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Summary: Lots of Chocolates...
Review: Raold Dahl is a true star of Children's Literature.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a singular delight, crammed with mad fantasy, childhood justice and revenge, and as much candy as you can eat. Willy Wonka opens the gate of his Chocolate Factory to the five 'Lucky Winners' who finds the golden ticket wrapped in a Wonka Chocolate. Charlie is poor and gets only one Chocolate bar a year! One day he finds a dollar bill in the snow and buys himself a chocolate bar. Luck favours him as this contains the fifth golden ticket. The fantasy tour of Charlie begins with the other four winners - Mike Teaves who lives for TV, Veruca Salt, a brat who lives with bratty parents, Violet Beaguragarde, a girl who love gum and Augustus Gloop who would just eat anything! Dahl portrays incidents with resourcefulness and humour. Violet blows up into a blueberry from sneaking forbidden chewing gum and Agustus Gloops is carried away on the river of chocolate he would not resist. They have great Adventures and in the end, Wonka gives a big 'Surprise' to Charlie. This is an all time Dahl Classic for all Ages.
'Choice Pick' - Especially for 8-12 years:-)
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Summary: The Best Children's Book of All Time
Review: Along with his other classic, "James and the Giant Peach", Roald Dalh's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" stands at the top of the heap when it comes to children's books. This is a pure classic of imagination, storytelling and magic. Far superior to the film (where Willy Wonka becomes the title character), the book tells the story from Charlie Bucket's point of view. Charlie, who lives with his four ancient grandparents and his mother in a one-room house, is the kind of child who can only dream about his future, since his family has barely enough money to survive. When the Wonka chocolatier announces that five golden tickets to visit the aged factory have been carefully tucked inside chocolate bars the world over, Charlie's dreams are suddenly wide open. He stumbles on some money in the street, purchases a chocolate bar and is thrust into the limelight beccoming one of the five lucky vistors. The rest of the tale is one of scrumptous folly and nerve-wracking sentiment, highlighted by magical workers (the one and only Oompa Loompas), the etheral Willy Wonka, a host of loony characters - both adults and kids - and a thrill ride in a factory where time stands still and also rocks forwards, backwards, sideways and then some! It's a classic tale of the triumph of good over evil, generosity over greed and family over fair-weathered friends. Sure to be enjoyed by children of all ages, adults included, this is the best children's book ever written - and deserves prominent place in every child's library.
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Summary: Truly enjoyable
Review: Reading Roald Dahl aloud with your children gives you time with excitement. Dahls books, loved by some, hated by some, are truly amazing. You never know what will happend, though you can be truly safe, nothing too bad will happend to you as long as you behave. Chalie is a little boy living in deep poverty with his parents and his four grandparents. A tuff world for a little boy, and no romantification by Dahl, but still you almost want that you were little Chalie. His life, though filled with poverty and hunger is also filled with love. He is surrounded by love by the six grown ups in his life. When the chocolate king Willy Wonka is going to give away 5 golden tickets which will give you access to his adventurous factory, Charlie knows that there is no chance that he will win a ticket. Or may be there is a chance? Charlie's birthday is just around the corner, and every year Charlies parents and grandparents collect all their leftover money to buy little Charlie one tiny piece of chocolat. And of course, this plate, just as any other plate can be one of the five with golden a golden ticket. As the story goes on we meet the four first winners of the golden tickets, all children like little Charlie, but of course none of them anything like Charlie. Dahl let us meet four nasty children, though described with great humour. Of course Charlie gets a golden ticket in the end, if not, there would be no book about Charlie and the chocolate factory. And he and his "old as Methusa"-grandfather Joe are invited to the factory with the four other kids and their parents. Now we are taken into a world so filled with fantasy it is like a wonderful dream for every child. Roald Dahls writing is perfect for any child between 5 and 105. You are never too old to enjoy his books. Britt Arnhild Lindland
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Summary: It was very interesting!!!!!!!!!
Review: I read the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' through recommendation of my good friend...who though young, is somewhat of an intellectual, and inspired me to read this book. Charlie's family is a poor family, with seven members in it.
Then, A few days later after Charlie's tenth birthday, Charlie is invited to go to the Chocolate Factory, with four other children. He meets the wonderful Mr Willy Wonka there, whose job is to make marvellous, great-tasting, magical Chocolate. In Mr Wonka's Factory, he sees tons of things he had never seen before, for example, a great-tasting Chocolate lake with a pink-sugar covered boat. Then, in the end, Charlie finds himself the future owner and the manager of the Chocolate factory. This book is wonderful. It is the perfect book if you're not hungry! It is also a good book for encouraging creative, intellectuall and innovative thought.
