# Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

**Author(s):** Roald Dahl
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** fantasy, literary-fiction, middle-grade, young-adult, childrens
**Pages:** 109
**Publisher:** Puffin
**Published:** Sat Jan 01 2005 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780140371543
**ISBN-10:** 0140371540
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory

## Description

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin 11 months later. 

In the 2012 survey published by SLJ, a monthly with primarily US audience, Charlie was the second of four books by Dahl among their Top 100 Chapter Books, one more than any other writer. Time magazine in the US included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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