Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - Book Review

After “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Dahl introduces a sequel that starts exactly where the first book left off. In “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, Mr. Wonka takes Charlie and his entire family into the glass elevator and brags about his marvelous inventions that seem to span the entire globe. 

Mr. Wonka hits the button that takes them to space in order to land through the rooftop into the chocolate factory. However, something goes wrong and Willy Wonka, as well as the entire Bucket family, finds themselves in a U.S Space Hotel. 

While Dahl’s imagination takes the readers on a unique adventure into outer space, it is overshadowed in comparison to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, when it comes to the depth, the strength of the characters and the mischievous deeds of the kids from the first book. Another issue that arises is that half the plot is set in space and the glass elevator; the readers do not get much of the chocolate factory or the Oompa Loompas.