I worked in a daycare and this was one of the most popular books. As teachers we were requested to read it daily, but I never got tired of it. The wonderful pictures and funny storyline make this book just a great deal of fun! I recommend it highly for children and for parents!

I think that Slim & Jim, written and illustrated by Richard Egielski, is a great book because it talks about a special friendship. Even though it is about a mouse and a rat, it teaches about stopping people from acting in the same way, for instance like white people acted against black people. It is about a rat named Slim who saves a mouse named Jim. Jim falls into the water, and Slim saves his life. The mice don't like the rats in this book, but Jim ignores what others say about Slim because the others don't know Slim well enough to judge him. Jim and Slim become friends for life, and that changes what the other mice think about Slim. I think this is a good book because it tells you that "You shouldn't judge people before you get to know them." I think the illustrations are great, too! I think everyone would be interested in Slim & Jim.

This is definetely a book for magic lovers. It was hard to put down once I had started. I think Rose Rita is a very practical girl and smart. I say this book is open for any age.

Fun book, great for a younger audience looking for something different.

I remembered this book from when I was a kid, so I bought a copy of it for the nostalgia.. It was still such a great fantasy book! I would recommend it to any child of today.. forget Harry Potter, this is the original!

I saw it browsing in a book store, read it, and really enjoyed it. It's a refreshing new children's adventure story, which subtly hints at how it's nice to be yourself (in the end).

This is a great book that's really being overlooked. After a young grasshopper's father gets into an accident at the Tomato Plant, he is forced to get a job. Working with some magic-working moths, he learns enough magic to change his shape. He quits working with them to go into business doing street perfomances. When the disgruntled moths come after him, the magical battle begins!!

With really cute pictures and lively prose, Jazper delivers the goods.

My sons listened to this book intently several times. It tells the tale of a group of tub people that live in a bathroom finding another of their kind that somehow had gotten under the radiator a long while ago, and bringing him back to "life". He is the grandfather of the group, and the grandmother is very happy to have him back with her. The pictures are sort of mystical and mellow. While this is an interesting concept (we've all had members of our toy family go missing for a long time and then be found and brought back to the fold) I found it a bit of an odd story for kids. My older son was made quite nervous by it, asking "was the grandfather DEAD? How did he come back from dead?". He was also bothered by the fact the grandfather had lost an eye. If you think your kids might be made nervous by concepts like that, you might want to avoid this or at least read it through first yourself!

This book, along with The Tub People, charmed my daughter, now 9, from the time she was a toddler. The illustrations are so carefully rendered you feel you are really a part of the tub family. I don't know what exactly it is that captivates my daughter so, but something is definitely different about this book. It could be that all of us remember the joy of finding a once-beloved toy long lost and forgotten. We always enjoy coming to the end when the grandmother dances with the tub grandfather around the hooked rug...something about that scene is incredibly touching.

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
By Roald Dahl

Just imagine that your have just found out that a famous chocolate maker of you town has a contest to find five different golden tickets, inside a candy bar rapper. If you find a ticket you win a tour of the giant Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. While you are on the tour things happen to the children like getting sucked up a tube of chocolate, chewing a piece of special gum that turns you into a big giant blueberry, getting attacked by squirrels throwing nuts at you, and being sucked into a television that's chocolate and getting turned into a midget. And the whole time you must not touch or eat anything that is not tested and be fully aware of everything.

For Charlie Bucket this was an extraordinary visit to the biggest chocolate factory in the world, in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, By Roald Dahl.

In this book Charlie Bucket and his family including his mom and dad and his 4 grandparents, are starving, poor, and live in a very small house with only a kitchen and one bedroom, which everyone shared. As Charlie is walking home from school one day in the cold winter he found a dollar bill on the sidewalk. He decides to go to a candy store to by a chocolate bar and run home to give the rest of the money to his mom and dad to by food. Instead the chocolate bar he had was so good he had to have another. As soon as he opened the second chocolate bar he saw a flash of gold and he stood there amazed he had found the last golden ticket!

In Charlie and The Chocolate Factory weird things pop-up all the time. One incident was this: Charlie was the last person to stay for the tour, and Willy Wonka had a glass elevator that could go every where from up, to down, to sideways, even diagionally. Charlie didn't know it but Willy Wonka had a special trip for him. They walked into the elevator terribly frightened. Willy Wonka pressed a button that said, "UP AND OUT." And suddenly the elevator speed upwards-no twistings or turnings and kept going faster and faster. Suddenly they heard a lout crash and saw wood flying all over. And soon enough they saw the whole town under their feet. (Remember it was a glass elevator). It felt to them like they weren't standing on anything. Since it was going so fast Grandpa Joe asked how fast it was going, and Willy Wonka repeated, "Candy power! One million candy power!"

