About this title: In this sequel to CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, Charlie, Willy Wonka, Charlie's parents, and all four of Charlie's grandparents travel through outer space via a magical glass elevator. The travellers visit the world's first space hotel, battle the horrible Vermicious Knids and even save the world. Illustrated with b&w drawings.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780394824727ISBN:0394824725
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. damaged book cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140328707ISBN:014032870X
Description: Very Good. Very good. Light general wear with poem page noted first page. Otherwise pages clean, tight, unmarked. Sits straight. 176 p.; 0.52" x 7.78" x 5.07". Illustrated. We have many titles by this author. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780141301129ISBN:0141301120
Description: Blake, Quentin. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Very Good. 0553202065 SS--A GOOD LOOKING mass market paperback book! ! Some creasing of the spine & signs of wear from reading--nothing major. Has store stamp on top border. SMOKE FREE HOME! Do not settle for worn, torn, throwaways. Pay a few pennies more for a nice copy! read more
Description: Very Good. 014032870X Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Very Good. 0141301120 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Very Good. 0141301120 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140328707ISBN:014032870X
Description: Egielski, Richard. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. pages are foxed but tight and unmarked-a few pages have light staining-cover is slightly cocked-corners and spine ends show shelf wear-spine shows no visible creasing read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780141301129ISBN:0141301120
Description: Blake, Quentin. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Book in beautiful condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
"This is the continuation of Charlie and the chocolate factory. After Willy Wonka gave his factory to Charlie, he and his family was invited to a glass elevator that goes high up into the sky. Accidentally, they went into space. I liked the first book a lot more because Charlie's adventure in space didn't seem realistic at all. Even though the first book didn't seem realistic too. If you have high hopes on this book because of the first one, then you should pass on this book because it has little to do with the first one."
"Can't believe its from the same guy who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Where were the hilarious characters? Wonka and Charlie and Grandpa Joe have been replaced by Wanka and half-headed nitwits, the rest of the Buckets lost their dignity as well and Dahl himself, I really don't know what he was thinking. Where was the wry and itelligent and sometimes black humour? This isn't even slapstick, it's a poor attempt of one. Where C&tCF spoke to a universal audience, C&tGE would not reach the same scope of readers."
"In the first book, charlie won the chocolate factory and now he is going to another adventure, the great glass elevator. charlie, willy wonka, and everyone else were trapped in the elevator. this happened because willy wonka didn't press the button since he was distracted. they waited for a while and later on the space hotel happened to be in thier path so they stayed there. i enjoyed reading this book because the character were acting really silly and that makes it interesting to the readers."
I think the following poem, rendered by the formidable Miss.Tibbs in honour of the President deserves special mention. Dahl's comic timing and astuteness were best seen in his whacky poems. So here goes:
The Nurse's Song
This mighty man of whom I sing, The greatest of them all, Was once a teeny little thing, Just eighteen inches tall.
I knew him as a tiny tot, I nursed him on my knee. I used to sit him on the pot And wait for him to wee.
I always washed between his toes, And cut his little nails. I brushed his hair and wiped his nose And weighed him on the scales.
Through happy childhood days he strayed, As all nice children should. I smacked him when he disobeyed, And stopped when he was good.
It soon began to dawn on me He wasn't very bright, Because when he was twenty-three He couldn't read or write.
"What shall we do?" his parents sob. "The boy has got the vapours! He couldn't even get a job Delivering the papers!"
"Ah-ha," I said, "this little clot Could be a politician." "Nanny," he cried, "Oh Nanny, what A super proposition!"
"Okay," I said, "let's learn and note The art of politics. Let's teach you how to miss the boat And how to drop some bricks, And how to win the people's vote And lots of other tricks.
Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.
And most important, by the way, In not to let your teeth decay, And keep your fingers clean.
And now that I am eighty-nine, It's too late to repent. The fault was mine the little swine Became the President."
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