2017-01-21 Sat

“Everything in this room is eatable, even ‘I'm’ eatable! But that is called ‘cannibalism,’ my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.”– Willy Wonka.
Roald Dahl, a truly amazing author, gave us one of our most beloved stories Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (17th January, 1964), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972) and was about to write the 3rd story in the series Charlie in the White House but just wrote one chapter of it. The story was inspired by Cadbury and Rowntree, England’s two largest chocolate factories’ attempts to send spies to steal each other’s recipes.

The story is about Charlie Bucket, an 11-year-old poor boy living in a broken house with his parents and grandparents. His adventure starts when Willy Wonka, the best chocolate maker in the world and owner of the Wonka chocolate factory announces that he has hidden 5 golden tickets in Wonka bars and the kids who would find them would be given a tour of his chocolate factory along with one parent of theirs. Charlie finds a golden ticket and visits the factory along with his Grandpa Joe. The other kids are ejected from the factory in comical ways with Charlie winning the ultimate prize- Wonka’s chocolate factory.

The second story is continued from here; Charlie’s family along with their hut shifts to the Wonka factory and their amazing adventures inside a glass elevator after Charlie’s Grandma Josephine gets scared and doesn’t allow Wonka to turn the directions thus causing them to enter the orbit around the Earth and here they save The President of United States and his space shuttle who later invites them to the White House; thus the 3rd incomplete story of Charlie’s visit to the White House.

Royal Mail issued this 1st Class commemorative stamp for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on 10th January 2010.