The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets (17 page)
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Authors: Roald Dahl
Isn’t it amazing how much a book can change before it is published?
If you keep looking hard enough,
you might just find something new and
magical that has never been seen before.
Who knows? One day you may even
discover the secret of what it takes
to become as great a writer
as Roald Dahl!
Answers to Charlie’s Quiz
1
More than two hundred
2
Build him a chocolate palace
3
Through a special trap door in the wall
4
Because she chews a piece of the three-coursedinner chewing-gum
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Five
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Veruca Salt
7
She chews gum
8
Watching television
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A Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight
10
A tailcoat made of plum-colored velvet
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Underground
12
By waterfall
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He falls into the chocolate river and gets sucked up a pipe into the strawberry-flavored chocolate-coated fudge room
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An enormous hollowed-out boiled sweet
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The Inventing Room
16
The squirrels
17
It can go in any direction, and visit any room in the factory
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The elevator flies out through the roof of the factory
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About ten feet tall and thin as a wire
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The whole chocolate factory
Did you know that 10% of author royalties
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from this book go to help the work of the Roald Dahl charities?
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity
exists to make life better for seriously ill children because it believes that every child has the right to a marvellous life.
This marvellous charity helps thousands of children each year living with serious conditions of the blood and the brain—causes important to Roald Dahl in his lifetime—whether by providing nurses, equipment or toys for today’s children in the UK, or helping tomorrow’s children everywhere through pioneering research.
Can you do something marvellous to help others?
Find out how at
www.marvellouschildrenscharity.org
The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
, based in Great Missenden just outside London, is in the Buckinghamshire village where Roald Dahl lived and wrote. At the heart of the Museum, created to inspire a love of reading and writing, is his unique archive of letters and manuscripts. As well as two fun-packed biographical galleries, the Museum boasts an interactive Story Centre. It is a place for the family, teachers and their pupils to explore the exciting world of creativity and literacy.
www.roalddahlmuseum.org
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity is a registered charity no. 1137409
The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre is a registered charity no. 1085853
The Roald Dahl Charitable Trust is a registered charity that supports the work of RDMCC and RDMSC
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Donated royalties are net of commission
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For a complete list of this author’s books click here or visit
www.penguin.com/dahlchecklist
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
