"monsters, known as Vermicious Knids, which form a letter of the word 'SCRAM'. Recognising the danger, Mr Wonka orders everybody off the Space Hotel. Upon the Elevator's departure, the monsters consumed some people aboard. Charlie suggests towing the shuttle back to Earth. Whereupon Willy Wonka returns the Elevator with the shuttle to Earth, the monsters are incinerated in the atmosphere. Mr Wonka releases the shuttle, and the Elevator then crashes down through the roof of the chocolate factory. Back in the chocolate factory, three of Charlie's grandparents refuse to leave their bed. Mr Wonka gives them a rejuvenation formula. They"
"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. The book was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973. Although the original book has been filmed three times, in 1971, 2005, and an animated adaptation in 2017, ""The Great Glass Elevator"""
"are invited by President Gilligrass to have dinner at the White House, as thanks for rescuing the spacecraft from its attack by the Vermicious Knids. Dahl only wrote the first chapter, which is on display at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. The book was first"
"The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is a 1985 children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is about a young boy, Billy, who meets a giraffe, pelican and monkey who work as window cleaners. Although the story is told in the first person by Billy, the word 'me' in the title refers to the monkey, who concludes every verse of his signature song with the phrase 'the giraffe and the pelly and me'. The story is told from the point of view of Billy, a young boy"
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a media franchise. It includes two books, two live-action theatrical films, two video games, and a ride. ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" is a 1964 children's book 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 in 1967. ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"" is"
"and the Great Glass Elevator"", was written by Roald Dahl in 1971 and published in 1972. Dahl had also planned to write a third book in the series but never finished it. The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products. At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory. Because"
"the sequel to ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", continuing the story of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"" was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973. ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" is a 1971 musical film adaptation of the 1964 novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Mel Stuart, and starred Gene Wilder as Wonka. The film tells the story of Charlie Bucket"
"The Great Automatic Grammatizator The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below. The stories, with the exception of the war story ""Katina"", possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre, or even macabre sense of humor. They generally end with unexpected plot twists. Groff Conklin in 1954 called the short story ""The Great Automatic Grammatizator"" ""an awe-inspiring fantasy-satire ... an"
"unforgettable bit of biting nonsense"". The Great Automatic Grammatizator The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below. The stories, with the exception of the war story ""Katina"", possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre, or even macabre sense of humor. They generally end with unexpected plot twists. Groff Conklin in 1954 called the short story ""The Great Automatic Grammatizator"""
"children include ""James and the Giant Peach"", ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", ""Matilda"", ""The Witches"", ""Fantastic Mr Fox"", ""The BFG"", ""The Twits"" and ""George's Marvellous Medicine"". His adult works include ""Tales of the Unexpected"". Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (""née"" Hesselberg). Dahl's father had emigrated to the UK from Sarpsborg in Norway, and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s. His mother came over and married his father in 1911. Dahl was named after the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen. His first"
"""already"" or ""at that time"" cannot be used to describe ""now"" in the present, which is ""nunc"" in Latin. ""Jam"" is therefore never available today. Whereas the first book has the deck of playing cards as a theme, ""Through the Looking-Glass"" is based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Most of the main characters are represented by a chess piece, with Alice being a pawn. The looking-glass world is divided into sections by brooks or streams, with the crossing of each brook usually signifying a change in the scene, and corresponding to"
"exactly"", the same as Liddell on that date. Second, he dedicated them ""to Alice Pleasance Liddell"". Third, there is an acrostic poem at the end of ""Through the Looking-Glass"". Reading downward, taking the first letter of each line, spells out Liddell's full name. The poem has no title in ""Through the Looking-Glass"", but is usually referred to by its first line, ""A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky"". A boat beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July— Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear— Long has paled"
