Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I got Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from the local library. They also had James and the Giant Peach, but I settled on Charlie because I remember the 1971 movie.
How robbed I was to only have ever had the movie version in my imagination. My kids have not seen that movie, nor the Tim Burton one. They were new to the story and only know about Willy Wonka candies, like Nerds.
They loved the story. The morality of the tale makes some sense, but the way the descriptions lead one to imagine the insides of the factory is fantastic.
My kids especially liked the Oompa-Loompas and the poems they sang. The book differs in some interesting ways from the movie versions. I sure am glad that I read it.