Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Wikipedia Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( April 2014 ) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Original book cover of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator with illustrations by Joseph Schindelman Author Roald Dahl Illustrator Joseph Schindelman ( 1st US edition ) Faith Jaques ( 1st UK edition ) Michael Foreman ( 2nd edition ) Quentin Blake ( 3rd edition ) Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Science fantasy Children 's novel Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Publication date 1972 Media type Print ( Hardback & Paperback ) Pages 159 ISBN 0 - 394 - 82472 - 5 ( first edition, hardback ) OCLC 314239 LC Class PZ7. D1515 Ck3 Preceded by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Followed by Charlie in the White House ( unfinished ) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children 's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973. Unlike its predecessor, this book has never been adapted to film. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 ) disappointed Dahl to the point that he refused to have a film version produced. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have announced that they have no intention of producing a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ), although elements from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator are seen at the end of the film. Dahl had intended to write a third book in the series but never finished it. Contents 1 Plot 2 Unfinished sequel 3 Editions 4 References Plot This section 's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( October 2016 ) The story picks up immediately where the previous book left off, with Charlie and his whole family aboard the flying Great Glass Elevator, en route to the Chocolate Factory which Mr. Wonka intends to give to Charlie. The height to which the Elevator ascends frightens Charlie 's family sending the Elevator in the wrong direction. As a result, the Elevator goes into orbit, where Wonka docks them at a Space Hotel In the White House, President Lancelot R. Gilligrass, Vice President Elvira Tibbs, the president 's best friend, chiefs, and the U.S. Cabinet see the Elevator dock with the Space Hotel, and fear it contains hostile agents of a foreign or extraterrestrial government, while the space shuttle containing the hotel staff and three astronauts approaches the Space Hotel. On the Hotel, Wonka and the others hear the President address them across a radio link as Martians, and Wonka therefore teases Gilligrass with nonsense words and grotesque poetry. In the midst of this, the hotel 's own elevators open, revealing five gigantic amoeba - like monsters, which change shape : each forming a letter of the word ' SCRAM '. Recognising the danger, Mr. Wonka orders everybody off the Space Hotel. These shape - changers, Mr. Wonka tells the others, are predatory extraterrestrials called Vermicious Knids, waiting in the Space Hotel to consume its staff and guests. Mr. Wonka also explains that the Knids have tried to invade Earth and consume its inhabitants like they have done with many other planets but are always incinerated because of the atmosphere protecting the planet. Upon the Elevator 's departure, the staff and astronauts go aboard, and the Knids consume twenty - four of the staff, while the others escape. The Knids dive - bomb the shuttle, destroying the rockets, cameras, and radio antenna, apparently stranding the occupants in space. Seeing all this from the `` Knidproof '' Great Glass Elevator, Charlie suggests that he and his companions tow the shuttle back to Earth. Wonka pilots the Elevator into range, whereupon Grandpa Joe connects the two vessels by means of a steel cord. The Knids change into living segments of a towing line, with which to capture the two spacecraft, while a single Knid wraps his body around the Elevator to provide an anchor for this operation ; whereupon Willy Wonka returns the Elevator to Earth, and the Knids are incinerated in the atmosphere. At the right moment, Mr. Wonka releases the shuttle, which floats safely home. The Elevator then crashes back down through the roof of the chocolate factory, but thanks to Mr. Wonka 's expert piloting, the hurtling Elevator perfectly engages inside another of the same shafts that it had exited from in the first book, and rolls smoothly downward to a normal stop inside the factory. Despite Charlie 's urging, and Mr. Wonka 's intention for Charlie 's family to help him with the factory 's operations, Grandma Georgina, Grandpa George, and Grandma Josephine still refuse to leave their bed. Wonka gives them a rejuvenation formula, called ' Wonka - Vite '. The three bedridden recipients take much more than they need, and they each lose eighty years. Grandpa George reverts to one year old, Grandma Josephine three months, and Grandma Georgina - who was only seventy - eight years old - vanishes altogether, having become `` minus two ''. Charlie and Mr. Wonka journey in the Great Glass Elevator to ' Minusland ' ( a limbo containing those subject to Grandma Georgina 's transformation, discovered by Mr. Wonka when his initial experiments to create Wonka - Vite were too powerful ). There Mr. Wonka restores her with ' Vita - Wonk ', a sprayable compound that makes people older. Upon her return, Grandma Georgina has become 358 years old, and her memory entails a long history beginning with the voyage in the ship Mayflower and ending in the present moment. Using a more cautious dose of Wonka - Vite, her companions restore her correct age of seventy - eight ; and with this done, Charlie and Mr. Wonka return Grandma Josephine and Grandpa George to their original age. Immediately afterwards, the Oompa - Loompas tell Mr. Wonka a helicopter has landed near the factory and give him a letter from President Gilligrass, in which he says he