"some similarities with the plot of Roald Dahl's ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"" (1972), in which the main characters also fly around the world in an elevator. Young Abeltje gets a job as a liftboy in a department store. His boss tells him that he may not press the elevator's top (green) button under any circumstances. One time, when Abeltje gets into trouble, he presses the button, and the elevator goes shooting out the building and flies off. Trapped with him on the elevator are a travelling mothball salesman, Jozias Tump; a singing instructor, Miss Klaterhoen, and a young"
"Zealand), the BFG writes a book of their adventures identified as the novel itself—under the name ""Roald Dahl"". The BFG first appears as a story told to Danny by his father in ""Danny, the Champion of the World"". The ending is almost the same as ""James and the Giant Peach"", when he writes a story about himself, by himself. Also, Mr. Tibbs relates to Mrs. Tibbs, the friend of Mr. Gilligrass, the U.S. president in ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"". ""The BFG"" has won numerous awards including the 1985 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis as the year's best children's book, in its"
"to other works. ""Das Kapital"" is Karl Marx's magnum opus, ""Long Tall Sally"" is a song by Little Richard also famous as a cover by The Beatles, and ""Cocksucker Blues"" is an infamous unreleased Rolling Stones song and film. ""Better Things for Better Living Through Chemistry"" was an advertising slogan for DuPont, while ""The Cloud of Unknowing"" is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The novel incorporates a number of historical events. The prologue is about ""The Shot Heard 'Round the World"" and the whereabouts of the ball"
"James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original first edition published by Alfred Knopf featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been reillustrated versions of it over the years, done by Michael Simeon for the first British edition, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996. The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with"
"to help Wonka confront and reconcile with his estranged father; Wonka finally realizes the value of family, while his father learns to accept his son for who he is, and not what he does. In the end, Wonka finally allows Charlie's family to move into the factory. Author Roald Dahl disapproved of the 1971 film adaptation and declined the film rights to produce the sequel, ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"". Warner Bros. and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered discussions with the Dahl estate in 1991, hoping to purchase the rights to produce another film version of ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory""."
"long, perfectly waved platinum-blond hair and her pink feather boa, looks like a pretty and inert doll—"" The article continues: ""And if the Stepford daughter on the cover is meant to remind us of Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde, she doesn't: those badly behaved squirts are bubbling over with rude life."" Moreover, writes Talbot, ""The Modern Classics cover has not a whiff of this validation of childish imagination; instead, it seems to imply a deviant adult audience."" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features"
"Wonka exudes none of the gravity required for the role. It's as though he didn't take the role seriously. Rather than an intimidating candyman teaching brats a lesson, this Wonka is simply a freak."" Depp received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role as Willy Wonka, but lost to Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in ""Walk the Line"". Willy Wonka Willy Wonka is a fictional character who appears in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" and its sequel ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"". In"
"Willy Wonka Willy Wonka is a fictional character who appears in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" and its sequel ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"". In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets inside chocolate bars, with the finders being rewarded with a tour of his factory and a promise of a lifetimes supply of chocolate, throughout the tour four of the children, with Charlie Bucket being left as the winner. At this point Wonka reveals that the real prize is the factory, as Wonka needs someone to take over the"
"RAF pilots blamed the gremlins for all the problems with the aircraft. While at the British Embassy in Washington, Dahl sent a copy to the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who read it to her grandchildren, and the book was commissioned by Walt Disney for a film that was never made. Dahl went on to create some of the best-loved children's stories of the 20th century, such as ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", ""Matilda"", ""James and the Giant Peach"", ""The Witches"", ""Fantastic Mr Fox"", ""The BFG"", ""The Twits"" and ""George's Marvellous Medicine"". Dahl also had a successful parallel career as the"
"the impression of movement. List indicator(s) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a media franchise. It includes two books, two live-action theatrical films, two video games, and a ride. ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" is a 1964 children's book 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 in 1967. ""Charlie"
"against shark bites. He recites a poem of his own composition, 'A-Sitting on a Gate', (but the song's ""name"" is called 'Haddocks' Eyes') and he and Alice depart. White Knight (Through the Looking-Glass) The White Knight is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's book ""Through the Looking-Glass"". He represents the chess piece of the same name. As imagined in John Tenniel's illustrations for the ""Alice"" stories he has echoes of John Millais's ""Sir Isumbras at the Ford"". The White Knight saves Alice from his opponent, the Red Knight. He repeatedly falls off his horse and lands on his head, and"
