Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be
allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop an enormously fat boy whose hobby is
eating Veruca Salt a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger
Violet Beauregarde a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around Mike Teavee a toy
pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television and Charlie Bucket Our
Hero a boy who is honest and kind brave and true and good and ready for the wildest time of
his life! Rich in humor acutely observant Dahl lets his imagination rip in fairyland. -The
New York Times
