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Happy International Book Day! I'm Jasmine and today I'm going to read the first chapter

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of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl. So chapter one, here comes Charlie.

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These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe

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and Grandma Josephine. And these two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs. Bucket.

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Their names are Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina. This is Mr. and Mrs. Bucket.

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Mr. and Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie. This is Charlie. How do you do?

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and how do you do and how do you do again he is pleased to meet you the whole of this family

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the six grown-ups count them and little charlie bucket lived together in a small wooden house

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on the edge of a great town here's the house the house wasn't nearly large enough for so many

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people, and life was extremely uncomfortable for them all. There were only two rooms in the place

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all together, and there was only one bed. The bed was given to the four old grandparents

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because they were so old and tired. They were so tired, they never got out of it.

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Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine on this side, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina on this side,

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Mr. and Mrs. Bucket and little Charlie Bucket slept in the other room upon mattresses on the

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floor. In the summertime this wasn't too bad but in the winter freezing cold droughts blew across

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the floor all night long and it was awful. There wasn't any question of them being able to buy a

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better house, or even one more bed to sleep in. They were far too poor for that. Mr. Bucket was

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the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long

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at a bench and screwed the little caps on the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes

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had been filled. But a toothpaste cap screwer is never paid very much money, and poor Mr. Bucket,

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however hard he worked and however fast he screwed on the caps, was never able to make enough to buy

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one half of the things that so large a family needed. There wasn't even enough money to buy

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proper food for them all. The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast,

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boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for dinner.

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Sundays were a bit better.

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They all looked forward to Sundays because then, although they had exactly the same,

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everyone was allowed a second helping.

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The buckets, of course, didn't starve, but every one of them,

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the two old grandfathers, the two old grandmothers, Charlie's father, Charlie's mother,

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and especially little Charlie himself, went about from morning till night with a horrible empty

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feeling in their tummies. Charlie felt it worst of all, and although his father and mother often

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went without their own share of lunch or supper so that they could give it to him, it still wasn't

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nearly enough for a growing boy. He desperately wanted something more filling and satisfying than

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cabbage and cabbage soup. The one thing he longed for more than anything else was chocolate. Walking

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to school in the mornings, Charlie could see great slabs of chocolate piled up high in the shop

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windows, and he would stop and stare and press his nose against the glass, his mouth watering like

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mad. Many times a day, he would see other children taking bars of creamy chocolate out of their

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out of their pockets and munching on them greedily. And that, of course, was pure torture.

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Only once a year on his birthday did Charlie Bucket ever get to taste a bit of chocolate.

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The whole family saved up their money for that special occasion. And when the great day arrived,

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Charlie was always presented with one small chocolate bar to eat all by himself. And each

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time he received it on those marvelous birthday mornings, he would place it carefully in a small

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wooden box that he owned and treasure it as though it were a bar of solid gold. And for the next few

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days, he would allow himself only to look at it, but never touch it. Then at last, when he could

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stand it no longer, he would peel back a tiny bit of the paper wrapping at one corner and expose a

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tiny bit of chocolate and then he would take a tiny nibble, just enough to allow the lovely

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sweet taste to spread out slowly over his tongue. The next day he would take another tiny nibble

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and so on and so on. And in this way, Charlie would make his six penny bar of birthday chocolate

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last him for more than a month. But I haven't yet told you about the one awful thing that

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tortured little Charlie, the lover of chocolate more than anything else. This thing for him was

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far, far worse than seeing slabs of chocolate in the shop windows or watching other children

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munching bars of creamy chocolate right in front of him. It was the most terrible,

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torturing thing you can imagine. And it was this. In the town itself, actually within sight

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of the house in which Charlie lived, there was an enormous chocolate factory. Just imagine that.

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and it wasn't simply an an ordinary enormous chocolate factory either it was the largest

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most famous in the whole world it was wonka's factory owned by a man called willie wonka

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the greatest inventor and maker of chocolates that there has ever been and what a tremendous

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marvelous place it is. It had huge iron gates leading into it and a high wall surrounding it

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and smoke belching from its chimneys and strange whizzing sounds coming from deep inside it.

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And outside the walls, for half a mile around every direction, the air was scented with the

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heavy, rich smell of melting chocolate. Twice on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket

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had to walk right past the gates of the factory, and every time he went by, he would begin to walk

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very, very slowly, and he would hold his nose high up in the air and take long, deep sniffs

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of a gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him. Oh, how he loved that smell. And oh,

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how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like.

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And that is the end of the first chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So if you

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want to find out if Charlie goes into the chocolate factory and what happens, you'll

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have to keep reading the rest of the book. Happy reading, everyone!