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  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

  • By: Roald Dahl
  • Narrated by: Douglas Hodge
  • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (426 ratings)

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

By: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Douglas Hodge
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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

‘Don’t you worry about a little thing like that!’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘My great glass elevator is ready for anything!’

This edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, is perfect for Dahl fans old and new.

So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers . . .

The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions of Dahl’s books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions, aimed at newly independent young listeners.

©2014 Roald Dahl (P)2014 Penguin Audio

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Very good.

The story was grate, I liked the narrator a lot.
I liked when the vicious knids were burning up and everything was going sizzle sizzle😄😄

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A bit about my thoughts on the book

I like mr wonka reading the recipe for wonka vite. And when the 3 old ones finally got out of bed to go to the White House

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AMAZING

I loved it sooooooo much especially as a follow up of Charlie and the chocolate factory
and I was Mesmerised by the elevator going into SPACE.

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Skipping parts of the story

While listening - parts of the story are being skipped. It seems that chunks of the story are being left out.

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Good book, but disappointing ending

Good everything, but disappointing ending because it feels very VERY unfinished as the book was amazing please someone take over!

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The Best Roald Dahl book

Very funny and enjoyable to listen to. I really did not want it to end.

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🤨😲🤩🥳🤯🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩

This book is the best book in the whole wide world! It’s amazing 🤩 I hope Roald Dahl made a lot of money from this book because this book is epic 🥇🎖🏅🏆💎 good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing awesome awesome awesome hooray!

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I loved it 😊

I think it was really amazing it felt like it was real
The story was really good 👍🏻


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brilliant book 📖

brilliant book 📖 injoy listen to the book 📖 and brilliant performance and brilliant stories lines and thank you for writing the book 😎

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book was great

loved it so much I wanted to write about it, it was a great book.

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