New Chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

Over the weekend, our Internet surfing (between bouts of reading, of course) yielded something cooler than a cat jumping into cardboard boxes! A new, PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED, chapter from Roald Dahl’s beloved classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Misbehaving ticket winners always get what’s coming to them, this time in the Vanilla Fudge Room…

Check out the full chapter over at the Guardian, but we’ll leave you with a sample below! Also, be on the look out for another post celebrating Roald Dahl in the next couple weeks. You won’t want to miss it!

“The remaining eight children, together with their mothers and fathers, were ushered out into the long white corridor once again.

‘I wonder how Augustus Pottle and Miranda Grope are feeling now?’ Charlie Bucket asked his mother.

‘Not too cocky, I shouldn’t think’ Mrs Bucket answered. ‘Here – hold on to my hand, will you, darling. That’s right. Hold on tight and try not to let go. And don’t you go doing anything silly in here, either, you understand, or you might get sucked up into one of those dreadful pipes yourself, or something even worse maybe. Who knows?’

Little Charlie took a tighter hold of Mrs Bucket’s hand as they walked down the long corridor. Soon they came to a door on which it said:

THE VANILLA FUDGE ROOM…”