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Summary: Weak bergining but very good later on.
Review: The book was a bit boaring at the bergining but when people started geting the tickits I was getting excited.
I did not understand some things but the the book excellent.
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Summary: Not suitable for younger girls
Review: It is most unfortunate that the only girl role models are such horrid brats! My 4 year old daughter kept asking about and referring back to Veruca Salt and Violet Beauregarde. But can one say anything positive about those ill-fated characters? At this critical time in her development, when she's looking to women and girls (real and in literature) as role models, the only girls in sight are punished and humiliated for their aggressiveness. I don't begrudge Charlie and his spiritual journey with Grandpa Joe, or his final reward. But there's nothing in the book of redeeming value for girls to identify with, unless one counts long-winded railing against spoilt kids with very bad habits? The underlying message of this book is that girls have no part in larger adventures and rewards, that men and boys and male Oompa Loompas run the show. Mothers are either shrill, hysterical harpies or passive, feckless shadows.
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Summary: Not very good
Review: I got this book for the kids,but all they did was read
about 1-2 pages,then kicked it aside in favor of "Harry
Potter".I tried to read the book,but I could'nt make
myself stay focused on this dull,lackluster book.I ended
up using it as fuel for the grill.At least this book is good for
something.....
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Summary: Written by an 8th grader at BLMS
Review: The book Charlie and the chocolate factory is about o poor family that lives in a one-story hut. The main characters are Charlie, Grandpa Joe, and Charlie's family. One day at school Charlie hears people talking about the five golden tickets. The five golden tickets are in five chocolate bars; if u get the ticket you get a tour of the Chocolate factory and a life supply of chocolate. The first four tickets are found. A couple of days after the fourth ticket is found it was Charles birthday and he gets a chocolate bar for his birthday every year. He opened the chocolate bar and there was no golden ticket. Some one starts a rumor about finding the fifth ticket but the rumor was not true. The day before the tour of the chocolate factory happened Charlie was walking home from school and he found some money on the ground and he picked it up and bought a chocolate bar with it and the fifth ticket was in the bar he bought.
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Summary: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Book Review for Mr.Seymour
Review: If you haven't read this book yet...JUST READ IT!!! Roald Dahl's just brilliant! His got such a wild imagination! He makes up these crazy stories that just keeps you reading on and on and you just might wonder if all this had actually happened to him or how can he think of such amazing things! This is the first time I've ever read a book with a non-stop supply of short and unpredictable little storeis connected that keeps you curious and interested. In other books you know there's always a climax at some point, where there's the most exciting and "twisty" part of the whole book, but you'd probably can't find the climax in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It seems like the climax is throughout the whole book! Fine...I'm exagerating a little, but you'll pretty much agree with me after read it anyway. (Writing this review makes me want to put exclamation marks after every sentence :) hHEhe) Well anyway, let me tell you some of my favorite parts. The parts where no one else can think of other then Roald Dahl. I love the part with the thousands-and-thousands-of-botton-covered-glass-elevator-that-moves-in-all-directions. They're all labeled! Isn't that cute! You just press any one of them and it'll get you to that place in no time at all. I also liked reading about all the different types of candies that was made in in Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Believe it or not? Many of those candy's have actually come up in every kids' mind before, like forever-lasting-taste-chewing gums, candies that can take over breakfast, lunch and dinner, or even a castle that's made all out of chocolate! And there's MUCH MUCH MORE! Read some other reviews and you'll see that even though this book sounds quite childish but there are still readers and Roald Dalh lovers ranging from all ages. It's a relaxing boook. People should take a break sometimes from reading hard books. You can read this for a bed time story, filling your brain up with fantasies and after you fall asleep, you'll find yourself somewhere in a beautiful land in dream world...HhAHah...just adding some more to my review. Anyway, I won't waste anymore of your precious time. GO READ CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY RIGHT NOW!!!
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Summary: Read the best book in the nation
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is a fantasy that will keep you glued to this sweet fantasy until the end. An old but famous factory will be opened for five lucky people. Weeks have gone by until starving little Charlie sees a gold flash in the the last candybar he can afford. Charlie took only a minute until he found he maintained the 5th and last golden ticket. Charlie rushes home to tell his poor family the great news,and how lucky they were, for it was the last possible day to receive this gold ticket.Soon it was February 1 and Charlie was lined up with a plump boy, a chewing gum girl, a greedy, and a television boy. What adventures would Charlie meet and will Charlie be the one to win the factory? You can find out if you read this book.I would recommend this book if you like sweet adventures. This book is a great fantasy because funny and bizzare things happen to those who deserve it.
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