"his new words on familiar sounds, adding: In 2016, marking the centenary of Dahl's birth, Rennie compiled ""The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary"" which includes many of his invented words and their meaning. Rennie commented that some of Dahl's words have already escaped his world, for example, ""Scrumdiddlyumptious"": ""Food that is utterly delicious"". In his poetry, Dahl gives a humorous re-interpretation of well-known nursery rhymes and fairy tales, providing surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after. Dahl's collection of poems ""Revolting Rhymes"" is recorded in audiobook form, and narrated by actor Alan Cumming. For a brief period in the 1960s,"
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 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. The book has been adapted into two major motion pictures: ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" in 1971, and ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" in 2005. The book's sequel, ""Charlie"
"Through the Looking-Glass Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) (also known as ""Alice through the Looking-Glass"" or simply ""Through the Looking-Glass"") is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, etc) ""Through the Looking-Glass"" includes such"
"for the imagination of children and not the analysis of ""mad people"". The Walrus and the Carpenter ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"" is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that appeared in his book ""Through the Looking-Glass"", published in December 1871. The poem is recited in , by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. The poem is composed of 18 stanzas and contains 108 lines, in an alternation of iambic trimeters and iambic tetrameters. The rhyme scheme is ABCBDB, with masculine rhymes throughout. The rhyming and rhythmical scheme used, as well as some archaisms and syntactical turns, are those of the"
"it rolls through a ""famous chocolate factory"": a reference to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Towards the end of the book, people in New York City identify the protagonists, incorrectly, as Whangdoodles, Snozzwangers, Hornswogglers, or Vermicious Knids. All of those animals (except the last) are mentioned by Willy Wonka as predators of the Oompa-Loompas; and Vermicious Knids appear in the sequel book, ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"", when they try to link up with the Space Hotel U.S.A. It also references ""the BFG"" in the end of the novel: on the last page, James writes a recount of his adventure"
"time and chocolate."" Before going, Charlie confesses that he and Grandpa Joe tasted the Fizzy-Lifting Drinks, and states that he therefore doesn’t deserve the lifetime supply of chocolate he was promised. He apologizes to Wonka and thanks him for the tour. Wonka stops Charlie from leaving and announces that the entire competition was devised with the goal of finding his successor, and that Charlie's behavior and performance prove that he should take over the factory. Wonka then takes them for a ride in the Great Glass Elevator (""Flying"", reprise). Augustus, Violet, Veruca and Mike appear, restored to their former selves,"
"for his readership; the poem is, after all, part of a dream. In later writings he discussed some of his lexicon, commenting that he did not know the specific meanings or sources of some of the words; the linguistic ambiguity and uncertainty throughout both the book and the poem may largely be the point. In ""Through the Looking-Glass"", the character of Humpty Dumpty, in response to Alice's request, explains to her the non-sense words from the first stanza of the poem; however, Carroll's personal commentary on several of the words differ from Humpty's. For example, following the poem, a ""rath"""
"that ""she looked like a big French doll"". By 1918, Lloyd and Roach had begun to develop his character beyond an imitation of his contemporaries. Harold Lloyd would move away from tragicomic personas, and portray an everyman with unwavering confidence and optimism. The persona Lloyd referred to as his ""Glass"" character (often named ""Harold"" in the silent films) was a much more mature comedy character with greater potential for sympathy and emotional depth, and was easy for audiences of the time to identify with. The ""Glass"" character is said to have been created after Roach suggested that Harold was too"
"unable to stop inventing, even if it means breaking the rules. Wonka tells Charlie that he has won, and ushers him into his ""Great Glass Elevator"". The two soar above town in the Great Glass Elevator, and Wonka tells Charlie that his grand prize is the chocolate factory (""The View From Here""). He reaches into his pocket and reveals that he received Charlie's letter after all, and wants to begin working on some of Charlie's inventions. As they land back outside the factory, Wonka is immediately ready to begin working but Charlie is concerned about what will happen to his"
"Cabbages and Kings (novel) Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"", featured in Lewis Carroll's ""Through the Looking Glass"". Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. ""Cabbages and Kings"" can be classified as Fix-up novel. In the"