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Matilda Wormwood is only five years old, but she is a genius. Unfortunately, her parents are too stupid to even notice. Worse, her horrible headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, is a bully who makes life difficult—especially for Matilda's teacher, Miss Honey, and her friends. However, what Miss Trunchbull doesn't know is that Matilda is an incredibly clever child and has a trick or two up her sleeve... |
Nobody has seen Willy Wonka—or the inside of his amazing chocolate factory—in years. When Wonka announces his plans to invite the winners of five Golden Tickets to visit his factory, the whole world is after those tickets! Little Charlie Bucket longs to find a Golden Ticket and get the chance to visit the mysterious factory and well, he has just as much chance as anyone else, doesn’t he? |
James Henry Trotter lives with his two horrid aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who never let him have fun or play with other children. He hasn't got a single friend in the whole wide world. That is, not until he meets the Old Green Grasshopper and the rest of the insects aboard a giant, magical peach! |
The Big Friendly Giant, BFG, is unlike other giants. For a start, he’d rather eat repulsant snozzcumbers than chomp on innocent children—lucky for little Sophie, he is far too nice and jumbly. It's not long before the BFG becomes Sophie's very best friend, and the pair are hatching a clever plan to deal with the cruel and nasty giants—with a very exceptional ally. |
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Part of a Classic Series, Racist Undertones
I have a 6 year old that is Charlie Bucket obsessed - so naturally after reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, watching the movie and the classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, we moved on to this second book. It starts off extremely slow and most of the setting is outer space, not the factory which is described as being massive. We still don't get more than a glimpse of what the factory is like or contains. While in space, the President expresses some racist undertones, specifically against the Chinese mocking names such as "Wong" and even speech using the word 'tlain' for 'train'. It also introduced difficult topics like abuse of the Oopma Loompas that basically serve as Guinea pigs for Wonka's new inventions. These topics were difficult to discuss with a curious 6 year old, but we clearly had to address these deep issues as he raised inquiries. That said, I would suggest a read-ahead to be prepared to handle these types of topics which we implemented as part of completing the book. Personally think some of these topics are more mature than an 8 year old reader. Word selection and readability not concepts, 8+ does track.
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I have a 6 year old that is Charlie Bucket obsessed - so naturally after reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, watching the movie and the classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, we moved on to this second book. It starts off extremely slow and most of the setting is outer space, not the factory which is described as being massive. We still don't get more than a glimpse of what the factory is like or contains. While in space, the President expresses some racist undertones, specifically against the Chinese mocking names such as "Wong" and even speech using the word 'tlain' for 'train'. It also introduced difficult topics like abuse of the Oopma Loompas that basically serve as Guinea pigs for Wonka's new inventions. These topics were difficult to discuss with a curious 6 year old, but we clearly had to address these deep issues as he raised inquiries. That said, I would suggest a read-ahead to be prepared to handle these types of topics which we implemented as part of completing the book. Personally think some of these topics are more mature than an 8 year old reader. Word selection and readability not concepts, 8+ does track.
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