Roald Dahl/Charlie Boxed Set (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)

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Deliciously madcap mayhem and out-of-this-world fantasy--this is what you'll find within the casing of this boxed set of two of Roald Dahl's most brilliant creations: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

For decades, delighted readers of all ages have explored Willy Wonka's fabulous chocolate factory, met the Oompa Loompas, and sampled the chocolate river along with Augustus Gloop. And later, they have zoomed off into the stratosphere in the most remarkable elevator ever created. Now, a new generation of readers barely needs to pause between the first and the second of Roald Dahl's masterful volumes. Hardcover editions of each title, illustrated of course by the incomparable Quentin Blake, are tucked in a handy cardboard sleeve, ready for the next set of hungry eyes. Sadly, the convenience of the set is counterbalanced by the poor quality of the paper used for the books. Classics like these deserve thick, creamy, opaque pages; not the flimsy, rough, semitransparent sheets used here. (Ages 7 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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Would be better if I hadn't seen the movie first!.......2007-06-05

I bought this book the other day at a outlet store for only two dollars. I'm alreday on chapter 17. I like the book, and the way the author writes, but it would be MUCH better if I hadn't seen the movie first.
The old, old movie from the 70's is very different form the book. the NEW movie (which I thought was really good!) is a LOT like the book.
I agree with a few revwiers that the illustrations aren't the best. they're good, and funny, and cute...but they need to sculpt teh charcters a little more.
Besides all that, this is a pretty good book.

charile and the choclate factory.......2007-05-23

the plot took place on this huge place were they make the wonka bar.And the mr.wonka like to invent thing made out of choclate and oher stuff.Mr.wonka let five people to his factory so he signs on the light post.then on the morning people read the paper it said five people are alowed to his factory and who ever finds five golden tickets are going to his factory.Then people are finding the golden ticket then charlie wanted to go but his family are poor.On chalies bithday hr recived a ghoclate bar from his mom and dad.Then his gandpa was exicted that he might find it.but he didn't find it.one day he was walking around charlie found something green charlie said it looks like a bill so piked it up and it was a one dollar bill.So he went to the store and bought the last choclate bar in the store and chaile opened the bar and saw the golden bar.He ran to his house and said i found the golden ticket!his grandpa was excited that he found the golden ticket he was jumping all around.And charlie said that you are not going.Then the next day he thought of it so he said he could go.then it was time.they were walking all around then the chubby kid fell down the choclate river.they were helping he to get out the choclate river the big tube sucked him up.then they left to another room they were trying out candy so the mean girl got some gum and she turn fat and blue.After that went to a room that could turn things big or small.they put a bar put it in the middle they turn it big.they turn the little vilonte boy so small they tried to make him in the wright size but they couln't one by one are living .the only ones that are left is the little girl and charlie.next they went to see the squirles and the little gilr wanted one but sge couldent get one and the dad said can i buy one for my daughter and wonka said no thelittle girl was holdind one it was runing around she chase it she fell down.and the dad went to get her and he fell down to.charlie was the last one.so wonka took them home with him.

Love the story but strongly dislike the illustrations.......2007-04-13

Let me just start off by saying that I love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After seeing the movie version with Gene Wilder, I had to read the book, so I rented the ORGINIAL edition from my library and fell in love with it. Then I rented the sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and enjoyed it just as much.
My only complaint with this edition is the illustrations by Quentin Blake. Let me just be bluntly honest: they are horrible! They look as if a five year old drew them! I don't like the way any of the characters look, especially Willy Wonka. In Blake's illustrations they all look just poor, mediocre, stupid and dopey. They don't add to the book or enhance your visualization of the characters but detract from it. I don't expect Alan Lee-like drawings, just something a bit more better drawn and closer to the characters in the book.
The critic on Amazon calls the illustrator "the incomparable Blake." I'd like to choke when I read that. Incomparable? Yeah right. Just compare this one with the ORIGINAL illustrations by Joseph Schindelman and you'll see that Blake is definitely a big step down in quality. Joseph Schindelman, to me, really captured the goodness and innonence of Charlie and the delightfulness and lovablness of Willy Wonka in his illustrations, and more importantly, they match Roald Dahl's descriptions well. They look more like people and more like you imagined them to look like. When I think of Willy Wonka and Charlie, my mind goes back to the illustrations of Joseph Schindelman; there just better done and more like characters. They are much more charming than the stick figure we have with long nose and bug eyes in Blake's Wonka.
And this guy is a teacher? It looks to me like he needs to be taught a few art lessons. I bought this edition only because I love the story so much and had to have a copy, but now I'm really hoping to get the original edition with Joseph Schindelman as the illustrator.
Last word: somebody needs to fire this guy Blake. He's ruining Road Dahl's books!

