![]() These shape-shifting monsters are the stuff of nightmares, although perhaps so ridiculous that nobody would believe in them.Įventually the elevator reaches the chocolate factory, but then the story takes a rather pointless turn, introducing the concept of ‘Wonka-vite’, tablets which can rejuvenate people, reducing their age by several years at a time. ![]() The great glass elevator is supposed to be returning to the chocolate factory, but the wrong buttons are pressed and it ends up in space, first in a giant (but unoccupied) space hotel, and then in battle with some most unpleasant creatures, the ‘vermicious knids’. The book is bizarre, even by Dahl standards, and in places a little scary. The first port of call is to Charlie’s house where his parents and his three other grandparents are collected, along with the bed in which the grandparents had spent most of their recent years. ![]() Charlie Bucket, his Grandpa Joe and Willy Wonka are travelling in a giant glass lift, which Wonka announces is really an elevator as it can travel in all directions, not just up and down. The story begins where the previous book ends. ![]() I thought I must have read it previously, as we own a copy ourselves but the plot (such as it is) was entirely unfamiliar to me. After I finished reading Roald Dahl ’s ‘ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ to my four-year-old grandson, it was logical to continue to the sequel, ‘Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator’. ![]()
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