Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Audio CD)
Author(s): Roald Dahl
This is Penguin Audiobooks Roald Dahl's classic: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, read by Douglas Hodge, who plays Willy Wonka in the West End musical. This audiobook features original music and sound design by Pinewood film studios. Charlie Bucket desperately wants to eat more than cabbage soup every day. But even more than that, he longs to see Wonka's enormous chocolate factory! Now Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, has hidden golden tickets inside his delicious creamy chocolate bars. Only five winners can go through those great iron gates; will one of them be Charlie? Douglas Hodge is a multi-award-winning English actor, with Olivier and Tony awards for his performance in La Cage aux Folles, and nominations for his leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Guys and Dolls and Inadmissible Evidence. In 2013 he is playing the role of Willy Wonka in Sam Mendes' musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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The best books grow old gracefully. They retain their importance and affect each new generation as powerfully as the one before. -- Julia Eccleshare Lovereading4Kids
Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and total sales are over 100 million worldwide! Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Puffin Audiobooks
- : 0.184
- : 01 April 2013
- : 153mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 September 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roald Dahl
- : CD-Audio
- : Unabridged