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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
I have watched the old movie so many times, but I don’t think I have ever read the book. I felt like the movie follows the book pretty well, maybe a few scenes left out; I feel like I need to watch it again and see. It is a lot longer than his other books The Magic Finger and Fantastic Mr. Fox (which kind of seem more like fables in a way).
This one even is a bit of a fable, of what happens to people not making good choices for themselves.
The whole time I read it, I kept thinking about the imagination it took to conceive of these ideas. The movie has always been magical to me, and reading it made me think about the creation of the book.
“For about ten seconds there was absolute silence in the room. Nobody dared to speak or move. It was a magic moment.” P47
I didn’t remember the field where you could eat the grass and flowers, all the different rooms (they don’t go in the air bubble room, they just see it, along with many others) and the words of the songs.
This one even is a bit of a fable, of what happens to people not making good choices for themselves.
The whole time I read it, I kept thinking about the imagination it took to conceive of these ideas. The movie has always been magical to me, and reading it made me think about the creation of the book.
“For about ten seconds there was absolute silence in the room. Nobody dared to speak or move. It was a magic moment.” P47
I didn’t remember the field where you could eat the grass and flowers, all the different rooms (they don’t go in the air bubble room, they just see it, along with many others) and the words of the songs.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I read this book to my 5yo kindergartener (boy) and my 9yo 4th grader (girl). Both loved the book. The 5yo would fall asleep but begged me to read it every night. My 9yo kept asking me to read more and more chapters each night. We tried to limit it to 2-3 chapters. But it is a great book. It’s funny and entertaining. My 9yo liked to sing the oompah loompa songs in the book. Highly recommend read.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
STOREROOM NUMBER 54, it said. ALL THE CREAMS--DAIRY CREAM, WHIPPED CREAM, VIOLET CREAM, COFFEE CREAM, PINEAPPLE CREAM, VANILLA CREAM, AND HAIR CREAM.
"Hair cream?" cried Mike Teavee. "You don't use hair cream?"
"Row on!" shouted Mr. Wonka. "There's no time to answer silly questions!"
They streaked past a black door. STOREROOM NUMBER 71, it said on it. WHIPS--ALL SHAPES AND SIZES.
"Whips!" cried Veruca Salt. "What on earth do you use whips for?"
"For whipping cream, of course," said Mr. Wonka. "How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night! Row on, please!"
Another quick boost to my reading stats, courtesy the "100 books to read in a lifetime" list and continued working through everything Roald Dahl. The man himself is #problematic, but it doesn't seep into his writing too much, and so I can still love these rereads: Charlie's not as good/feelsy as [b:Matilda|39988|Matilda|Roald Dahl|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388793265s/39988.jpg|1015554], but it's still light frothy imaginative fun, especially for a kid, and with the familiar chilling nastiness lurking just underneath it that's so typical of all Dahl's work. Willy Wonka himself is such a foreboding, slightly-menacing figure that even when being taken on a giddy fun tour of his factory, it's still somewhat terrifying. As usual the plot has the good lesson for kids to not be a spoiled little brat, and you'll be rewarded accordingly.
During the demise of Mike Teavee, I also got a lil' warm-hearted and emotional during Dahl's screed against television & in defense of reading:
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Between the portrayal of Teavee and the Wormwoods (I dearly wish I could see the Matilda Broadway musical again, because "Telly" is one of my low-key fave songs from that soundtrack -- all I know I learned from telly / the bigger the telly, the smarter the man!), do you, maybe, just possibly, get the idea that Roald Dahl really disliked television? ;) Ha.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No