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had
she been carried off in the middle of the
night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater,
the Bonecruncher, or any of the other
giants—rather than the BFG—she would
have soon become breakfast!”

The BFG: A Set of Plays

By Roald Dahl, Adapted by David Wood
“You’ll have a phizzwizardly good time joining the Big Friendly Giant E-2
and Sophie on their exciting adventures. These dramatizations based on Roald DAH
Dahl’s beloved book can be performed in school and at summer camp, acted out
at home, or simply read together by a group of friends. With useful tips on
staging, props, and costumes, these plays are easy to perform and are sure to be
great fun for everyone!”

About the Author

Boy and Going Solo
By Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
“Boy is the story of Roald Dahl’s very own
boyhood, including tales of sweet shops and chocolate,
mean old ladies, and the Great Mouse Plot.” E-2
“Going Solo tells of how, when he grew up, Roald DAH
Dahl left England for Africa and later went flying with
the Royal Air Force. See where Roald Dahl got all of his
wonderful ideas for stories, before he became the world’s
number-one storyteller.”

Roald Dahl: Kids Love His Stories

By Christopher Meeks
“Kids made fun of his Norwegian name. Stern headmasters at his J
boarding school were mean to him. During World War II, Roald Dahl flew 921
dangerous missions as a British fighter pilot. He survived and became a famous DAHL
writer. Here is the story of the man who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, MEE
The Witches, and other classic children’s tales.” A “Reaching Your Goal” book
about overcoming obstacles and not giving up.

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 More Roald Dahl

The Roald Dahl Audio Collection

Written and performed by Roald Dahl JCDS
Includes: Charlie and the Chocolate E-2
Factory, James and the Giant Peach, DAH
Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Enormous
Crocodile, and The Magic Finger.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Augustus Gloop eats himself sick.
Veruca Salt is a spoiled-rotten brat. E-2
Violet Beauregarde chews gum day and DAH
night. Mike Teavee is a television fiend. Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, is brave and
true and very, very, hungry. What do these five have in common? Why, they’re
the luckiest children in the entire world: they’ve each won the chance to enter
Willy Wonka’s famous, mysterious chocolate factory.”

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Charlie Bucket is back in this exciting sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate E-2
Factory. Charlie, Mr. Willy Wonka, and Charlie’s parents and DAH
grandparents blast off into space—via the Great Glass Elevator—and into
an extraordinary series of strange, but funny, adventures.

Danny the Champion of the World

Danny has a life any boy would love—his home is a gypsy caravan, he’s
the younger master car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, E-2
who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. But one night Danny’s off DAH
on a wild adventure. Until Mr. Hazell shows up. He’s hopping mad, and
he’s come to claim what’s his.

Esio Trot
Mr. Hoppy is a shy and lonely old man whose love for the flowers he
grows on his balcony is exceeded only by his love for Mrs. Silver, the lady
who lives in the apartment below his. But Mrs. Silver devotes all of her E-2
attention to another… Alfie, her pet tortoise, and the poor man’s love DAH
remains unrequited. If only Mr. Hoppy could do something tremendous—
like saving her life—or perform some feat that would prove him the
cleverest man alive. Finally he comes up with an ingenious plot to defeat
his rival and win his true love’s heart—a plot that will delight and amaze,
involving as it does a cryptic riddle and 140 tortoises of all sizes.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Meet Boggis, a terrible man; Bunce, a nasty man; and Bean, a beastly man. E-2
They’re the three meanest farmers around, and a daring little thief has DAH
been robbing them blind. It’s Fantastic Mr. Fox!

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George’s Marvelous Medicine E-2
George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grouchy,
grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. Luckily George has just had the DAH
most amazing idea. He’ll brew a special grandma medicine, a remedy for
everything. And George knows just the right ingredients to make the old
bird sing and her dark spirits bright. Grandma’s in for the biggest
surprise of her life—and so is George, when he sees the magical
marvelous results of his mixture!

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

When Billy joins The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company, he’s in for
the time of his life! What else could a Giraffe with an extending neck, a E-2
Pelican with a bucket-sized beak, a dancing Monkey, and Billy, a boy with DAH
a dream, be but The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company? When this
amazing group is invited to try and clean all 677 windows belonging to
His Grace The Duke of Hampshire, it is no wonder that they have the
most incredible adventures!

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl’s first book for young
people. This edition includes an
interview with the author. E-2
When James accidentally drops some DAH
magic crystals by the old peach tree,
strange things start to happen. The
peach at the top of the tree begins to
grow, and before long it’s as big as a
house. When James discovers a secret entranceway into the fruit and
crawls inside, he meets wonderful new friends—the Old-Green-
Grasshopper, the dainty Ladybug, and the Centipede of the multiple boots.
After years of feeling like an outsider in his aunts’ house, James has finally
found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach
household starts rolling away—and the adventure begins!

The Magic Finger

The Greggs are hunters who will shoot anything in woods for fun. The
little girl who lives next door hates it. She tries to talk them out of it, but
they only laugh at her—so she turns her “magic finger” on them. They E-2
next morning, to their surprise, the Greggs wake up bird-sized, complete DAH
with wings. And before they know it, they’re living in a nest, while four
strange human-size ducks have taken over their house! Now the shoe is
on the other foot—and that foot is webbed.

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Matilda
Who put superglue in Dad’s hat? Was it really a ghost that made Mom
tear out of the house? Matilda is a genius with idiot parents—and she’s E-2
having a great time driving them crazy. But at school things are different. DAH
At school there’s Miss Trunchbull, two hundred pounds of kid-hating
mistress. Get rid of the Trunchbull and Matilda would be a hero. But that
would take a superhuman genius, wouldn’t it?

My Year
In a delightful month-by-month journey through the passing year, Roald E-2
Dahl mixes past and present; reminiscences of childhood and adolescence DAH
are interwoven with his observations about the changing seasons and the
festivals we celebrate.

The Twits
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world.
They hate everything, except playing mean jokes on each other, catching E-2
innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, DAH
the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-
Wumps have had enough. They don’t just want out, they want revenge.

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

The Reverend Robert Lee triumphed over dyslexia as a child. But when he
becomes the new vicar of Nibbleswicke, that triumph turns to travesty. E-2
For his condition has not resurfaced in its old manner, but in a virulent DAH
and highly peculiar form. Without his even being aware of it, the most
important words in the sentences he utters mysteriously turn themselves
around and come out backwards. A vicar calling on the blessing of Dog
Almighty? Drol help the good people of Nibbleswicke!

The Witches
Grandmamma loves to tell about witches.
Real witches are the most dangerous living E-2
creatures on earth. There’s nothing they DAH
hate so much as children, and they work all
kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them.
Her grandson listens closely to
Grandmamma’s stories—but nothing can
prepare him for the day he comes face to
face with The Grand High Witch herself!

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

Seven stories of fantasy and fun by the fantastic Roald Dahl. Includes: The
Hitchhiker (proof that in a pinch a professional pickpocket can be the E-2
perfect pal), The Mildenhall Treasure (the true tale of a fortune found and DAH
an opportunity lost), and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (in which
a modern-day Robin Hood brings joy to the hearts of orphans—and fear
to the souls of casino owners worldwide) and more. It also includes the
story of how Roald Dahl became a writer, in his own words.
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