Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket #1)

by Roald Dahl

It seemed doubtful whether he could go on much longer like this without becoming dangerously ill.

And now, very calmly, with that curious wisdom that seems to come so often to small children in times of hardship, he began to make little changes here and there in some of the things that he did, so as to save his strength.

stepped off

‘She wants a good kick in the pants,’

beany!’

WHIPPED CREAM,

‘You’re one yourself!’

then he skipped across to one of the machines and turned half a dozen knobs this way and that;

trailing

‘Snozzberries?’

tonic

thrown

sizzled

‘I think you’ve gone just a shade too far this time, I do indeed.

Over she toppled, into the hole head first, screeching like a parrot.

LOLLIES

slanty

dazzlingly bright and dazzlingly white

screwed up

lixivated,

in a twink