The Willy Wonka thing is being taken quite seriously here. Even more so as we didn’t realise there was a channel five weekend going on at the same time as we were watching the movies on dvd! We watched James and the giant peach on Saturday and then I bought Willy Wonka cheap on dvd (presumable due to the new movie being released soon and this one about to be defunct) which has been watched ever since. Probably for the best though as I don’t know what he would have thought to The Witches. I believe we have Matilda kicking around on video somewhere and I know we have several of the books from charity shops.
Davies wants to make a model of the chocolate factory which if we end up staying in like I plan to Thursday and Friday (whilst I run up and down the stairs tending to my ailing husbands every whim!) we might do in an ambitious way with papier mache or something! I’ve turned up this site during some googling which might also have some interesting stuff to do on it.
I remember borrowing a massive heavy hardcopy book of James… from the library when I was about ten. It got renewed about four times while I read and reread it several times and learnt by heart the poem (song in the film):
For dinner on my birthday, shall I tell you what I chose?
Hot noodles made from poodles on a slice of garden hose
And a rather smelly jelly made from armadillo’s toes
The jelly is delicious, but you have to hold your nose!
from which I can quite possibly trace my love of nonsensical poetry 😉
I like nonsense poems too. When I was a child, we had a much-loved dog-eared book of lots of them, not sure if they were all by Edward Lear, but definitely some of them were.
Not sure if F would find Chocolate Factory a bit scary, still. How does Scarlett do with it?
Comment by Ali — 26 July 2005 @ 10:21 am
Alex an Marcus enoyed charlie and the chocolate factory. We read it a few months ago now. Having said that, Alex didn’t listen to lots and pottered round while I read it.
Comment by Kirsty — 26 July 2005 @ 10:58 am
The candyman can…..and I didn’t google (for once).
Comment by Chris — 26 July 2005 @ 11:47 am
Nic, have you got any of the Horrible Histories cds yet? I think they would tickle your nonsensical funny bone too. Terry Deary is very funny, imo. Mind you, anything for the fifth/sixth/seventh/millionth time starts to get a bit wearing …
Looking forward to the chocolate factory model 😉
Personally I always preferred the Great Glass Elevator to the first book, can’t think why now, I will have to re-read … oh, and look out on the Film Ed. website too, I had an email the other day that said they were oging to be producing some chocolate factory resources to go with the new film …
Comment by Sarah — 26 July 2005 @ 11:49 am
Any excuse for chocolate consumption :-)! I have a sweet making book somewhere if you fancy some cookery.
Comment by Roslyn — 26 July 2005 @ 1:08 pm
the horrible histories cds are in my amazon basket ticked as buy later 😉
We’ve got an usborne sweets book somewhere Ros, but if it is not the same one then yes please – that would be a good activity for quiet days at home this week I reckom to make it really edible 🙂
I recall really liking the great glass elevator more too Sarah, I think it appealed even more to my sense of the ridiculous that all those people, plus a bed were crammed in racing about the place 🙂
Scarlett sort of ignores the storyline really, she likes the oompa loompas and the songs and does some great impressions of the spoilt brats (although that may have nothing to do with the film!;-) ) – we could stick it on next time you come over Ali and see what she thinks if you like.
Comment by Nic — 26 July 2005 @ 3:57 pm
Nic, Kelloggs cereal have abridged versions of 6 of them at the moment – worth a job lot of cereal just to save yourself all that money in the future 😉
Comment by Sarah — 26 July 2005 @ 9:59 pm
come on, I’ve seen the photos, waiting for the blog! Looks like you had a fab time – and rofl @ the cleavage and the self timer shots!
Comment by Sarah — 27 July 2005 @ 1:20 pm