The Knids are from a planet that is 184,270,000,000 miles away. They play an important role in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, as they nearly devour the whole group.

The Vermicious Knids are a species of carnivorous alien from the planet Vermes. Wonka is an excellent improviser, an he is very knowledgeable about little-known topics. He also saves their lives by recognizing the Vermicious Knids and preventing the others from getting near them. Wonka’s Elevator sends the Buckets up into space and they are stuck in orbit. In the book, Wonka has a goatee and bright, mischievous eyes. Wonka loves nonsense and mischief, but he can’t abide ugliness. Wonka confuses most of the people who meet him, but Charlie is fascinated by him. Wonka is exceedingly eccentric, with many odd qualities. The chocolate business has made him very rich, but he doesn’t care about money. Willy Wonka is the owner of the Great Glass Elevator and Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Charlie would rather put himself in danger than see others be hurt this is proven when Charlie uses the Elevator to tow a space shuttle back to Earth in order to save the shuttle occupants from the Vermicious Knids.

Charlie is shot up into space in the Great Glass Elevator along with the rest of his family and Wonka. Now, Charlie’s luck has turned: he is very wealthy and well off, and he has a whole chocolate factory to run. His whole family is allowed to come with him. At the end of the previous story, Wonka bequeathed the factory to Charlie as a reward for his good heart. He is the only one who would have been fit to run the factory. He lives with his mother, his father, and his four bed-ridden grandparents. He is very kind and brave, but unfortunately also extremely poor. love it.Charlie is the titular character and the protagonist of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. I have this book at my School Comment by Giovanni Genre Audiobook Comment by Muhammad Ahmad In 2013 he is playing the role of Willy Wonka in Sam Mendes' musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ĭouglas Hodge is a multi-award-winning English actor, with Olivier and Tony awards for his performance in La Cage aux Folles, and nominations for his leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Guys and Dolls and Inadmissible Evidence. It belongs to the fantastic Mr Willy Wonka, and the adventure becomes even greater upon discovering they're not the only ones orbiting the Earth at that particular time. This audiobook features original music.Ĭharlie Bucket and his family are rushing around the Earth at seventeen-thousand miles an hour in a great glass elevator. Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's classic Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, read by the actor Douglas Hodge, who plays Willy Wonka in the hit musical adaptation of the book.

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