Never too old for children's books

By Nell Minow
Special to the Tribune
Published July 26, 2005

This story contains corrected material, published July 28, 2005.

Charlie Bucket is still finding the golden ticket for a tour of Willie Wonka's candy factory, 40 years after Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was originally published. A new anniversary edition of the book is out in time for the release of the second movie version. It holds up very well, though the movie understandably updates Mike Teevee's obsession from television shows to video games and the Oompa Loompas are not African (as in the book) or dark orange (as in the first movie), but computer-generated duplicates of one actor (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).