Name: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Rating: 4.092818428184282 (738 reviews)
ISBN: 9780141365374

Roald Dahl

Quentin Blake

'I, WILLY WONKA, have DECIDED to allow FIVE CHILDREN to visit my FACTORY this year. These LUCKY FIVE will be allowed to see all THE SECRETS AND MAGIC.'
--back cover

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie ha tenido mucha suerte. Ha sido uno de los elegidos para visitar la maravillosa fábrica de chocolate Wonka.
A veces, la toma de una decisión transforma tu vida de manera radical. Eso es lo que le sucede a Charlie.
(back cover)

Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate

Armando

Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way, in the beloved story that includes movie stills from the upcoming film starring Johnny Depp. Original.

Sarah Sammis

The gates of Mr. Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory are opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, and enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; 
Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!
(back cover)

Briar's Reviews

One of my New Years Resolutions was the read more "classics" this year, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of the first I was able to pick up. I was so lucky that I found this book at a local charity book sale! It was screaming my name the minute I saw it on the table and it's been screaming my name while it's been sitting on my bookshelf (well...desk. My bookshelves are rather full. I need to get reading faster and more to clear some room...).

I've seen both of the movies (Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp) so I knew what was coming. It was going to be a book full of shenanigans with some humor and lessons sprinkled throughout. And boy, did it not disappoint! I have to say, Roald Dahl is one amazing author and I really want to read more by him now. This classic is so full of childish nonsense and valuable lessons all at the same time. It's mesmerizing what this man could do with his words.

The book has some deep, dark material that comes off as playful. Charlie and his family weren't well off and Roald make that very, very clear. Yet the prose he puts this narrative in makes it seem... fun? Silly? I can't even pick the right word. As an adult, I am in awe of how this family survived but I could easily see a child laughing their way through. A child would truly have no idea what the horror of starving is like, yet it is described so amazingly in this book...

Seriously, I'm in awe. I am in complete and utter awe over this man's writing. He's a literary genius, to say the least.

There are parts as an adult that I can pick apart, but I don't think this book was intended to be some literary work that needs to be examined like Shakespeare. This book shows the good and the bad of being a kid - don't be stubborn, don't be a brat, don't watch television all day, don't go ahead without listening - stuff that we all learn as a kid. Charlie is the "perfect" child who listens and does what he is supposed to, and in the end he wins. Is this how life works? Nope. Is it still important to teach? Heck yes!

Wonka is such a wild and interesting character too. He's a very old adult but doesn't act like it who employs Oompa Loompa and pays them in cacoa beans. He has a giant workshop but no workers and wants to give a child his only life's work. Yes, that makes so much sense... Not. But it's believable in this book, because he's so wild and zany... I'd love to see a perfect adaption of this book - word for word, picture for picture, etc.

The language, dark humour and sarcasm in this book also make it absolutely hilarious. Snozzberries gets me every time! And Wonka's absolutely amazing sarcasm against the children... Well, it's mean but it's funny. So funny. I found myself giggling at how ridiculous some of the comments were, yet I still loved it all the same.

Either way, this book is amazing! I wish I would have read it as a kid but reading it as an adult was so much funnier! Amazingly enough, this book only took me two days to finish.

Five out of five stars!

I need some more Roald Dahl in my life!

Bri Billaney

Good book, but I literally can't picture Willy Wonka as anyone but Johnny Depp. Has this ruined it for me? Absolutely not. Do I get a kick out of picturing Johnny Depp's Wonka in Roald Dahl's universe? Absolutely yes.

Stef

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Ryan LaFerney

I couldn't recall reading this book as a child, so I decided to pick this up for a bit of entertainment. Let me start by saying that Dahl is a genius for disguising his morality tale through the veils of dark (yet kid friendly) humor. This book is truly entertaining and at times, quite frightening while also being touching (I love Charlie's relationship with his grandfather).
We all know the story. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a classic children's book about five kids who win a chance to tour Willy Wonka's mysterious candy-making operation. It's a vividly told wild ride with amusing, cartoon-like sketches from Quentin Blake. What is interesting about the story is that various forms of bad behavior are demonstrated -- but the punishments perfectly fit the crimes. Most the kids are addicted to one vice or another such as lust or greed, except for our hero Charlie, who is pure at heart, even though he lives a life of poverty that's portrayed as bleak and depressing. He has love and a wild imagination that isn't focused on owning things, over eating, or watching glops of television. You can tell Charlie is thankful for his circumstances while all the other demanding kids aren't. This is not a sanitized Children's story. It is raw and dark and truthful and it's message of thanksgiving, imagination and the affects of various vices remains quite important for children and adults alike.

