Katrina'sBookReview



Title: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Author: Roald Dahl Illustrator: Quentin Blake No. Pages: 190 Genre: Adventure ISBN: 978-0-141-32269-8 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is an action packed, mysterious and imaginative story. In this book Roald Dahl does a fantastic job of painting a vivid and very descriptive picture in my mind, taking me on a wild adventure where almost anything is possible.

This story is based around a small boy named Charlie who is the new owner of the marvellous Chocolate Factory! Charlie, Mr Wonka, Grandpa Joe, Mr and Mrs Bucket, Grandma Josephine, Grandma Georgina and Grandpa George all boarded this amazing, truly phenomenal glass elevator that would take them places they had never been before, places no human has ever seen. They were in for the ride of their lives. Little did they know, loved ones would vanish, and they would have to go through minus land to save them. A place no man would ever want to go. Even Mr Wonka was scared. They would go through great and weird battles, fighting for dear life. Through the doubts and excitement, panics and grief, they stuck together and worked as a family to get through the rough patches. Mr Wonka’s cheerful and can do attitude will be questioned and tested. Charlie’s family will be tempted and act greedy. All the characters in the story walk away from this amazing adventure changed and moulded to be a better person. Everyone reading the story walks away with the knowledge that anything is possible if you put your mind to it and are left with their thoughts wondering and exploring, using their imagination to the best of their abilities, dreaming up what could happen next. At the end of the day they become known as aliens, astronauts, criminals and heroes.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this book, though some parts were slightly confusing. By the time I reached the second chapter I was completely hooked. I recommend this book to anyone with a taste of adventure and has a comical sense of humour. I rate this book 8/10.

Katrina