If you enjoy fiction stories that are filled with comedy and imagination his book Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is for you.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The book I read was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. The year it was published was in 1964. The main characters are Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Agustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee. This book is about Charlie Bucket who wants to get a golden ticket in a Wonka bar so that he and four other children can go inside Wonka's factory. Unfortunatly, he can't even afford a candy bar! So one day when he was walking down the street he found some money in a gutter, which was enough to buy a candy bar! So he bought a Wonka bar and what was inside? A golden ticket! This was the last golden ticket. Now he gets to go inside Wonka's factory! The moral of the story is to live your dreams and don't give up. Charlie learns that being spoiled gets you nowhere, because all the other children get such as shrunk or sucked up a pipe. Charlie changes because he gets to own a big chocolate factory in the end. I gave this book a five out of five.

This book is so delicious I just want to eat it! "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" might be in many people's eyes a story about morality but to me, it's a story about children and their love of all things sweet, sticky and delicious. Charlie Bucket is the delightful boy (who is so poor all he gets to eat is cabbage soup) who finds a golden ticket in a chocolate bar he buys with money he finds in the street. This ticket entitles him and a companion to enter the wonderful world of Mr. Willy Wonka, the most famous and mysterious chocolate maker that the universe has ever known. Other competition winners include such heinous but wonderfully over the top characters like Augustus Gloop, the greediest boy in the world, and Veruca Salt, a spoilt brat whose father buys 10,000 chocolate bars so she can win a golden ticket. These greedy children and their frightful companions get their come-uppance in various hilarious ways that will have you spluttering with laughter with every page that you turn. Dahl's most famous creation in this book though are the Oompa-Loompas, a race of small people that Mr. Wonka has saved from extinction in the days when he traveled the world. This is a glorious, glorious book, filled with amazing characters, incredible sweets such as the everlasting gobstopper for the child with limited pocket money, and the chewing gum that that is a whole three course meal in itself. Your mouth will be watering throughout the story, and the river of chocolate will make you drool a waterfall. A scrumptious book for everyone no matter what their age.

This story has made a lasting impression on my three year old son. For the last six months my son points at every drain we see...at the YMCA, bathrooms, and places I never knew had drains, and says, "There is a drain. That's where the tub child went." I know I am probably planting seeds for my son's future therapist but regardless this really is a wonderful book.

This book was one of my favorites as a child. It has many different characters. That is one of the things that I enjoyed about it. I took a liking to the main character. In such a short story, it has its ups and downs. It took place where all little kids love to play....in the tub. Parts of the story made me worry, and parts made me really happy. There was also a little suspense added to it. I thought it was a great story. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good children's book.

My daughters, aged 14 and 6, LOVED this story. The oldest reread it to her sister many times when we had it from the library - they both asked me to find it and buy it for them. I'm getting each of them a copy. They both have played with their own Tub People for years and loved the thought that there were Tub People everywhere. You just have to reassure them at the scary part that their toys (and their bodies) can't fit down the drain at your house.

This book had a very imaginative and fun beginning and middle. But then it just abruptly ended and was over. My 5 year old boy likes long chapter books, and then he likes short books like this to be read over and over again. He hasn't wanted to read this one again.

A janitor named Al and his faithful friend, a dog named Eddie live in New York in a cramped, rather dingy apartment. They are pretty sick of it and Eddie gripes about it to Al. One day they fall into a bit of magic and escape the world that they are tired of and end up on a flying island in the air that is populated by all kinds of fantastic tropical birds. They feel like they are in paradise but, of course, they find out that paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be.
What I love about this book is the wonderful illustrations, full of bright colors and gentle humour, and the dialog that sounds just the way a janitor from the West Side of New York City might. I love the way Al and Eddie learn to make their lives better by the end of the story. What I don't particularly like is that the "moral" seems to say that you really shouldn't dream of paradise on earth because it's not okay to kick back and luxuriate and live in leisure because that's just not naural for human beings. It's just too preachy and simplistic. Why can't magic take you to paradise and it all turns out GREAT? Why do we have to feel like if we're not struggling along and doing what we've always done, then it's going to come back and haunt us eventually? I did like the way the book emphasized how precious friendship is and how lost we are without it.
This is a book for little ones and they will love the pictures and characters. They will love, as I do, the friendship between Al and Eddie. It got the 1987 Caldecott medal for Illustrations for a reason! I think it's a good book but I was bummed that Al and Eddie couldn't have their cake and eat it, too. I mean if a giant tucan can hoist you aloft to a fantasy island, why can't the fantasy be perfect?!

