Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

 Title: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Author: Roald Dahl

Illustrator: Quentin Blake

Summary: The book picks up with Charlie, Willy Wonka picking up the rest of the family to go to their new home, the chocolate factory. The grandparents refuse to leave their bed, so they have to shove the whole bed into the flying escalator. While flying to the factory, one of the grandparents starts to have a panic attack, leaving the escalator unattended. This leads to the family going all the way up in space to a planet that just launched a secret space hotel created by the United States government. The government finds out that people are on the planet, and this leads them to think that the hotel is in danger. Charlie's family and Willy Wonka have to face creatures on the planet and try to get back to earth safely. After they figured out how to get home, they all packed in the elevator. Unfortunately, the elevator crashes into the factory while returning home. This leads to the grandparents feeling unwell, so Wonka gives them a pill that makes people turn younger. The pill doesn't work effectively, making the grandparents turn into babies! After fixing the factory and grandparents, the story ends with them receiving a letter from the president asking them to come for dinner.

In my opinion, I didn't enjoy reading this book. I was looking forward to reading the second book in the series because I enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but it was non-enjoyable for me. It was one of those books that were just hard for me to finish. I would still have this in my classroom library because some students might love it just as much as the first book. Unfortunately, I rate this a 2/5.