"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" are there together in this single bumper volume. There is a great new cover illustration from Quentin Blake and new author biography.
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Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.
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Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to"a wonderful faraway place. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.The BFG is dedicated to the memory of Roald Dahls eldest daughter, Olivia, who died from measles when she was seven - the same age at which his sister had died (fron appendicitis) over forty years before. Quentin Blake, the first Children's Laureate of the United Kingdom, has illustrated most of Roald Dahl's children's books.
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Complete Adventures of Charlie and Willy,
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It was a good book. Like all of Roald Dahl books of course! After having read Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this is a must read for fans!
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THE COMPLETE ADEVENTURES OF CHARLIE,
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LOVE IT!!! MY SON READ THIS BOOK OVER & OVER AGAIN.
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These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chocolate river, space hotel, square sweets, old grandparents, glass lift Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grandpa Joe, Grandma Georgina, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George, Mike Teavee, Golden Ticket, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, White House, Great Glass Elevator, Miss Tibbs, Veruca Salt, Augustus Gloop, Transport Capsule, Violet Beauregarde, Chief of the Army, Chocolate Room, Testing Room, Vermicious Knids, Chief Interpreter, Chief Spy, Inventing Room, Ground Control, President of the United States, Miss Vice-President New!
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These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chocolate river, space hotel, square sweets, old grandparents, glass lift Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grandpa Joe, Grandma Georgina, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George, Mike Teavee, Golden Ticket, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, White House, Great Glass Elevator, Miss Tibbs, Veruca Salt, Augustus Gloop, Transport Capsule, Violet Beauregarde, Chief of the Army, Chocolate Room, Testing Room, Vermicious Knids, Chief Interpreter, Chief Spy, Inventing Room, Ground Control, President of the United States, Miss Vice-President New!
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