Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by the British writer Roald Dahl. It features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of an eccentric chocolatier named Willy Wonka.
![Costumes of Willy Wonka (from Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and the Hatter (from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) in London. A 2015 UK poll ranked them the top two children's books.[7]](https://seat-sight-2piztx2z4-futura-labs.vercel.app/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fd%2Fd6%2FMCM_2013_-_Willy_Wonka_%2526_Mad_Hatter_%25288978291669%2529.jpg%2F500px-MCM_2013_-_Willy_Wonka_%2526_Mad_Hatter_%25288978291669%2529.jpg&w=640&q=75)