Hey, Al, by Arthur Yorinks and Richard Egielski, is a story about Al and Eddie, the dog, going to paradise.
Al, a nice, quiet, janitor, lived in a small but very neat apartment on the West Side of New York City with his faithful dog, Eddie. They were always struggling. Eddie hoped for a house with a backyard.
All that changed one morning when Al was startled by a huge bird said, "tommorow I will bring you to paradise." The bird offers Al and Eddie a change. The next morning, both are ready and waiting in the bathroom.the bird carries them to the paradise.
The theme of this story is that "your own home is the best place to be." Al and Eddie were much happier in their own house than in the paradise. Everyone will like this book, because it has beautiful pictures and ideas.

The rhyme and story in this book are so much fun to read, they would keep young children asking to read it over and over. However, I do not feel I can use it in my classroom because of one illustration. A sexy blond is using her body to get what she wants from firemen-very inappropriate for young children! Bill Martin, please bring back your original version of this wonderful book.

My daughter checked this book out of the library and made me read it to her over and over again. I didn't see the appeal of this book! But she loved it. So for Fire Safety week with my preschoolers, we read this book. They loved it! My god, they made me read it over and over and over again. They followed me around the room and made me read it. I still don't see the appeal. But kids love this book. Each Mrs. is on the proceeding page, they tell the story of a fire in an apartment building. It takes a bit of explaining for 4 yr olds to get the concept of a flaming cake, but they got it. They even counted the candles. The old lady is represented by about 30 candles---thanks to the author for that one!

I owned this book when i was a little girl and now that i have a son, i want him to be able to read it and know that females are not just a second class citizen and that they can hold positions that men are able to hold. This book also shows that you should not believe everything you see, there is probably something else going on if you dont see the whole picture.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka takes Charlie and his family on a trip through space in a glass elevator that launches off from the Chocolate factory. Along the way Charlie experiences more excitement and adventure in the Wacky Willy Wonka way. He encounters some Vermicious Knids that stretch their bodies to spell out mean messages. Wonka gives Charlies grandparents a Wonka-Vite pill that makes them twenty years younger. They mistakenly take too many and Grandpa George and Grandma Josephine become babies. ...I enjoyed this book because it is funny and at times it is very touching. This book and all the characters in it are unique and wacky. Especially Willy Wonka himself. It makes you use your imagination. Can you imagine The Vermicious Knids in outer space spelling the words like SCRAM by stretching and curving their bodies? I could.

My favorite part of this story was when they were flying through space on the glass elevator. When they encountered the Space Hotel U.S.A. how excited Charlie must have felt. I know how excited I felt when I went on a vacation and stayed at a hotel for the first time. I'm still not over it.

After the Prequel, Charlie and Mr. Wonka and the crew are left in the Great Glass Elevator. In the sequel, (they're still in the elevator,)they find the Grea Space Hoteland the Commuter Capsule in space. They decide to be th first ones to to enter the Space Hotel, so they go inside. Inside, they find the Vermicious Knids.(a kind of green-brown upside down eggs with eyes) So they scream run away back into the elevator. There are Knids everywhere! Even outside the Hotel! But fortunately, the Elevator is Knid-proof. The Elevator flies all the way around the world, but they end up where they left! They decide to save the Commuter capsule, so they hook onto it with Knid-proof rope, and fly back to the Earth, unhooking from the Capsule and the Elevator ends up in the Chocolate Factory. I liked this book alot bcause it's funny. Roald Dhal always writes funny, confusing, and imaginary books. I also liked his "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." (hint hint hint, READ THE BOOK!)

I was looking through the Amazon.com books section for children and young adults, searching for just-slightly-past-Christmas presents for my niece, when I made an amazing discovery. For 24 years I have wondered just how Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Willy Wonka and the rest got back to earth after the great glass elevator left the building, and suddenly a way to answer my questions was at hand! After buying "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" for my niece, I ordered "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" for myself. Once again Roald Dahl succeeded in creating a work so vivid that it creates a picture in your mind better than a movie (because you can go to the snack bar and not miss any action). This is a wonderful book for children with imagination (even the 35 year olds). If you've always wondered what happened next, this is a great way to answer those nagging questions.