Illustrator: Quentin Blake
I'd tried some English books but this was the very first English book that I actually read till the end. I remember taking so much time to read and understand one sentence at a time, but as the story grows much fun it didn't take much effort to finish it off.
(Edit: So, apparently I thought this was the very first English book that I could finish reading till the very end, but it wasn't. I found out the other day that I had read a lot more English books before this one, and now I'm not sure what was the first English book that I have ever read. I have a bad memory and I'll try and think about it because some of you might be wondering what my first English book was.)
This novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was published in 1964, and the movie based on it was released in 1971. I hear that it wasn't a very big hit compared to the later remake movie starred by Johnny Depp in 2005.
The story is about a boy and a chocolate factory. It's not an ordinary chocolate factory, but it is the largest and most famous in the whole world! Charlie and the other four kids, Augustus, Veruca, Violet, and Mike, try finding the special golden ticket to the inside tour of Wonka's Factory.
Well, the story moves in a good pace. Not too slow or not too fast. There are a lot of simple but fun illustrations for those important scenes, which makes you feel like you're one of the five kids in the book with such an excitement! It'll make you keep turning the pages, one after another. For ESL readers, vocabulary is not that difficult. Some chapters contain songs that don't always make sense, but you can just scan through them and watch those parts in the movie. If you want to be in a shining world with lots of dreams and hopes like you used to have when you were smaller, you definitely want to try reading this one.
Movie (1971) Movie (2006)
You can get it on either Amazon.co.jp or at your local bookstore. Already read this one? You can get more books from this author: Want more from Roald Dahl?Well, the story moves in a good pace. Not too slow or not too fast. There are a lot of simple but fun illustrations for those important scenes, which makes you feel like you're one of the five kids in the book with such an excitement! It'll make you keep turning the pages, one after another. For ESL readers, vocabulary is not that difficult. Some chapters contain songs that don't always make sense, but you can just scan through them and watch those parts in the movie. If you want to be in a shining world with lots of dreams and hopes like you used to have when you were smaller, you definitely want to try reading this one.
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
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