What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka's famous, mysterious chocolate factory? What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr. Wonka's orders? In Dahl's most popular story, the nasty are punished and the good are deliciously, sumptuously rewarded.

A delectable new Deluxe edition of this wonderful classic.

This book was recognised in the Storybook category by the York Libraries Children's Book Award.

This book features in the following series: Penguin Classics, Penguin Modern Classics .

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Ivan Brunetti is an award-winning cartoonist who has illustrated covers for The New Yorker and edited two acclaimed anthologies of graphic fiction and cartoons. He teaches at Columbia College Chicago. Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents the child of a second marriage. His father and elder sister died when Roald was just three. His mother was left to raise two stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was her only son. He had an unhappy time at school and this influenced his writing greatly. He once said that what distinguished him from most other childrens writers was this business of remembering what it was like to be young. Many of his books have been turned into films - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Witches, James and The Giant Peach, Esia Trot, Fantastic Mr Fox. Roalds childhood and schooldays are the subject of his autobiography Boy. https://www. roalddahl. com/ Lev Grossman is ther book critic for TIME magazine and the bestselling author of the novels The Magicians and Codex. His new novel, The Magician King , will be published in the US in Autumn 2011.