* Charlie and The Chocolate Factory  40th anniversary edition   Roald Dahl  1964

Charlie and The Chocolate factory is a classic novel for any age.  This particular edition of the book was a very long picture book, it had fantastic illustrations and made the wonderful world of willy wanka come alive.  The story is excellent for any age, but it best suited for 3rd through 5th grades when their reading skills have advanced and reading long stories is not a problem.  The story is centered around a young poor boy named Charlie who lives in his poor home with his mom dad and two sets of grandparents.  As a birthday present his parents use their last coins to buy him a chocolate bar, and hidden inside of his bar is a golden ticket that gets him into a very secret tour of the chocolate factory owned by willy wanka.  Charlie takes his grandfather as his tour mate and gets into a strange and fantastic world of candy with the eccentric Mr. Wanka.  There are other children who get the lucky ticket too, but all of those families cheat to get their ticket.  Those families are all well off and can buy more than one candy bar, as opposed to Charlie whom is dirt poor and gets his by chance alone.  Inside of the factory strange situations occur due to the behaviors of the bratty participants and their parents.  Charlie and his grandfather are the only ones who listen to Mr. Wanka and are grateful for the chance to be in such a honorary place. 

This book is fantasy, and is a great read.  The wonderful world of willy wanka is any candy lovers fantasy and by far the greatest fantasy for children ever told.