now realises Wonka was responsible for the rescue. The President congratulates the occupants of the Great Glass Elevator and invites them as the guests of honour to the White House for dinner. Charlie and Grandpa Joe end up goading the other three grandparents out of bed, pointing out that their bed ca n't make it up to Marine One, forcing them to leap out of bed, not wanting to miss the opportunity. As the helicopter prepares to take the family to a department store so Charlie 's grandparents may obtain clothes to replace their pyjamas, Charlie and Grandpa Joe remark between themselves that their adventures have only `` just begun ''. Unfinished sequel A follow - up to the book was planned, called Charlie in the White House. Charlie 's family and Willy Wonka are invited by President Gilligrass to have dinner at the White House, as thanks for rescuing the Space Shuttle from its attack by the Vermicious Knids. Dahl only wrote the first chapter, which is on display at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden. Editions ISBN 0 - 394 - 82472 - 5 ( hardcover, 1972 ) ISBN 0 - 394 - 92472 - X ( library servings, 1972 ) ISBN 0 - 04 - 823106 - 1 ( board book, 1973 ) ISBN 0 - 14 - 030755 - 9 ( paperback, 1975 ) ISBN 0 - 14 - 032043 - 1 ( paperback, 1986, illustrated by Michael Foreman ) ISBN 0 - 14 - 032870 - X ( paperback, 1988 ) ISBN 0 - 670 - 85249 - X ( hardcover, 1995 ) ISBN 0 - 14 - 037155 - 9 ( paperback, 1995 ) ISBN 0 - 14 - 038533 - 9 ( paperback, 1997 ) ISBN 0 - 375 - 91525 - 7 ( library binding, 2001 ) ISBN 0 - 14 - 131143 - 6 ( paperback, 2001 ) ISBN 0 - 375 - 81525 - 2 ( hardcover, 2001 ) ISBN 0 - 14 - 240412 - 8 ( paperback, 2005 ) ISBN 0 - 141 - 80780 - 6 ( audio CD read by Eric Idle ) References Jump up ^ Bishop, Tom ( 11 July 2005 ). `` Willy Wonka 's everlasting film plot ''. BBC News. Retrieved 2013 - 12 - 29. Jump up ^ Chilton, Martin ( 18 November 2010 ). `` The 25 best children 's books ''. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2013 - 12 - 29. Jump up ^ `` Charlie in the White. ''. Roald Dahl 's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack Tom and Jerry : Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Characters Willy Wonka Theater Roald Dahl 's Willy Wonka ( 2004 musical ) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2013 musical ) The Golden Ticket Music Charlie and the Chocolate Factory : Original Motion Picture Soundtrack `` Pure Imagination '' `` The Candy Man '' Miscellaneous The Ride Video games Wonka Bar Everlasting Gobstopper Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble The Willy Wonka Candy Company Roald Dahl Children 's fiction The Gremlins ( 1943 ) James and the Giant Peach ( 1961 ) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 1964 ) The Magic Finger ( 1966 ) Fantastic Mr Fox ( 1970 ) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator ( 1972 ) Danny, the Champion of the World ( 1975 ) The Enormous Crocodile ( 1978 ) The Twits ( 1980 ) George 's Marvellous Medicine ( 1981 ) The BFG ( 1982 ) The Witches ( 1983 ) The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me ( 1985 ) Matilda ( 1988 ) Esio Trot ( 1990 ) The Vicar of Nibbleswicke ( 1991 ) The Minpins ( 1991 ) Children 's poetry Revolting Rhymes ( 1982 ) Dirty Beasts ( 1983 ) Rhyme Stew ( 1989 ) Adult novels Sometime Never : A Fable for Supermen ( 1948 ) My Uncle Oswald ( 1979 ) Adult short story collections Over to You : Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying ( 1946 ) Someone Like You ( 1953 ) Kiss Kiss ( 1960 ) Lamb to the Slaughter ( 1953 ) Switch Bitch ( 1974 ) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More ( 1977 ) The Best of Roald Dahl ( 1978 ) Tales of the Unexpected ( 1979 ) More Tales of the Unexpected ( 1980 ) The Roald Dahl Omnibus ( 1986 ) Two Fables ( 1986 ) Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life : The Country Stories of Roald Dahl ( 1989 ) The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl ( 1991 ) The Roald Dahl Treasury ( 1997 ) The Great Automatic Grammatizator ( 1998 ) Skin and Other Stories ( 2000 ) Roald Dahl : Collected Stories ( 2006 ) Non-fiction The Mildenhall Treasure ( 1946 ) Boy : Tales of Childhood ( 1984 ) Going Solo ( 1986 ) Memories with Food at Gipsy House ( 1991 ) Roald Dahl 's Guide to Railway Safety ( 1991 ) My Year ( 1993 ) Film adaptations 36 Hours ( 1965 ) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 ) Danny, the Champion of the World ( 1989 ) The BFG ( 1989 ) The Witches ( 1990 ) Four Rooms ( 1995 ) James and the Giant Peach ( 1996 ) Matilda ( 1996 ) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ) Fantastic Mr. Fox ( 2009 ) Roald Dahl 's Esio Trot ( 2015 ) The BFG ( 2016 ) Revolting Rhymes ( 2016 ) Tom and Jerry : Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ( 2017 ) Film scripts The Bells of Hell Go Ting - a-ling - a-ling ( 1966, unfinished ) You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) The Night Digger ( 1971 ) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 ) Television series Way Out ( 1961 ) Tales of the Unexpected ( 1979 -- 88 ) Musicals and plays The Honeys ( 1955 ) Matilda ( 2010 ) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2013 ) Fantastic Mr Fox ( 2016 ) See also Quentin Blake Roald Dahl bibliography Roald Dahl short stories bibliography Roald Dahl 's Book of Ghost Stories ( 1983 ) List of Tales of the Unexpected episodes Related Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre Roald Dahl Children 's Gallery Patricia Neal ( wife ) Tessa Dahl ( daughter ) Ophelia Dahl ( daughter ) Lucy Dahl ( daughter ) Sophie Dahl ( granddaughter ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charlie_and_the_Great_Glass_Elevator&oldid=806522644 '' Categories : 1972 British novels 1972 in fiction Children 's books by Roald Dahl Willy Wonka Venus in fiction Science fantasy novels Sequel novels Alfred A. 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