We Love Reading: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

We Love Reading: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Author: Roald Dahl

Illustrator: Quentin Blake

Publisher: Puffin Books

Number of pages: 190 pages

Audience: People who love eating chocolate and other lollies would enjoy this book as well as people who liked the movie.

Text form: Chapter book

Text purpose: To entertain (and to make us hungry for chocolate)

Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a novel about a boy named Charlie Bucket who finds a golden ticket.  This ticket takes him on a trip of a lifetime to Mr Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. He along with 4 other lucky children enter the secret world of chocolate making.  Along the way they are tested.  Who will remain at the end?  

My rating: 9/10 (We think it would be even better with more pictures!)

Reviewed by:  Year 4 Stars at Christ the King

Check out: What's Your Story? by Rose Giannone

Title: What’s Your Story?

Author: Rose Giannone

Illustrator: Bern Emmerichs 

Publisher: Berbay Publishing

Number of pages: 40

Audience: Middle primary

Text form: Picture book

Text purpose: To entertain

What's Your Story? is a picture book which has a wide audience, being a historical fiction text. It immediately grabs the readers interest by posing the question "What's your story?". No matter who we are and where we come from, this is a question that immediately gets you thinking, as we all have a different experiences to share. 

The text centres on Australian history as it follows the journey of a the arrival of European settlers through the eyes of an orphan boy and an Aboriginal girl called Milba. It keeps the reader entertained by telling of the characters shared encounters about the way they live and the worlds that they come from.

Rating: 5 Stars!