This book is one of my favorites, and I waited a long time to find the magic in literature it (magic found, after years of waiting, with Harry Potter!). If you want to smell the marshmallow tickle your nostrils, if you feel to taste a chocolate bar, then open this book - it's like candy, delicious. As often with Roal Dahl, children have a small side "Oliver Twist" (that is, they are poor and - in many cases, but not here - orphans), and find themselves faced with extraordinary situations that Miyazaki would not have denied. So read carefully. (But I would not advise its sequel, "Charlie and the great glass elevator" so passionately because I found it disappointing. Also, the Tim Burton film does not really manages to make magic this book - but it was impossible anyway)!
