quentin blake illustrations charlie and the chocolate factory

Here are a couple of different covers from Norway (the country where Roald Dahl was born): Some really cool special editions (my favorite is the slipcase boxed edition): Willy Wonka – published in 2001 – contains both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Glass Elevator:Ī couple of new covers for the 40th anniversary of the original book in 2004: The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. I’ve collected a bunch of his Chocolate Factory covers: The best-known illustrations for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, indeed for all of Roald Dahl’s books (and for many other authors as well!) have been drawn by Quentin Blake since 1998. Here are a few of the covers published in the next few years before Quentin Blake began drawing the pictures: The first edition illustrated by a different artist – Michael Foreman – was published in paperback in 1985. Joseph Schindelman made new drawings for the new edition. Even the money was changed (from pre-decimal to decimal currency). For one thing, the place the Oompa Loompas came from was changed from Africa to the imaginary Loompaland. The movie had already made some changes so Roald Dahl changed the book, too. Many people didn’t like this they thought it was racist. In the original book, the Oompa Loompa were described as African pygmies (small, weak people) who are paid in cacao beans, sing war-like songs, and let themselves be experimented on like laboratory animals.

In 1973, Roald Dahl re-wrote parts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He also started to write a third “Charlie” book ( Charlie in the White House) but quit after writing only one chapter. It was called Charlie and the Glass Elevator. The very next year (1972), Roald Dahl published a new book that continued the story of Charlie Bucket. The poster for the original movie looked like this: I still like the first version of the movie better than the one made five years ago with Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. I first saw this movie when I was a young boy living in Texas the thing that I remember most are the Oompa Loompas with the orange skin and green hair. It was called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and starred Gene Wilder. The two original covers (one hardcover, the other for the paperback) looked like this: That’s almost forty-six years ago! The drawings in that very first edition were by a man named Joseph Schindelman. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in America the year before I was born – way back in 1964.

Quentin blake illustrations charlie and the chocolate factory