Very Good.......2007-01-04

The collectors edition was nice to handle and added to the enjoyment of these classic books.

An awesome book -- a review by Eli (7 years old).......2006-07-19

This is a great, interesting, funny book. I liked both stories but especially Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I like how the author describes the scenes in the book in many details and you can actually imagine how the factory looks like. The illustrations are funny and good.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Puffin Novels)

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Disappointing, slow and racist...
This book is awesome!
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
odd, funny, and nonsensical
There are three reasons why THIS Dahl novel was not made into a film---George, Georgina, and Josephine

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Puffin Novels)
Roald Dahl
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ASIN: 0141301120

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Picking right up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory left off, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we've all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie's family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius. (Ages 9 to 12)

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Charlie and Willy Wonka are back, this time in a fantastic journey to outer space in their giant glass elevator. Roald Dahl is one of the most beloved storytellers of all time, and his books have been children's favorites for generations. Puffin is proud to offer a strong new look for nine of our classic Roald Dahl titles. The distinctive cover treatment, with new art by Quentin Blake, will make these books easily recognizable. In addition, Quentin Blake's funny, quirky illustrations now appear in all of the books. So turn the page and you'll be sure to have a Dahl-ectable summer!

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Disappointing, slow and racist..........2007-04-07

After reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to my 5 and 7 year olds, I got down my childhood copy of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. It made for a terrible read aloud! The plot was slow, the dialogue boring and I had to edit out some racist parts about China and the Chinese. We all decided to abandon the read aloud after Chapter 5. Very disappointing! I was actually surprised to still find the book in print!

This book is awesome!.......2007-01-14

Actually, in comparison with the first book (Charlie and the chocolate factory) this book is definitely not as good. I did however read it in 2 days because I wanted it to be done in a matter of time for school, and, I couldn't put it down. This book does not have as much adventure because it's in space and then taking wonka vites and Vite Wonkas and so on and so forth. This book did keep your attention and of course, was written by roald dahl which makes it superior.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.......2006-10-13

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is an iteresting book. It is a fiction story and a little realistic. It is about a boy called Charlie that goes on a Great Glass Elevator with all his family and Mr. Wonka. They were last seen traveling around his hometown. They were on their way to the point were they were supposed to go down again but they couldnt his the button at the corretct moment so they went to space. A series of events passed until they realized that they could use their booster rockets to get back to the factory. So they went back to the factory where they were welcomed by the Ompaa Loompas. Then Mr. Wonka remembered of his Wonka-Vite or a pill that made you younger by 20 years. One of the old ones were less than 80 so they drank 4 without thinking on the efect and dissapeared. She went to the Minus World. Mr. Wonka and Charlie went to the Minus World to look for her. They found her and brought her back to the normal world where she was 100% red blood human. But she was to old. So she ate more pills and went to her normal age. At the end a presidential helicopter was on the door of the Chocolate Factory with a card for Mr. Wonka. They were invited to the White House. Every one was happy and they all lived happilly ever after. For more details read the book!!!!!

odd, funny, and nonsensical.......2006-10-03

This was a really odd book. By the end of the first book, Charlie, his grandparents, his parents, and Mr Wonka are all in a glass elevator, shooting into the sky. From here, they go to outer space where a space hotel is opening and some American astronauts find them and assume they are enemy aliens. They, along with the infantile and incredibly stupid president of the United States contemplate blowing up the glass elevator and all inside to protect the soon-to-be occupied space hotel. With Wonka's gadgets, they manage to board the hotel, find real and very dangerous aliens, escape, and save the foolish Americans from being gobbled up...for the most part. When they return to the factory, Wonka offers a volatile youth potion to his grandparents, but only the selfish Josephina gets any...and all of it. She disappears as she becomes uninvented, Charlie and Wonka find her in the mysterious place where negatives live, and that's pretty much it. A series of non-sequitors, but funny nonetheless.

There are three reasons why THIS Dahl novel was not made into a film---George, Georgina, and Josephine.......2006-09-19

After reading the delightful Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this sequel was an absolute let-down. The novel begins with the great Glass Elevator breaking through the ceiling of Charlie's (formerly Wonka's) chocolate factory and rocketing into orbit around the Earth. While beyond the reaches of Earth's atmosphere, our heroes---Charlie, Grandpa Joe, and Mr. Wonka---must deal with the malleable and voracious Vermicious Knids (pronounced "K'Nids"), aliens which resemble unfrighteningly hostile figs or turds with eyes. Far worse than these beasties, though, are the insufferable old folks whose twenty-year stint in their shared bed has made them less than useless. Charlie, Joe, and Wonka, with no help from Charlie's folks or other grandparents, save themselves and a US spacecraft from the clutches of the Knids and return to the Chocolate Factory, where the old timers stupidly overdose on youth pills, returning them to infancy or beyond. Charlie and Wonka race around trying to help these ancient parasites, who respond to this assistance with the thanklessness the reader comes to expect from these oldsters. At the end of the novel, the geriatric brigade finally leaves the bed when they have a chance to meet the President.

In short, these three are the most tedious, spiteful, unredeemable characters I've come across in children's literature and I hoped that they would be eaten by the Knids or the Gnoolies or even the Oompa-Loompas as I read this book. As it is, they (unlike the awful kids in the Chocolate Factory) learn no lessons and persist in their curmudgeonly parasitism from the first page to the last. Their presence throughout the novel rendered it a chore, rather than a joy, to read.

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Puffin Modern Classics)
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ASIN: 0142404128

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Now that Charlie has won the chocolate factory, what's next? Even wilder adventures, that's what! Join him, Grandpa Joe, and, of course, Willy Wonka for the amazing, intergalactic sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

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A Masterpiece

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator CD
Roald Dahl
Manufacturer: HarperChildrensAudio
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 0060597844
Release Date: 2004-07-06

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Now that he's won the chocolate factory,what's next for Charlie?

Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket is back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world's first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic joyride.

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A Masterpiece.......2005-07-27

I recommend this audio CD 110%, for people of all ages. There is none better than Eric Idle, and he does supremely with this particular item. His voice, his narration, and his actions through words really bring Roald Dahl's book to life. It is highly enjoyable, as well as hilarious.

Charlie and the great glass elevator: The further adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, chocolate-maker extraordinary (A Bantam skylark book)

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Charlie and the great glass elevator: The further adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, chocolate-maker extraordinary (A Bantam skylark book)
Roald Dahl
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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ASIN: 0553150316

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

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Wonderful Adventures of an Obedient Child

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 037582930X

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Two books together in one! The complete adventures of Charlie.

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Wonderful Adventures of an Obedient Child.......2006-02-04

Mr. Dahl recognized exactly how to keep children amused. There are thirty chapters in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"; each chapter is short and ends with a suspenseful line or paragraph. There are twenty chapters in "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"; although the chapters are long but the ending of each chapter is still able to evoke a child's curiosity thus suggesting to them to continue reading. Although "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is more well-known especially with two movies out (so far) based on the story (of course the storybook is much better although the efforts of adapting the story onto screen for both versions were pretty amazing), I prefer "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" because it is sillier; the adults are portrayed to act eccentrically juvenile. The number of made-up words are many more and the jokes surrounding the words are out-loud laughable. Also, the relayed messages or the lessons learned have deeper and truer meanings. Although the titles for both seem to indicate that Charlie is the main character, in actual fact, the major role is played by Mr. Wonka. But, since these stories were written for children as the key audience, the adventure of another child would grasp the interest of a kid better. Mr. Dahl was a genius! If "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a children's fantasy, "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" is more or less a children's science fiction, and both are delightful.

Charlie & The Great Glass Elevator, The Further Adventures of Charlie Bucket & Willy Wonka Chocolate-Maker Extraordinary

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Charlie & The Great Glass Elevator, The Further Adventures of Charlie Bucket & Willy Wonka Chocolate-Maker Extraordinary
Roald, Illustrated by Schindelman, Joseph Dahl
Manufacturer: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LUWA0C

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Great listen!

