Charlie Bucket loves chocolate - and Mr Willy Wonka, the mostwondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazingchocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of alifetime and all you have to do is find one of the five GoldenTickets. Charlie is the last lucky winner to join Willy Wonka in atour of his factory - where some amazing surprises, both good andbad, await the children. This title is an award-winning Roald Dahlfavorite.
The wind is strong on the Yorkshiremoors.There are few trees,and fewerhouses,to block its path.There is onehouse,however,that does not hide fromthe wind.It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst.The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange,small,dark childback home to Wuthering Heights,it seems he has openedhis doors to trouble.He has invited in something that,likethe wind,is safer kept out of the house.
Farmer Hoggett thinks the piglet he wins at the fair is justone to be fattened up for the freezer until his old sheepdog, Fly,takes Babe under her wing and starts to train him to be a sheepdogtoo. Babe's methods are unconventional but successful and he winsthe Grand Challenge Trials by being polite to his flock ofsheep.
One day, Barney, a solitary little boy, falls into a chalk pitand lands in a sort of cave, where he meets 'somebody with a lot ofshaggy hair and two bright black eyes' - whom he names him Stig.And together they enjoy some extraordinary adventures. This is amuch-loved classic story.
Matilda is a brilliant and sensitive child, but her parentsthink of her only as a nuisance. Even before she is five years old,she has read Dickens and Hemingway and still her parents think ofher as a pest. So she decides to get back at them. Herplatinum-haired mother and car salesman father are no match for hersharp genius, and neither is the cruel headmistress MissTrunchbull. And then she child prodigy discovers she has anextraordinary psychic power that can save her school and especiallythe lovely kindergarten teacher, Miss Honey.
