Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Summary
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A classic children’s novel about poverty and wealth, humility, kindness and greed. Charlie is an eleven-year-old boy who loves chocolate and lives with his parents and grandparents in a little hut close to a big city. They do not have a lot of money, but Charlie and his family live a happy life until Charlie’s father loses his job. A change of luck is about to come when one day he finds a golden ticket in his favourite chocolate bar, allowing him to visit the fantastic candy factory of Willy Wonka. What he does not know is that he enters a contest that will change his life forever. Do good things come in small packages?
Critical edition
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Penguin Classics, 2014. 144 pp., ISBN 9780141394589