Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, opens his gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. The famous story of Charlie Bucket and his Golden Ticket, and Willy Wonka and his amazing chocolate factory. In fact it is impossible to move for Easter eggs at the moment, and as well as opening something vaguely book shaped on Easter Sunday, I will be hoping for an egg shaped something as well.made of chocolate in case my husband does indeed just present me with an egg. The reason? Easter falls in April, and everybody should read about chocolate as well as eating buckets of the stuff. This is definitely a book of my childhood.Įven better, our Classics Book Group elected to choose this as the Children's Classic choice for April.
In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours.Coming in at #35 on the BBC Big Read list and the highest placed Roald Dahl title is the much loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal and taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most successful illustrators. He is a co-founder of and contributing author to the Itchy Coo imprint. An acknowledged expert in the field of Scots language education, he has written numerous children’s books and translated a number of titles into Scots including Roald Dahl’s The Eejits and Geordie’s Mingin Medicine, and David Walliams’ Mr Mingin and Billionaire Bairn. Matthew Fitt is a novelist and poet as well as a translator. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. Has Violet Boakregarde bitten aff mair than she can chaw? Will Mike Teeveeheid finally end up on TV? Will Chairlie go UP AND OOT in Wullie Wonka’s Muckle Gless Lift?įind oot in Matthew Fitt’s gallus new Scots translation o Roald Dahl’s classic story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. When Mr Wullie Wonka invites five bairns ben intae his warld-famous chocolate factory, some o them turn oot tae be spoilt wee bampots.įor Chairlie Baffie, the tour o Wonka’s chocolate works is the adventure o a lifetime.
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