The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets (17 page)

Isn’t it amazing how much a book can change before it is published?

Secrets are everywhere.

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

5
Five

6
Veruca Salt

7
She chews gum

8
Watching television

9
A Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight

10
A tailcoat made of plum-colored velvet

11
Underground

12
By waterfall

13
He falls into the chocolate river and gets sucked up a pipe into the strawberry-flavored chocolate-coated fudge room

14
An enormous hollowed-out boiled sweet

15
The Inventing Room

16
The squirrels

17
It can go in any direction, and visit any room in the factory

18
The elevator flies out through the roof of the factory

19
About ten feet tall and thin as a wire

20
The whole chocolate factory

THERE’S MORE TO ROALD DAHL THAN GREAT STORIES. . .

Did you know that 10% of author royalties
^*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