{"id":155,"date":"2013-12-06T01:59:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=155"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:31:33","slug":"charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0846-e1386294819275.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0846-e1386294819275-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0846\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0846-e1386294819275-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0846-e1386294819275-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may be the perfect read-aloud chapter book.\u00a0 It is terribly funny.\u00a0 There are lots of pictures and they are great (nothing against Quentin Blake, but I suggest sticking with the original illustrator).\u00a0 The characters are a hoot.\u00a0 The candy creativity is off the charts.\u00a0 The author is beautifully off his rocker.<\/p>\n<p>But the best part of all is simply reading it aloud.\u00a0 I had never realized how the language <em>sings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Caveat:\u00a0 While Charlie does quite well for a Dahl protagonist (sure, he nearly starves to death, but he is loved by his family&#8211;and for Dahl this is really quite a good start in life&#8211;which is more horrifying the more I think about it), terrible things do happen to other children and we are encouraged to react with unadulterated schadenfreude).\u00a0 Like all Dahl books, I suggest you read it alone first.\u00a0 And the movies are much less fun.<\/p>\n<p>Author:\u00a0 Roald Dahl<br \/>\nIllustrator: Joseph Schindelman<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=insofadog-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000EZIJKO&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;npa=1&amp;f=ifr\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the perfect read-aloud chapter book.\u00a0 It is terribly funny.\u00a0 There are lots of pictures and they are great (nothing against Quentin Blake, but I suggest sticking with the original illustrator).\u00a0 The characters are a hoot.\u00a0 The candy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[769,72,633,40,155,66,73,10,767,53,54],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-books","tag-caveat","tag-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory","tag-england","tag-food","tag-i-read-this-as-a-kid","tag-if-i-built-a-car","tag-joseph-schindelman","tag-machines","tag-movie","tag-quentin-blake","tag-roald-dahl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}