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Roald Dahl
Manufacturer: HarperChildrensAudio
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0060536292
Release Date: 2004-07-06

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Great listen!.......2004-08-01

Continuing where Charlie and the Chocolate factory left off, this book takes you through Charlie and his family's further adventures with Willie Wonka. See how Charlie and Willie Wonka take the Great Glass elevator where no man has gone before (well, almost). See how they even give the U.S. space program a helping hand as they help save some unwitting astronauts and the new Space Hotel U.S.A. staff from certain death from a hitherto unknown menace from space. After this, can Charlie and Mr. Wonka rescue Grandma Georgina from Minusland without getting themselves subtracted in the process? Suspend your disbelief, sit back, relax and find out how it all comes together--or not.

Eric Idle's narration is great. Thanks to him and Harper for recording this book!

Charlie y el Gran Ascensor de cristal (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)

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Charlie y el Gran Ascensor de cristal (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)
Roald Dahl
Manufacturer: Alfaguara Infantil
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Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) (Alfaguara)

ASIN: 8420465739
Release Date: 2005-06-30

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The adventure continues as Charlie, now the owner of the chocolate factory, tours his plant. He s transported to his new property via a glass elevator and encounters new dangers and surprises.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Puffin Story Books)

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Puffin Story Books)
Roald Dahl
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More coffee table than dinner table

family bonding

Perfect.

A Winner for Inspiration!

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A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles

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ASIN: 157324855X

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Now in paperback, A Grateful Heart is a tool to help readers reclaim and enrich the tradition of pausing before the evening meal to give thanks. Drawing from a range of religious and cultural practices, these 365 blessings celebrate friendship, love, peace, reconciliation, the body, nature, joy, and appreciation of the moment. This illustrated feast for the mind includes quotations from Martin Luther King Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, Rumi, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Denise Levertov, the Bible, and the Tao Te Ching.

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More coffee table than dinner table.......2007-08-23

This is a nice collection of poems, blessings and short devotionals and they are categorized. I was looking for a book with more traditional blessings that appeal to a house with three teenagers and these selections are just a little too "devotional" and not quite what I was expecting.

family bonding.......2007-01-09

The book provides an excellent way to start conversations with your family about being grateful. We've also found it interesting to discuss the various authors. Love the fact that not all the quotes are religous based.

Perfect........2006-05-30

This was exactly what I was looking for...
I am a devout agnostic, part-time Unitarian, with a young son in whom I wish to instill a sense of spirituality, even religiosity. One way I wanted try to do this was by starting a tradition of prayer at meal-times with him. Having no real experience in this activity, I ordered this book...

Organized by season, the prayers evoke an appropriate sense of time and place. The authors are widely varied, and all of the writings utilize wonderful imagery. I believe almost every prayer can be appreciated by people of all faiths, and even atheists who feel a need to express appreciation for what they have before them.

My 3-year-old son has memorized his favorite evening springtime prayer, which goes like this:

Come out! Come out!
From bogs, old frogs
Command the dark.
And look...the stars.

(not sure about the punctuation and I don't remember the author - I'm writing from memory...but you get the idea).

There are of course more traditional prayers than that. And I should mention that even though the title refers to blessings for the evening meal, there are several for morning-time as well, greeting the new day.

A Winner for Inspiration!.......2003-11-22

For well over 5 years I have been blessed by well-know and well-documented M. J. Ryan's collections of prayers and quotations of deep wisdom! Many of these have been left out of collections, such as, St. Ignatius' Prayer, ee cummings' "i thank you,God" Walter Rauschenbusch's deeper prayers, Daphne Rose Kingma's many faces, Thomas Merton, May Sarton, W B Yeats, etc. Only recently I searched and found 12 Native American Indian Prayers.

"So when Life Fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame."
(Native American Prayer"

One of the most succintly worded themes of the book is by Simon Greenberg: "One does not need to fast for days, meditate for hours at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly envelops us." Represented are the unique riches from Seven Biblical quotes, The Buddha, Einstein, and Schweitzer!

Where else could one find such variety of Faith, mood, and/or source of healing alogside life-changing examples of Prayer, and Wisdom? They seem to be profoundly combined and edited! From a collector of Jewels of Poetry, Prayers, and Wisdom! ...Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood

Misled.......2003-02-10

We have been looking for food blessings to extend our repertoire and keep us mindful of the food we are given at the evening meal. The sub-title of this book, "Daily Blessing for the Evening Meal," led us to believe we had found exactly what we needed. However, I challenge anyone to find more than three or four blessings in this little volume that would properly and sweetly bless the food we were about to eat. Some are absolutely inappropriate and unappetizing; others, so far afield we wondered what they were doing in this book. We were very disappointed.

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