A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero"
- David Walliams A phizz-whizzing rebrand for the world's No.1 storyteller
- Roald Dahl! Exciting bold & instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory & is on his way to take possession of it
- in none other than a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise Charlie & his family find themselves in splendid orbit around the Earth. A daring adventure has begun with the one & only Mr Willy Wonka leading the way. Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations."