Friday, September 13, 2013

Roald Dahl Day Blog Hop

                                                           















Bento Bloggers & Friends are celebrating Roald Dahl's birthday with a Roald Dahl Day blog hop. By clicking on the red Roald Dahl Day button at the end of this post, you can hop over to the next Bento Bloggers & Friends special lunch based on one of Dahl's books. The button will appear on each blog in the hop. I can't wait to hop through all 13 blogs!

I grew up reading the fun, strange, and slightly creepy stories written by Roald Dahl. Now, my son is enjoying them. Most people are familiar with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, but Roald Dahl wrote many other children's books. Here are two of the ones that Boogs (my 7-year-old son) and I enjoyed:

The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me
In this story, a young boy notices there is work being done on the old Grubber Candy Shop. A sign says it is becoming the LWCCo, the Ladderless Window Cleaning Company. Billy hangs around the shop until he meets the new owners - a giraffe who can extend his neck, a pelican who can retract his beak, and a monkey who is an astonishingly fast window washer. When a wealthy Duke wants to hire LWCCo, Billy tags along and shows them the way to the Duke's house. While there, the LWCCo manages to wash windows and save the Duchess's jewels from  the most dangerous cat burglar in the world. The Duke rewards everyone for helping save the jewels. The giraffe gets an orchard of tinkle-tinkle trees whose pink flowers are the only kind of food the giraffe can eat. The monkey receives access to thousands of walnut trees. Pelly the pelican receives access to the finest salmon river in all of Europe. Billy's only want is to have the candy shop back. The Duke rebuilds the candy shop and gives it to Billy. It was a happy ending for all.

In the EasyLunchbox: 
Almond butter & jelly sandwich. 
The giraffe, monkey, pelican, and Billy are drawn on cheese with black food coloring.
Candy ring for the Duchess' jewels. (Boogs had to save this for after school)
Grapes for the amazingly sweet candy in Billy's new candy shop.
Goldfish crackers for Pelly's salmon.
Carrots and tomatoes topped with radish flowers for Giraffe's tinkle-tinkle trees.
Almonds for Monkey's favorite food - nuts.


The Enormous Crocodile
The Enormous Crocodile in this story has a craving to eat some fat, juicy, little children. He tells all the jungle animals that he has "secret plans and clever tricks" to get the children. Boogs had fun guessing what each clever trick would be. The crocodile disguises himself as a coconut tree, a seesaw in a park, a merry-go-round animal, and a picnic table bench. Each time he almost has a child in his jaws, one of the jungle animals alerts the children of his presence. Finally, the elephant had enough of the croc's horrid ways and threw the crocodile all the way up into the sun. The crocodile banged into the sun and was "sizzled up like a sausage". Boogs said, "Oh when the sausage pieces of the crocodile fall back to earth, the children can eat him up in a stew." I asked Boogs if he thought this book was too creepy. He said, "No, it is not any creepier than Hansel and Gretel."

In the Laptop Lunchbox:
Spinach tortilla, hummus, and cheese Enormous Crocodile
Sunbutter and jelly elephant throwing the crocodile to the sun
Cheese sun with a dark spot where the crocodile sizzled
Almonds for the monkey
Licorice bits for the tail feathers the crocodile bit off of the Roly-Poly Bird
Spinach for the palm tree disguise
Grapes to represent all of the children saved by the kind jungle animals

Now that you have seen my Roald Dahl lunches, click the Roald Dahl Day button to hop over to see Robot Squirrel and the Monkeys' creation for Roald Dahl Day.




Be sure to check out the wonderful sites I link to on my sidebar! If you want to see more book inspired lunches, click on the "lunches" label at the end of this post or go to My Story Themed Lunches board on Pinterest. I would love for you to leave a comment to let me know you stopped by.

42 comments:

  1. All so cute, but the crocodilla is just awesome!!!

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  2. Cute lunches! I love that you included some lesser known books.

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    1. We had fun reading both books. I had not read either of them before.

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  3. awww....both lunches cute and I like the crocodile! Looks wonderful!!

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  4. Great lunches! What great details! I also love that you included some lesser known books. :)

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  5. I haven't had a chance to read either of these two books but now I need to! Thanks for choosing them and I love your Enormous Crocodile!

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  6. Love it! Just shared on my FB wall - but I've got to go pack my sproutlets lunches before I hop through them all - I'll be back!

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    1. Thanks, Candy Girl. Wow, I feel honored you started the share on FB with my blog.

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  7. How awesome, I love them both! :)

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  8. I love all your details, and would you believe that I've never read the Enormous Crocodile?! Guess who's heading to the library today!

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  9. Love your crocodile and your book descriptions!

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  10. Both of these are amazingly cute!! I almost did an Enormous Crocodile lunch!

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  11. Fantastic lunches! I need to get those 2 books for my boys, actually I want his whole collection for our library. Great job!

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    1. We bought both of them. You can borrow them to read with the boys if you promise to give them back!

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  12. I haven't read the pelican one! I just love your enormous crocodile

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  13. I loved the Enormous Crocodile when I was a child! Both lunches are awesome!

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  14. Super cute lunches as usual! The crocodile is amazing. The book snippets are nice too!

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  15. Your lunches look great!
    And now I need to read these books!

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  16. Love your lunches!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!

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  17. Wonderfully done! I love Roald Dahl books and we are big fans! We recently read "the enormous crocodile" and LOVED it! I am definitely going to surprise DD by trying out this lunch box! Thnaks for sharing on Kid Lit Blog Hop!
    -Reshama @Stackingbooks.com

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    1. Thank you for the kind comment and for hosting the Kid Lit Blog Hop,

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  18. Truly original post! Thanks for sharing.

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  19. Roald Dahl is just a genious. Thank you for your recommendations for 2 of his books. I had run across The Enormous Crocodile before but not the first book. I love your bento box ideas - I'm sure my kids wished I could be a bit more creative in that department! lol Thanks for linking in the Kid Lit Blog Hop!

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  20. Love your Roald Dahl lunches! They are totally awesome!

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