Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Some reviews of

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

One of the most popular childrens books of all times

Sunday Times

Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake have made an important and lasting contribution to childrens literature Guardian

A book that requires no introduction as it is probably Dahls best-known and most-read creation and deservedly so Brilliant

Lovereading4Kids

Winner of the Millennium Childrens Book Award (UK, 2000) and nominated as one of the nations favourite books in the BBCs Big Read campaign, 2003

Books by Roald Dahl

The BFG

Boy: Tales of Childhood

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Danny the Champion of the World

Georges Marvellous Medicine

Going Solo

James and the Giant Peach

The Witches

Matilda

For younger readers

The Enormous Crocodile

Esio Trot

Fantastic Mr Fox

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

The Magic Finger

The Twits

Picture books

Dirty Beasts (with Quentin Blake)

The Enormous Crocodile (with Quentin Blake)

The Minpins (with Patrick Benson)

Revolting Rhymes (with Quentin Blake)

Teenage fiction

The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories

Rhyme Stew

Skin and Other Stories

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

PUFFIN MODERN CLASSICS

Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England and went on to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. He began writing after a monumental bash on the head sustained as an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Roald Dahl is one of the most successful and well known of all childrens writers. His books, which are read by children the world over, include The BFG and The Witches, winner of the 1983 Whitbread Award. Roald Dahl died in 1990 at the age of seventy-four.

Quentin Blake is one of Britains most successful illustrators. His first drawings were published in Punch magazine when he was sixteen and still at school. Quentin Blake has illustrated over three hundred books and he was Roald Dahls favourite illustrator. He has won many awards and prizes, including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he was chosen to be the first ever Childrens Laureate and in 2005 he was awarded a CBE for services to childrens literature.

ROALD DAHL

Illustrated by

Quentin Blake

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First published in the USA 1964

Published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin 1967

Published in Puffin Books 1973

Reissued with new illustrations 1995

Published in Puffin Modern Classics 1997, 2004

This edition reissued 2010

Text copyright Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1964

Illustrations copyright Quentin Blake, 1995

Introduction copyright Julia Eccleshare, 2004

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The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted

Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-0-141-96061-6

There are five children in this book:

AUGUSTUS GLOOP
A greedy boy

VERUCA SALT
A girl who is spoiled by her parents

VIOLET BEAUREGARDE
A girl who chews gum all day long

MIKE TEAVEE
A boy who does nothing but watch television and

CHARLIE BUCKET
The hero

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine.

And these two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs Bucket. Their names are Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina.

This is Mr Bucket. This is Mrs Bucket.

Mr and Mrs Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie Bucket.

This is Charlie.

How dyou do? And how dyou do? And how dyou do again? He is pleased to meet you.

The whole of this family the six grown-ups (count them) and little Charlie Bucket live together in a small wooden house on the edge of a great town.

The house wasnt nearly large enough for so many people, and life was extremely uncomfortable for them all. There were only two rooms in the place altogether, and there was only one bed. The bed was given to the four old grandparents because they were so old and tired. They were so tired, they never got out of it.

Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine on this side, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina on this side.

Mr and Mrs Bucket and little Charlie Bucket slept in the other room, upon mattresses on the floor.