Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl, 1964
A chocolate factory opens its gates to five children for a single day, and its owner has invented a hundred ways to make sugar strange.
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl's books are funny in a way that doesn't soften itself: adults can be absurd or unkind, children notice, and the story takes the child's side without becoming sweet. «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory» is the place to start if you want the pure pleasure of invention, a factory where sugar turns strange and the rules keep shifting; «Matilda» is for anyone who has ever been underestimated and wanted to see cleverness win.
Feels like morality, memory and wonder.
Start with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
As a schoolboy at Repton, Dahl and his classmates were sent free boxes of new Cadbury bars to grade as taste-testers — a factory of experiments lodged in his mind.
A river you could swim in, and a man who cannot stop explaining it.
WILLY WONKA: Nothing wrong with it, my boy! Nothing! Nothing at all! It’s all chocolate! Every drop of that river is hot melted chocolate of the finest quality. The very finest quality. There’s enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well! Isn’t it terrific? And just look at my pipes! They suck up the chocolate and carry it all away to all the other rooms in the factory where it is needed! Thousands of gallons an hour, my dear children! Thousands and thousands of gallons! Books by Roald Dahl
Matilda
Roald Dahl, 1988
A tiny girl with a giant library card takes on the worst headmistress in England and wins by being cleverer than every adult around her.
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