Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Colour Edition)

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First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations throughout; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in colours, metallic endpapers, ribbon markers, a near fine copy in publisher's printed board slip-case. From the bestselling author of The BFG and Matilda comes the story of Charlie Bucket, Willy Wonka, and his infamous chocolate factory. The spine is lined with linen and acid-free paper, and the boards of the cover are acid-free laminated millboard which have been sanded to create a cushioned effect. In addition to spawning a sequel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has frequently been adapted for other media, including games, radio, the screen, and stage, most often as plays and musicals for children - often titled Willy Wonka or Willy Wonka, Jr.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Colour Edition) : Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Colour Edition) : Dahl

The brief note before the story described the story as having been left out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory due to an already brimming number of misbehaving children characters in the tale. His Grandpa Joe often tells him stories about Wonka and his mysterious chocolate factory, how it had been shuttered for years, and how it inexplicably re-opened and resumed candy production without any evidence of employees. This is met with predictable disbelief from Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, and Terence Roper, who proceed to eat at least 100 warming candies each, resulting in profuse perspiration. At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory—inspiring Dahl's idea for the recipe-thieving spies (such as Wonka's rival Slugworth) depicted in the book.The three boys and their families discontinue the tour after they are taken to cool off "in the large refrigerator for a few hours. Roald Dahl teams up with Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Taika Waititi to present “James And The Giant Peach, With Taika And Friends”! The wagons take them directly to the Pounding And Cutting Room, where the fudge is reformed and sliced into small squares for retail sale. Although the book has always been popular and considered a children's classic by many literary critics, a number of prominent individuals have spoken unfavourably of the novel over the years. Gorgeous set of six splendiferous stamps from the wonderful Quentin Blake, illustrating Mr Dahl's marvellous books.

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Dominic Cheetham observers that numerous publishers turned down Dahl's book and even Knopf - the original, American publisher - agreed both that the book was in bad taste and books should not be aimed at both children and adults, as was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. His skin was almost pure black, and the top of his fuzzy head came just above the height of Mr Wonka's knee.Light ;lifting of laminate at spine folds, small split to top corner at spine, internally clean pages, tight binding, very neat name to inner front board.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. By Roald Dahl. Illustrated

First published in 1964, the dark humor and cheerful gruesomeness of Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryimmediately endeared the book to children, making it an instant bestseller. In the first published edition, the Oompa-Loompas were described as African pygmies, and were drawn this way in the original printed edition. One of the most beloved children’s stories of the 20th century, Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald Dahl is a masterpiece of pure imagination. First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations throughout; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in colours, metallic endpapers, ribbon markers. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died, children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.

For the sake of time and sales, his editor forced him to take out several murdered children, especially the British ones, sticking with two Americans, an aristocrat, and a German. Charlie Bucket lives in poverty with his parents and four grandparents in a dilapidated, tiny house. This chapter includes a humorless, smug girl (Miranda Piker) and her equally humorless father (a schoolmaster) who disappear into the Spotty Powder room - where a candy is made that makes red, pox-like spots appear on the children's faces and necks making it look like chicken-pox/measles, so they won't have to go to school. Two of the largest competing chocolate companies, Cadbury and Rowntree, would send spies posing as employees to discover the other?