Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

'I, WILLY WONKA, have DECIDED to allow FIVE CHILDREN to visit my FACTORY this year. These LUCKY FIVE will be able to see ALL THE SECRETS AND THE MAGIC.'

--back cover

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story presents 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.

In the 2012 survey published by SLJ, a monthly magazine with a primarily American audience, Charlie was the second of four Dahl books among its 100 best chapbooks, one more than any other writer. Time magazine in the United States included the novel in its list of the 100 best young adult books of all time.

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