Roald Dahl : Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator

"Last time we saw Charlie, he was riding high above his home town in the Great Glass Lift. Only a short while before, Mr Wonka had told him that the whole gigantic fabulous Chocolate Factory was his...." Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to claim his prize, travelling by an extraordinary new means of transport - a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise, Charlie and his family find themselves orbiting the Earth.