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  • Published: 22 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9780241803622
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $24.99

Penguin Readers Level 4: Roald Dahl Wonka (ELT Graded Reader)

Abridged Edition



Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

Wonka, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Young Willy Wonka’s journey to becoming the famous chocolatier of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not easy. Some people will do anything to stop him! Luckily, Willy has the help of his friends. Based on the film Wonka, directed by Paul King, who created the story and wrote the screenplay with Simon Farnaby.

  • Published: 22 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9780241803622
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $24.99

About the authors

Sibéal Pounder

Sibéal Pounder is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the much-loved children’s fiction series Witch Wars, Bad Mermaids and Neon's Secret UNIverse, and the Christmas hit Tinsel. She has also written Beyond Platform 13, the sequel to Eva Ibbotson’s The Secret of Platform 13 and the globally bestselling novelisation of the film Wonka. Her World Book Day book Bad Mermaids was a Sunday Times Bestseller, and Witch Wars was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award.

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.