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Charlie and Willy Wonka are back, this time in a fantastic journey to outer space in their glass elevator.

Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.

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Charlie and Willy Wonka are back, this time in a fantastic journey to outer space in their glass elevator.

Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.

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A delightfuly marvelous story bound to enchant all Willy Wonka fans.
Children's Literature
This sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory continues the adventure as Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator. They encounter a U. S. Space Hotel, receive an invitation to the White House, and save the world by battling Vermicious Knids before their descent back to the chocolate factory. Once on the ground, they experiment with Wonka-Vite (a pill that takes years off), and figure out a way to get the old folks out of bed. This reprint is lots of fun to read, and is enhanced by Quentin Blake's comical illustrations.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780142410325
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/16/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 44,132
  • Age range: 7 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 0720L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.14 (w) x 7.76 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl is, quite simply, one of the best-loved children’s book authors of all time. He died in 1990 in Oxford, England, at the age of 74.

Quentin Blake has illustrated most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books. The Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom, he teaches illustration at the Royal College of Art in London.

Biography

"I have never met a boy who so persistently writes the exact opposite of what he means," a teacher once wrote in the young Roald Dahl's report card. "He seems incapable of marshaling his thoughts on paper." From such inauspicious beginnings emerged an immensely successful author whom The Evening Standard would one day dub "one of the greatest children's writers of all time."

Dahl may have been an unenthusiastic student, but he loved adventure stories, and when he finished school he went out into the world to have some adventures of his own. He went abroad as a representative of the Shell corporation in Dar-es-Salaam, and then served in World War II as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. After the war, Dahl began his writing career in earnest, publishing two well-received collections of short stories for adults, along with one flop of a novel.

The short stories, full of tension and subtle psychological horror, didn't seem to presage a children's author. Malcolm Bradbury wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "[Dahl's] characters are usually ignoble: he knows the dog beneath the skin, or works hard to find it." Yet this talent for finding, and exposing, the nastier sides of grown-up behavior served him well in writing for children. As Dahl put it, "Writing is all propaganda, in a sense. You can get at greediness and selfishness by making them look ridiculous. The greatest attribute of a human being is kindness, and all the other qualities like bravery and perseverance are secondary to that."

In 1953, Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal; two of his early children's books, James and the Giant Peach (1961) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) grew out of the bedtime stories he made up for their children. Elaine Moss, writing in the Times, called the latter "the funniest children's book I have read in years; not just funny but shot through with a zany pathos which touches the young heart." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a colossal hit. A film version starring Gene Wilder was released in 1971 (as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), while James and the Giant Peach was made into a movie in 1996.

Dahl followed his initial successes with a string of bestsellers, including Danny, the Champion of the World, The Twits, The BFG, The Witches and Matilda. Some adults objected to the books' violence -- unpleasant characters (like James’s Aunts Sponge and Spiker) tend to get bumped off in grotesque and inventive ways -- but Dahl defended his stories as part of a tradition of gruesome fairy tales in which mean people get what they deserve. "These tales are pretty rough, but the violence is confined to a magical time and place," he said, adding that children like violent stories as long as they're "tied to fantasy and humor." By the time of his death in 1990, Dahl's mischievous wit had captivated so many readers that The Times called him "one of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation."

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When Dahl was in school, he and his schoolmates occasionally served as new-product testers for the Cadbury chocolate company. Dahl used to dream of working in a chocolate manufacturer's inventing room. He wrote in his autobiography, "I have no doubt at all that, 35 years later, when I was looking for a plot for my second book for children, I remembered those little cardboard boxes and the newly invented chocolates inside them, and I began to write a book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

Dahl's first book for children, The Gremlins (1943), was a story about the mythical creatures that sabotaged British planes. (Dahl claimed for most of his life that he had coined the term "gremlins," but it had been in use by members of the Royal Air Force for years.) Walt Disney planned to use it as the basis for a movie, but the project was scrapped, and only 5,000 copies of the book were ever printed.

    1. Date of Birth:
      September 13, 1916
    2. Place of Birth:
      Llandaff, Wales, England
    1. Date of Death:
      November 23, 1990
    2. Place of Death:
      Oxford, England

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  • Posted January 23, 2011

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    So weird

    We bought this book.

    Did you think Charlie's adventures ended when he won the chocolate factory? As it turns out Charlie's day didn't even end there. Once in the Great Glass Elevator Charlie (and all the Buckets) found themselves on a wild journey to some really strange places. Really strange. In one of Dahl's wildest stories childrens' classic hero Charlie finds himself orbiting Earth, fighting aliens, traveling to unreal places like Minusland and most off all, trying to convince his grandparents to get out of the bed they've been in for the last twenty years.
    Dahl is famous for his dark, wry view of just about everything. In The Witches he took on women, in Charlie in the Chocolate Factory he took on bratty kids, in Matilda he took on the education system. In this one he takes on really lazy adults. Surely by this point readers should know Dahl was an equal opportunity -ist (or at least played one for effect through his fiction) but he was also a fantastic storyteller, slyly infusing his tales with enough dark humor and irony to make even young readers feel like they're in on Dahl's cosmic joke.
    Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is quite nonlinear, so it threw my more literally minded autistic son, but my daughter found the wild and crazy wild enjoyable. She especially enjoyed the space bits, which were almost science fiction-y enough for her.
    As always, especially with Dahl's wilder works, it's an acquired taste, not for all readers. But avid readers will want to taste Dahl's clever, intelligent story telling which, unlike many kids books (especially those tied in with movies, TV shows or licensed characters) doesn't treat young readers like thick-headed dummies who need moral messages drilled into their heads.

