Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.
First US edition
Costumes of Willy Wonka (from Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and the Hatter (from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) in London. A 2015 UK poll ranked them the top two children's books.
Golden Ticket from the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on display at a convention in Spain
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical playing at Drury Lane in London in 2013
Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".
Dahl in 1954
At age 10 with his sisters Alfhild, Else and Asta. Cardiff, 1927.
Mrs Pratchett's former sweet shop in Llandaff, Cardiff, has a blue plaque dedicated to Dahl. His autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood recalls the prank he and his friends played on her in a jar of gobstoppers.
Repton School in Derbyshire which Dahl attended from 1929 to 1934