Charlie and The Chocolate Factory CD

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Summary: Charlie Gets a golden ticket
Review: Charlie is very thin because he is very poor and has cabbage soup every meal (think of that) Every birthday he get a chocolate.On his birthday this year he wishes he would get a golden ticket, but the chocolate does not have a ticket in.On the way to school he finds a ten pound note which he buy 2 chocolates one chocolate has no ticket and he decides to give one to his grand father but in the newspaper it say that a golden ticket was a fraud so he opens the other chocolate and there is a golden ticket in it.He runs home and spreads the news

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Summary: Excellent book that can be read on many different levels
Review: While this book is mainly written for children, it is also a book that adults will love. It is an in depth look into society and it's social responsibilities

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Summary: Author Study
Review: Charlie is in a family that is very poor. He lives in a small cottage with his grandparents and parets. He also lives by a great chocolate factory. Charlie is so poor that he only gets one Willy Wonka bar a year. No one has seen anbody or anthing go in or out of the chocolate factory.
One day in the newspaper it said that the chocolate factory was opening up. There were five golden tickets on Willy Wonka bars to get into the factory in the whole world. The prize is you get to go into the factory and bring any person of their choice. You have to read the book to see if he gets a golden ticket.
It was a good book to us because even if you saw the movie the book changed so you didn't know what was coming.

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Summary: Everyone will love it
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is brilliant. Roald Dahl's language is eccentric and refreshing. This book is about a boy named Charlie Bucket who lives with his poor family right near a the greatest chocolate factory in the world. When the owner of the chocolate factory, Willy Wonka, sends out five golden tickets, the whole world erupts in chaos. No one has been allowed in the great factory for years, and everyone knows that Wonka is a magician with magic. The story will make anyone hungry for a good candy bar and is easily amusing. I would recomment that everyone read this book at least once, though it was directed towards kids in grades 2-6.

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Summary: A delectably delicious book....
Review: This book is so delicious I just want to eat it! "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" might be in many people's eyes a story about morality but to me, it's a story about children and their love of all things sweet, sticky and delicious. Charlie Bucket is the delightful boy (who is so poor all he gets to eat is cabbage soup) who finds a golden ticket in a chocolate bar he buys with money he finds in the street. This ticket entitles him and a companion to enter the wonderful world of Mr. Willy Wonka, the most famous and mysterious chocolate maker that the universe has ever known. Other competition winners include such heinous but wonderfully over the top characters like Augustus Gloop, the greediest boy in the world, and Veruca Salt, a spoilt brat whose father buys 10,000 chocolate bars so she can win a golden ticket. These greedy children and their frightful companions get their come-uppance in various hilarious ways that will have you spluttering with laughter with every page that you turn. Dahl's most famous creation in this book though are the Oompa-Loompas, a race of small people that Mr. Wonka has saved from extinction in the days when he traveled the world. This is a glorious, glorious book, filled with amazing characters, incredible sweets such as the everlasting gobstopper for the child with limited pocket money, and the chewing gum that that is a whole three course meal in itself. Your mouth will be watering throughout the story, and the river of chocolate will make you drool a waterfall. A scrumptious book for everyone no matter what their age.

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Summary: magic
Review: This is a wonderful book. I remember reading this as a kid and feeling everything Charlie feels as he wanders through the chocolate factory. I just reread this and it is as great as I remember it.

Paul Amdahl author of The Barefoot Fisherman; a fishing book for kids.

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Summary: positively in the tie for my favorite book
Review: Just like "The Neverending Story", I hadn't realized that the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was based on a book. Thanks to an upcoming movie with the scrumdiddlyumptious Johnny Depp, I fortuitously got hold of a copy of Roald Dahl's greatest story, and devoured it in one sitting.

With apologies to Mr. Wilder (who made an excellent Willy Wonka), I found the book better than the original movie, and I'm looking forward to seeing the new movie, for reasons other than the delicious Mr. Depp. (Not that I need other reasons)

Willy Wonka runs a huge chocolate factory, where he makes all sorts of wonderful, magical sweets. To protect his secrets, the factory is run by a mysterious work force that never leaves the premises. Suddenly, Wonka breaks his silence and launches a most successful marketing strategy, in the form of a competition with an irresistible prize. Sales of his chocolate suddenly go off the charts, as people obsessively try to win the grand prize.

The five finalists come from different backgrounds. Four of them are obnoxious, each in a different way, and the last - well, his only problem is that he's dirt poor and tired of cabbage soup.

It's amazing that such a small book could hold so much information, and in very simple language it colorfully describes the bad characteristics of the naughty children, and how they get their comeuppance.

Throw in the amazing factory tour, and the hardworking singing Ooompa-Loompas, and you have a compact and entertaining story, which should be required reading for all ages.

Amanda Richards, February 18, 2005




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Summary: Dahl is the most entertaining children's writer ever, period
Review: As amazing as this book is, I don't think that it's the best work by Roald Dahl. But after the movie was released (and a movie remake will be released later this year), it is certainly his best-known book, and it deserves every bit of the attention its received.

Charlie Bucket is the only child in a family that's so poor that they all look forward to Sunday, when he, his parents, and his four grandparents all get an extra serving of cabbage soup. Charlie's life takes a turn for the better when he, along with four other children from around the world, wins a ticket that allows him entrance into the magical and mysterious Wonka Chocolate Factory. Wonka has been turning out delicious treats for decades from behind a complete veil of secrecy, and the guided tour is receiving international media coverage. Once inside, Charlie, the other four children (each of whom is nasty in their own particular way), and their parents find that the factory is filled with both wonders and dangers that must be navigated by one who is pure of heart.

This is a grand unveiling of all of the elements which mark Dahl's work. The imaginative storyline, the dark humor, the wacky rhymes and the strong identification with a good-hearted child protagonist are all in evidence. Readers who have grown up seeing the movie first might be surprised at some of the differences between the two; no movie made in the seventies could have possibly depicted some of the wonders that Dahl has dreamed up.

This wonderful book has become a staple of childhood, and no one should deprive their child of the fun that reading it will provide.


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Summary: Eat Up This Book!
Review: this book is great. ive never gotten higher. i mean, except for all the drugs i was on when i read the book. this is the best extended drug reference that i have ever read. if u ask me, willy wonka was dropping acid everytime no one else was looking.
-sincerely, a guy who is on shrooms at 1 am on a sunday and just watched the movie.

oh and i am a 14th grade student