Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is the superb sequel to the ever-popular Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.Charlie Bucket has WON Willy Wonkas chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it. In a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise Charlie and his family find themselves in splendid orbit around the Earth. A daring adventure has begun with the one and only Mr Willy Wonka leading the way.A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero David Walliams Roald Dahl the best-loved of childrens writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after a monumental bash on the head sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved childrens illustrators and its impossible now to think of Roald Dahls writings without imagining Quentin Blakes illustrations.
