Teo’s Splendiferous

Book review

The missing goldenticket and other splendiferous secrets Roald Dahl

This book is about a mixture of things: What Roald Dahl likes and does not like about different months, how he made the book “Charlie and the ChocolateFactory”, a bit about his life, and also a missing chapter of Charlie and theChocolate Factory. I personally really like the part about Roald Dahl’s lifebecause on his birthday when he was a teenager, he got some meccano and made a watercarrier that that is hooked over a wire. One day when Roald Dahl sees somebodywalking on their land, he pulls a string that lets its go and it drops waterall over the trespassers.

Inthis book you find out that originally Oompa Loompers from Charlie and theChocolate Factory were called ‘Whiple Scrumplets’, and I think this is a bettername. Also at first he wanted to have 9 naughty children winning golden ticketsbecause he really enjoyed describing them and the naughty things they did.

Atfirst Roald Dahl had many illustrators but when he found Quentin Blake he neverwanted anyone else. They were good friends and Roald thought it was amazing howfast Quentin could draw.

Thereis also a section on Roald Dahl’s school reports, which said he was very bad awriting because he always wrote the opposite of what he meant!