Oz and Ends

Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

Showing posts with label BOOK Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BOOK Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Show all posts
16 February 2025

Wisest Thing I’ve Read Today

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From Katherine Rundell’s essay “Why Children’s Books?” in the London Review of Books : It’s easier to trust a writer who writes great food:...
02 October 2017

Dahl’s Chocolate Boy

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Last month I wrote about the suddenly fashionable but not really new news that Roald Dahl had originally described Charlie Bucket as blac...
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16 September 2017

The Original Charlie Bucket

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The press in both Britain and America is abuzz with reports that Roald Dahl originally wrote of Charlie Bucket, hero of Charlie and the C...
01 September 2014

That Charlie Chapter

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This weekend the Guardian printed a chapter from an early draft of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , with new illustratio...
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