Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1975)

I enjoyed it just as much reading it with the the grandkids as I did when I was a child. ( )

This book is a silly and fun look into Willy Wonka’s world of imagination. The characters teach morals that all students need to learn. ( )

This is the story of Charlie Bucket and four others who have won the chance to go into Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. This book is not only interesting and fun for students to read, but it also teaches good lessons about gluttony, pride, selfishness, and so on. ( )

I can't think of the words to describe how magical this book is. Magical and fantastically creepy. So I'm not even going to try. But if you have children you MUST read this book to them, or have them read it. You will not regret it. ( )

I've just reread Charlie for the first time in, well, a couple of decades and loved it just as much as when I was little: the excitement about the announcement of the golden tickets and who finds them, the anticipation when Charlie is unwrapping a chocolate bar, the joy and wonder of the factory, the absolute certainty that a Whipple-Scrumptions Fudgemallow Delight would be the most delicious chocolate bar in the world ever if only it existed...

While Dahl's story is as good as ever, this Kindle edition was a little disappointing. It reproduces Quentin Blake's fantastic illustrations, but appears to be based on an uncorrected OCR: "T" appears instead of "I" on a number of occasions, and in some places there are unnecessary hyphens from ends of lines in the print book and some sentences are split into two paragraphs where presumably they were split across a page break and other bits of odd formatting. It's careless and sloppy that it wasn't proofread and checked properly before being released in this format, especially since it's currently more expensive than the paperback from Amazon. ( )