Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
About this book
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin 11 months later.
In the 2012 survey published by SLJ, a monthly with primarily US audience, Charlie was the second of four books by Dahl among their Top 100 Chapter Books, one more than any other writer. Time magazine in the US included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.
Subjects
- accelerated reader
- avarice
- behavior
- behavior -- fiction
- behavior, fiction
- candy
- candy industry
- charlie bucket (fictitious character)
- children's fiction
- childrens media tie-in books
- children's middle grade action & adventure books
- children's picture books
- children's plays
- chocolat
- chocolate
- chocolate factories
- chocolate industry
- conducta
- conduct of life
- cuentos humorísticos
- eccentrics and eccentricities
- factories
- fantasy
- fantasy fiction
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- fiction, fantasy, general
- grandparent and child
- human behavior
- humorous fiction
- humorous stories
- humourous stories
- industrie
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile literature
- juvenile works
- literatura angielska dla młodzieży
- literatura juvenil
- literature and fiction, juvenile
- morale pratique
- open library staff picks
- plays
- récits humoristiques
- romans
- romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- spanish language materials
- tłumaczenia polskie
- willy wonka (fictitious character)
- wonka bars
- young adult fiction