The incredible adventures of Charlie Bucket, first in Mr. Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, and later in the Great Glass Elevator, have
delighted children all over the world from the moment they were published. Already Roald Dahl's two books have achieved the stature of classics.

Here Charlie's complete adventures are contained within a single volume illustrated by Michael Foreman. From the moment that the gates of the mysterious and delectable chocolate factory to admit Charlie and four other fortunate (if misguided) children, the exuberant
and bizarre world of Mr. Willy Wonka takes over. It is a world of everlasting gobstoppers and chocolate rivers, of square sweets that look round and tiny Oompa-Loompas who talk in rhyme. Be prepared for appalling and hilarious things to to some of the visitors in Mr. Wonka's chocolate factory, before Charlie discovers that he himself is to inherit the factory itself.

But before he can take up residence, Mr. Wonka has bundled him, together with his parents and his bedridden grandparents, into
the miraculous Great Glass Elevator and a new, frenzied and fantastic adventure commences — this time in space, rescuing astronauts, doing battle with the Vermicious Knids, and eventually touching down on the lawns of the White House to meet the American President.

As you will very quickly discover, Mr. Willy Wonka is just about the most astonishing, capricious, fabulous, bizarre and wonderful character in the whole range of children's fiction.
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