num_pages: 174
description: "Candy for life and a tour of Willie Wonka's top-secret chocolate factorywas the prize for buying a candy bar containing a Golden Ticket. Here is theexciting, hilarious, and moral story of the five prizewinners. They were, alas,repulsive children, with the exception of Charlie Bucket, whose family was sopoor he could only have one candy bar a year. Rich in humor, acutely observant,Dahl lets his imagination rip in fairyland."-- "The New York Times."
language: English
title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
titlecomplete: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
characters: Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, Mike Teavee, Charlie Bucket, Willy Wonka, Grandpa Joe, Augustus Gloop
genres: Classics, Adventure, Fantasy, Childrens, Juvenile, Humor, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Novels, Fiction
ratings_count: 818511
series: Charlie Bucket
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Read Aloud, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: North Dakota Children's Choice Award
publisher: Aeonian Pr(Amerx)