Willy Wonka's glass elevator shoots Charlie and his whole family into orbit around the Earth
Wonka goes to space
At the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka's Great Glass Elevator crashed through the factory roof. Now, with Charlie, his parents and all four grandparents on board, it shoots so high that it ends up in orbit beside America's brand-new Space Hotel. The astronauts think it is an enemy spaceship, the President panics, and something nasty is lurking in the hotel.
Who will enjoy it
Children who loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and want more of Willy Wonka's wild inventions.
What you will get
A zany, fast-moving sequel full of space monsters, silly politicians and outrageous Wonka inventions, with the same sparkling wordplay as the first book.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Children’s Books · Space adventure · Willy Wonka · Humor
Length
176 pages · ≈ 5 h
More about this book
The story starts right where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ended. Willy Wonka is flying the Great Glass Elevator with Charlie, his parents and his four bedridden grandparents, who are complaining loudly. An error sends them soaring into orbit, where they find America's first Space Hotel waiting to receive its staff. Watching from Washington, the President of the United States and his advisers, a wonderfully silly group, decide the glass elevator must be a hostile spacecraft.
Mr. Wonka docks at the hotel anyway, and the visitors discover that it has been taken over by Vermicious Knids, shape-shifting, egg-shaped monsters from outer space who are impossible to fight. The adventure becomes a frantic chase around the planet, followed by a return to the chocolate factory. There, the grandparents get hold of Wonka-Vite, a pill that makes people younger, and take far too much of it, leading to a peculiar rescue mission and the invention of its opposite. The ending brings the whole Bucket family together in the White House.
Short, silly and best read aloud with funny voices. About 176 pages, illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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