Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
First American edition, 1964
Author	Roald Dahl
Illustrator	Joseph Schindelman (first US edition) Faith Jaques (first UK edition) Michael Foreman (1985 edition) Quentin Blake (1995 edition)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English Welsh
Genre	Children's Fantasy novel
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (original) Penguin Books (current)
Publication date	·         1964 (U.S.) ·         1967 (UK)
Media type	Print (Hardback, Paperback)
Pages	155
ISBN	0-394-91011-76
OCLCNumber	9318922
Followed by	Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (disambiguation).

"Mr. Bucket, Charlie's father" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Mr. Bucket. 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 chocolatefactory 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. The book was 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 and the Great Glass Elevator, was written by Roald Dahl 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. Cadbur 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'swere 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 of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story.

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