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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

by

Roald Dahl

Illustrator: Quentin Blake

Charlie's family is very poor - so poor in fact; that his two sets of grandparents share the same bed - two up, two down and have not got out of it for 20 years!

 

Every day Charlie walks past Wonka's chocolate factory with its heavenly smells wafting out. When Willie Wonka advertises that there are five golden tickets to be won and the prize is a life time supply of chocolate and a visit to the factory, children everywhere rush to buy his products.

 

Charlie knows there is no real possibility for him to win as his parents can't afford to buy him chocolate except on his birthday. As the first four children to find tickets are announced - Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Bearegarde and Mike Teavee, only the fifth ticket remains to be found.

 

When Charlie's dream finally comes true, he and his fellow winners set out on a magical tour of the factory where there are all sorts of amazing contraptions and the most delectable eatables ever made! Dahl's wicked sense of humour and wonderful rhymes convey a moral hidden in the story.

 

Publisher: Puffin

  • Quentin Blake

    Children's Laureate 1999-2001
    Quentin Blake was born in 1932 and read English at Cambridge, before attending Chelsea Art College. He has won many major prizes for illustration, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (1980) and the Red House Children's Book Award (1981) for Mister Magnolia. He is also the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and in 1990 was voted 'The Illustrator's Illustrator' by Observer Magazine. A tireless promoter of children's literature – and a long-time collaborator with roald Dahl –  Quentin Blake was awarded the OBE in 1988 and in 2005 he was awarded a CBE for services to Children's Literature. In the most recent New Year’s Honours list he has been knighted.

     

    Quentin was the inaugural Children's Laureate (1999-2001), an experience he recorded in his book Laureate's Progress. During his time in the role, he celebrated children's books and children's book illustration with a range of projects and exhibitions, and conceived the idea for the House of Illustration, the world's first centre dedicated to the art of illustration in all its forms.   

     

    Visit Quentin's website

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