The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets
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Authors: Roald Dahl
What is
Spotty Powder anyway?!
“Spotty Powder!” exclaimed Mr. Wonka, beaming at the company. “There it is! That’s it! Fantastic stuff!”
“It looks like sugar,” said Miranda Piker.
“It’s meant to look like sugar,” Mr. Wonka said. “And it tastes like sugar. But it isn’t sugar. Oh, dear me, no.”
“Then what is it?” asked Miranda Piker, speaking rather rudely.
“That door over there,” said Mr. Wonka, turning away from Miranda and pointing to a small red door at the far end of the room, “leads directly down to the machine that makes the powder. Twice a day, I go down there myself to feed it. But I’m the only one. Nobody ever comes with me.”
They all stared at the little door on which it said MOST SECRET—KEEP OUT.
Puffin Books by Roald Dahl
The BFG
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Danny the Champion of the World
Dirty Beasts
The Enormous Crocodile
Esio Trot
Fantastic Mr. Fox
George’s Marvelous Medicine
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Going Solo
James and the Giant Peach
The Magic Finger
Matilda
The Minpins
The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes
The Twits
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
The Witches
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
ROALD
DAHL
The MISSING GOLDEN
Ticket
AND OTHER SPLENDIFEROUS SECRETS
ILLUSTRATED BY QUENTIN BLAKE
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First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd, 2010
First published in the United States of America by Puffin Books, 2010
Reissued in this edition by Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2013
Text and archive photographs copyright © Road Dahl Nominee Ltd, 2010
Illustrations copyright © Quentin Blake, 2010
All rights reserved
Extracts taken from:
The Roald Dahl Diary 1992
, first published 1991;
Charlie’s Secret Chocolate Box
, first published 1997;
D is for Dahl
, first published 2004;
The Dahlmanac
, first published 2006;
Dahlmanac 2
, first published 2007;
More About Boy
, first published 2008—all published in Puffin Books;
Roald Dahl’s Cookbook
, published by Penguin Books 1996; “Spotty Powder,” first published in
Puffin Post
, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1973; “Strawberry-flavored Chocolate-coated Fudge” and “Butterscotch” from
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes
, published by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1994.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Dahl, Roald
The missing golden ticket and other splendiferous secrets / Roald Dahl; illustrated by Quentin
Blake.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-101-63626-8
1. Dahl, Roald—Juvenile literature.
2. Authors, English—20th century—Biography—Juvenile literature.
I. Blake, Quentin, ill. II. Title
PR6054.A35Z467 2010
823’.914—dc22
[B]
2010021712
Text design by Dan Newman
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Roald Dahl loved secrets
.
This was his advice from
The Minpins
: “Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most likely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
Did you know
. . .
* Augustus Gloop was originally named Augustus Pottle?
*
Willy Wonka’s Oompa-Loompas were going to be called Whipple-Scrumpets?
* Cocoa pods are as big as rugby balls.
*
Roald Dahl wanted to get rid of history teachers and have chocolate teachers instead
.
These are just some of the splendiferous secrets you’ll discover in this delicious little treasure trove of Roald Dahl fun facts and surprises. You’ll also meet Quentin Blake, find out how to make strawberry-flavored chocolate-coated fudge (YUM!), sneak a peek at Roald Dahl’s school reports and much, much more.
“
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
took me a terrible long time to write. The first time I did it, I got everything wrong. I wrote a story about a little boy who was going round a chocolate factory and he accidentally fell into a big tub of melted chocolate and got sucked into the machine that made chocolate figures and he couldn’t get out. It was a splendid big chocolate figure, a chocolate boy the same size as him. And it was Easter time, and the
figure was put in a shop window, and in the end a lady came in and bought it as an Easter present for her little girl, and carried it home. On Easter Day, the little girl opened the box with her present in it, and took it out and then she decided to eat some of it. She would start with the head, she thought. So she broke off the nose, and when she saw a real human nose sticking out underneath and two big bright human eyes staring at her through the eye-holes in the chocolate, she got a nasty shock. And so it went on. “But the story wasn’t good enough. I rewrote it, and rewrote it, and the little tentacles kept shooting out from my
head, searching for new ideas, and at last one of them came back with Mr. Willy Wonka and his marvelous chocolate factory and then came Charlie and his parents and grandparents and the Golden Tickets and the nasty children, Violet Beauregarde and Veruca Salt and all the rest of them.