These characters form a satirical caricature of the American government during the Cold War. But Vermicious Knids from the faraway planet of Vermes turn up with malevolent intentions.ĭuring this first part of the book, scenes with Charlie and Willy Wonka are interspersed with scenes with President Gilligrass of the United States, his vice-president (and former or not so former nursemaid), and his advisers. They soon find themselves orbiting around Earth, just as the United States is celebrating the grand opening of the first hotel in space. Charlie and Grandpa Joe, along with Wonka himself, have picked up the rest of the family and are sailing upward in the factory's glass elevator. Unfortunately, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator isn't the strongest of Dahl's books - I might even call it the weakest.Ĭharlie and the Great Glass Elevator starts where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory left off. After all, Dahl wrote many of my absolute favorite children's books, like The Witches, The BFG, Danny the Champion of the World and Matilda. I thought I had read all of Roald Dahl's marvelously grotesque books for children, until this year when I discovered that somehow I'd missed out on Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, the sequel to the classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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