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No time to go in, though! No time to go in!


LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES, it said on the next
door.
‘Lovely stuff, lickable wallpaper!’ cried Mr Wonka, rushing past.
‘It has pictures of fruits on it – bananas, apples, oranges, grapes,
pineapples, strawberries, and snozzberries…’
‘Snozzberries?’ said Mike Teavee.
‘Don’t interrupt!’ said Mr Wonka. ‘The wallpaper has pictures of
all these fruits printed on it, and when you lick the picture of a
banana, it tastes of banana. When you lick a strawberry, it tastes of
strawberry. And when you lick a snozzberry, it tastes just exactly
like a snozzberry…’
‘But what does a snozzberry taste like?’
‘You’re mumbling again,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘Speak louder next
time. On we go! Hurry up!’
HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS, it said on the next door.
‘Extremely useful in the winter,’ said Mr Wonka, rushing on. ‘Hot
ice cream warms you up no end in freezing weather. I also make hot
ice cubes for putting in hot drinks. Hot ice cubes make hot drinks
hotter.’
COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK, it said on the next door.
‘Ah, my pretty little cows!’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘How I love those
cows!’
‘But why can’t we see them?’ asked Veruca Salt. ‘Why do we have
to go rushing on past all these lovely rooms?’
‘We shall stop in time!’ called out Mr Wonka. ‘Don’t be so madly
impatient!’
FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS, it said on the next door.
‘Oh, those are fabulous!’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘They fill you with
bubbles, and the bubbles are full of a special kind of gas, and this
gas is so terrifically lifting that it lifts you right off the ground just
like a balloon, and up you go until your head hits the ceiling – and
there you stay.’

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