Printed offset on archival Cougar Natural. New exclusive introduction by Donald Sturrock, author of the critically acclaimed biography of Roald Dahl. 1986 reply letter from Roald Dahl to Paul Suntup. Over 60 pages of bonus content including deleted chapters, an alternate ending, manuscript pages and handwritten notes from early drafts. 72 additional illustrations from the artists who have illustrated Charlie and the Chocolate Factory through the years: Joseph Schindelman, Faith Jaques, Michael Foreman and Quentin Blake. Full color throughout with over 50 color illustrations by Quentin Blake. Dust jacket resembling Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight candy bar wrapper (the only edition featuring the dust jacket). Full cloth, smyth-sewn binding with embossed cover.
Bonus content includes lost chapters never included in the published book, pages of manuscript found on the authors estate, samples of illustrations by four artists through the history of this book and more.
The drawings leave space for imagination, enticing the mind to work out the unsaid and the unrepresented - the figures, after all, are made up of mere scratches and outlines, at a safe distance from reality.Hardcover. The point of the illustrations in the book, then, is not just to guide the young reader along the text or present a visual manifestation of the actions taking place on the page. This could be the reason why these illustrations stick with readers - many others have illustrated the same books - in spite of the well-received film versions of Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But do Blake’s scarecrow-like figures with sharp edges and a sinister look tone down the menace in the tales or enhance it? Perhaps theirs was the right concoction Blake’s drawings complement Dahl’s imagination in a way that is rare. Whether it is The Twits, where a vicious married couple pull all kinds of deadly tricks on each other, or the retelling of Cinderella, in which the prince lops off the heads of the stepsisters, most of Dahl’s stories are pretty dark. This is hardly surprising for Dahl did not completely hold back the morbidity of his short stories and adult novels from his children’s books.
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