    Contains: Bad science, mean old people

    Recommended for: 8-12 yrs, flexible

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 20, 2007

    A Very Good Story for Young Readers

    Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a great story which continues the story of Willie Wonka. They break through the ceiling of the chocolate factory and take an adventure. I recommend this book to everyone looking for a good story to read.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 28, 2007

    That Was The best book ever

    I think this is a fantastic book you should make it into a movie because it would be the best movie in the whole world I just wan't to read it over and over again I enjoyed it so much that I think you sould wite a book about them going to Hawaii were I live that would be so awesome people will love it.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 7, 2006

    wow

    im reading it because its for a book report and i juss grabbed the first book i saw. people did tell me that this book was great but so far....IM NOT LIKIN IT......AT ALL. all this about knids and space the president....what kind of mess is that. Roald dahl no disrespect u r a great writer but this book is not a favorite of mine

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 6, 2000

    Great a Must

    this is agreat fun sequal

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2000

    This is the best book in the world.

    This book I bought Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is because I am a Roald DAhl fan. The book starts where the first book left off(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). I recommend this outstanding book to all.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 13, 2006

    MAKE THIS INTO A MOVIE!!!

    great book! more like 6 stars! kept me on the edge of my seat! the rocketing into orbit around the earth, the space hotel, the commuter capsule getting attacked by knids,,,this MUST be made into a movie, otherwise the collection of 'wonka' movies/books will be incomplete.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 30, 2005

    Willy Wonka in Space

    I really didn't know if I would enjoy this book as much as the first since the first half of the book is spent in outer space and not at the Chocolate factory. But once they do return to the factory, it picks up again. I still recommend this book, but the original is far superior. This shouldn't be turned into a movie.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2005

    must read

    this was a great novel by ronled daul. i think this is better then the first.i relly liked it. this would have to be a must read.roneld daul has outdone himself.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 9, 2005

    My review....

    I love Ruald Daul's books I love reading them at night too put my self asleep even druing class i'll try to read a sentence or too

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 10, 2005

    Absolutley breathtaking

    this should be up there, with such other great books like 'the bible' and the 'new york times', Charlie took my breathe away, as i f i was being punched in the gut. his feindish adventures and different storys captavates ones imagination. truely a story that makes even the strongest man fall to his knees and cry, but crying in a good way, once again Roald hits a grand slam in his hall of fame worthy litrature career. good show roald...good show

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 3, 2004

    Great Book!!!

    gHold it!h cried Shuckworth. gOh, my lord, here they all come now! Theyfre coming after us! Theyfre swarming out of the Space Hotel! Theyfre coming out in swarms! Youfll have to excuse me a moment, Mr. President. No time to talk right now!h This story is about a young boy named Charlie, who has 4 grandparents, 2 parents and living in a huge chocolate factory with an old, but hyper man who invented the great, gWilly Wonkafs Chocolate Factoryh!!! This fantastic chocolate factory includes one awesome elevator that can take you anywhere, and has everything!! Charlie is very nice and kind, but is he kind enough to save 150 space workers from the man-eating Knids? Or even risk his life to save his 'minus-aged' grandma back up to her age again? I loved this book except for the fact that in some parts, people were overreacting, and they kept on switching the subject. Like all of Charliefs grandparents, they kept on saying crazy things every time, over and over. It was confusing because first, they faced space hotel and the Knids, then all of the sudden, Charliefs grandma became 'minus years old.' Although I liked the adventure part, I still liked gCharliefs Chocolate Factoryh better. So if I were to rate this book from 1~10, 10 being the best, and 1 being the worst, I would give this book 8 out of 10. Anzu,6th grade

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2004

    Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

    This book tells a great eventure. Charlie and Mr.Wonka traval throw space and land in a space hotel. Lots of freaky things go on. When they get back Mr.Wonka invents the wonka-vite that makes people 20 years yonger.I whould read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 28, 2004

    3rd grader SICK of that book!!!!!!!!!

    The Glass Elevator was not a good book. It did not have any adventure and it kept on switching subjects. I really enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate factory though.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 18, 2004

    Ignore what reviewer #1 says......It's a cute book!

    Very cute book. I love Roald Dahl's style of writing. Much adventure in this book. Not really movie matieral, though.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 15, 2004

    There are no limits to Roald Dahl's imagination, that's for sure!!!

    This sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an extention to the thrill and excitement of Dahl's first book. He carries the origional storyline even farther and into space!!! Definatley read this after the Chocolate Factory!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2003

    So great!!

    You will love this book so, so, so, so, so, so, so, much! I loved it. It was sort of funnny! You wiil want to read this book!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 16, 2003

    good!

    this was so good! i loved it. wasnt as good as the chocolate factory i'll admit but i still loved it!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 23, 2001

    okay....

    I'm sorry..but this book was a bit too wacky for me, i never finished it. what i did read was pretty good. AM i the only 1 who thinks Mr. Woonka is bonkers????

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 21, 2001

    Zach's view of the great glass elevator

    I loved this book because it tells you about what is in space in an imaginary sense. I would actually like to meet the book's character, Willie Wonka. Great Book. I think all people would like this book. My two sister's read it and love it as well.

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