Join Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka's amazing chocolate factory. With tips about scenery, props and lighting, this play is easy to stage and there are lots of parts for everyone.

A Play

Maria🥂

Just perfect like every children-young book roald dahl has written 🥂

Blackwell North America.

Christian Biet

Ce récit fantaisiste, riche en imagination, fertile en rebondissements, traduit bien, par son humour, l'esprit caractéristique anglo-saxon. Un supplément de 32 pages (jeux, tests, exercices d'observation) prolonge la lecture de ce roman.

Charlie et la chocolaterie

Sarah Escorsa

Un excellent souvenir de lecture de jeunesse!

Milo Jean

Honestly this was adorable. I can see why it’s a children’s classic.

Jennifer

It's mouth-watering and full of imagination.

Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket for a tour of Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his or her own way.

Charlie and the chocolate factory

Destiny J Tamayo

It was alright but I expected to love it a lot more. I thought the characters were quite flat and everything in the factory was just scene after scene with no development.

Jeremy Anderberg

Pretty weird, obviously, but still a really fun read with kids. Next up is the (original) movie.

I never read this book as a kid, and I'm wondering what kept me away from it all of these years.

It was weird as this is one of the few books where I have seen the movie before the book. Two different movies, in fact. So my enjoyment might have stemmed more from my mind's eye of Johnny Depp saying these lines as Wonka and how similar my preferred Wonka movie was to the book.

My only complaint is that, other than being better than the monsters of children he was accompanied by, and being poor, Charlie didn't really do much to win the factory. Unless the point was that good things happen to good people while the bad get their just desserts, but it is still an odd moral for a kid's book.

Trevor Berrett

A wonderful reread with my kids -- I'd forgotten just how much fun the book is.

Caroline Laidlaw

Charlie Bucket finds a Golden Ticket which wins him a whole day at Willie Wonka's chocolate factory in this captivating favourite by Roald Dahl.

Neveen Badr

I was reading this with my primary one children and they loved it as much as I love it. They have got attached to the characters; loved Charlie and found the other children really never deserved the Chocolate Factory.
Just magnificent tale about how satisfaction can gets you even the most wonderful things in life. Appreciate what you have and God will reward you with much better things. Charlie was indeed poor but well behaved...

Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

Kerri McDonald

I've always loved Roald Dahl. I read almost all of his books when I was a little kid, but, somehow, I never got to this one. I loved it just as much as I loved the others! This man had quite the imagination on him and it still leaves an impression on me, even though I'm in my 30s now.

Lysh (She/Her)

This is a whirlwind adventure, filled with golden tickets, boistrous and obnoxious children, natives from Loompaland, a chocolate waterfall, a gum machine, good walnuts and bad walnuts, television-chocolate, and a glass elevator. This is my first time emarking on this journey with Charlie to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, all thanks to my teaching colleague, who assured me that I was missing out on childhood without this masterpiece in my "read" pile. As per usual, she was correct. 

 

Although I'm reading this as an adult, I will review it as this novel stands in its genre and for its intended audience of roughly 7-10 year-olds. The characters in this novel are amusing and well-rounded (especially young Augustus Gloop!). We follow 5 children as they collect their precious Golden Tickets, hidden amongst Mr Wonka's chocolate bars. With these tickets, these few children and their parents/guardians are provided with the opportunity to tour Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory; the insides of which are suspect to rumour! Each child has their flaws; gluttonous, rude, spoiled-natured, addicted...and then you have Charlie, whose only downfall seems to be that his family has fallen on hard times. With this lovable child as our protagonist, we begin to explore how these flaws become fatal with time. 

 

The plot moves quickly and with wit. As Mr Wonka's factory works its magic to choose the winner of the competition for a year's worth of chocolate and sweets, we experience rooms of wonder and fun. Dahl throws us into a world we could have never imagined and makes the unbelievable, believable. 

 

Dahl's voice is clear and descriptive throughout. His use of vocabulary is fantastic to build childrens' word knowledge and to build an image for the reader. He has an obvious flair for poetry, as evidenced by the Oompa Loompas' songs of woe throughout. 

 

The morals are clear for children and the values upheld by Dahl come through in each scene. I adore the quirkiness of Wonka and how his slight craziness adds to his success as an adult. I love how Charlie's positive qualities shine, together with his thoughtfulness and generosity towards his family. The ending is happy yet quirky, just like Wonka and his funny factory.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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