Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Douglas Hodge

Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's Summary

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!

©1964 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio

Critic Reviews

"Rich in humor, acutely observant, Dahl lets his imagination rip in fairyland." (The New York Times)
 

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian...[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” (The New York Times)

fanciful fun for five-year-olds

Would you listen to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory again? Why?

We have listened to this book over and over again! The author is very engaging with voices and sound effects able keep the attention of even the youngest audience.

Top Shelf Narration. Professional Production

Complete professional narration. With sound effects and the many voices of the narrator who is a true professional actor makes all the difference we listen to this book over and over due to the quality of the production.

Nice story

It is a little bit different from the movie but still a nice story. It was very nice

I love Roald Dahl's books! It is marvelous

It was awesome i love books and especially Roald Dahl's. If he was still alive I would want his autograph and congratulate him!

Dahl is my favorite writer of children's novels

Picking the best of Roald Dahl's children's novels is impossible because there are so many great ones. My personal favorite is The BFG, but Charlie and the Chocolate Factory may be more famous because of it's movie adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. (Maryrose Wood's The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series has become my favorite contemporary children's book series.)

Roald Dahl died 27 years ago, but his books remain very popular throughout the English speaking world. That popularity is richly deserved.

My regret is that 5 of my six grandchildren are now too old for Roald Dahl's novels. But I am not!

Great for everyone!

Terrific narrator, nothing scary for young kids, our whole family loves and has listened to many times.

Boss

It's amazing. Douglas makes himself sound exactly like the person and he is very energetic

Great entertainment

I had a great time with this book. My first audio book. I listened with my child, we were both enthralled!

Amazing and absolutely wonderful

It was so much more in depth than the the movie and so much more fantastic.

SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND

MATURITY IS HIGHLY OVER RATED
NO ARGUMENTS PLEASE
I have listened to several of Dahl's books and liked them all. This one is my favorite so far. You can not compare Dahl to other writers because he does not write like other writers. He has an imagination that is all his own and very little is borrowed from anyone else. This book is especially unique and I know of no other like it. It is entertaining and heart warming. If you read only one Dahl book, let it be this one.

IT WILL ALL COME OUT IN THE WASH