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Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Novels) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0-14-130115-5 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (252 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonka fun book
Comment: Charlie and the Chocolate factory, by Roald Dahl, is the exciting story of a boy who wins a golden ticket and gets to go to Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory. Charlie is a poor, kind kid who deserves to have something good happen in his life. Winning the golden ticket will change his life forever. My favorite character in the story is Willy Wonka. He is funny, interesting, and full of surprises. Reading this book will make you laugh and smile.
Rating: 5
Summary: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Comment: There are only five golden tickets in the world. Only five lucky people will get to go to the greatest place on earth, Mr. Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
Charlie Bucket is a very poor boy, who is slowly starving. One day he finds a dollar bill hidden under the snow. He takes the money and buys two Wonka candy bars to feed his empty, growling stomach. When Charlie unwraps the candy he sees a flash of gold shining from Wonka's fifth golden ticket! Charlie and his Grandpa Joe go to the factory the next day. There he meets Mr. Willy Wonka and the four other ticket finders and their parents. They are in for some great candy adventures. What will happen if one of the children disobeys Mr. Wonka's orders? Who will be the last one left?
Children and adults of all ages will enjoy this book because it is full of adventure and surprises. This book is so spectacular, people will eat it up!
Rating: 4
Summary: Snozzberries galore...
Comment: There's plenty that adults can learn from children's books. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is such a book. Not only is it a great read, it says something about greed, gluttony, and the dangers of the fantastic.
The story is probably familiar to many (thanks to the 1971 film adaptation), but the basic plot is this: Willy Wonka, a reclusive, famous (almost Howard Huges-like) owner of the largest candy factory in the world wraps five golden tickets in candy bars and distributes them to the world. No one has been in or out of Wonka's factory in years, but these tickets allow the ticket finders access to it for one day, as well as a lifetime supply of world-famous Wonka candy. Four tickets are quickly found by families who have the money and the means to do so (one of the finder's father even stops production in his factory so that his voluminous workers can unwrap the thousands of candy bars he's purchased in hope of finding one of the tickets). This is discouraging to Charlie Bucket, who comes from a destitute family who eat mostly watery cabbage and boiled potatoes. Charlie only gets one chocolate bar a year for his birthday - his father's job screwing on the tops of toothpaste tubes doesn't bring much income. Charlie's luck changes when he finds a dollar bill in the snow (after his father loses his job in the toothpaste factory the family begins to starve, and Charlie conserves energy by walking slowly, which helps him find the dollar). Luck leads to luck, as Charlie buys two candy bars and the second one contains a golden ticket. Charlie's 95 year-old (wow!) grandfather agrees to accompany Charlie. So, Along with four other spoiled brats and their families, Charlie and Grandpa Joe tour the Wonka factory. Inside, the factory is filled with amazing things, and the spoiled brats show their worst side and also expose the dangerous side of the fantastic. A river of chocolate is great until you fall into it. Trained squirrels are great unless they mistake you for a bad nut and through you in the chute. Chewing gum that tastes and nourishes as though it were an entire three course meal is great as long as the forumla is right and doesn't turn you into a giant blueberry. Being allowed into the Wonka factory is an amazing experience unless you're a spoiled brat who needs to grab, chew, eat, or touch everything you see. In this case being a brat brings dire consequences. The reward for not being a brat is something unbelievable, but the "losers" still get a lifetime supply of candy and chocolate.
Fans of the film (which is mistitled "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" because Charlie is really supposed to be the hero here) will notice some great differences in the story. The famous "Oompa Loompa" song is not in the book, but they do sing, but they sing longer and more detailed songs than in the movie. One of the songs goes on about the evils of television:
The most important thing we've learned
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, never, NEVER let
Them near your television set -
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
They do not sing "Oompa Oompa Ommpity Doo, I've got another problem for you" such as in the movie. They also give credit where credit is due: the brattiness of the kids is also blamed on the parents. So in a way the story also becomes a lesson in parenting. The Oompa Loompas sing:
For though she's spoiled, and dreadfully so,
A girl can't spoil herself, you know.
Alas! you needn't look so far
To find out who these sinners are.
They are (and this is very sad)
Her loving parents, MUM and DAD.
In this way the Oompa Loompas almost serve the purpose of a Greek chorus. Whenever of the brats "gets it" they sing about the tragedy and probable causes of the event. This book is a very enjoyable read for any age. If you're an adult, don't deprive yourself of great children's books such as this one. If you're a kid, don't deprive your parents of your great books such as this one. Make them read it. Force them to read it. You know you want to.
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Title: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Lane Smith ISBN: 0140374248 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Puffin Novels) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301120 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Matilda (Puffin Novels) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301066 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The BFG by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301058 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, Garth Williams ISBN: 0064400557 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 15 May, 1974 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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