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  What is

  Spotty Powder anyway?!

  “Spotty Powder!” exclaimed Mr. Wonka, beaming at the company. “There it is! That’s it! Fantastic stuff!”

  “It looks like sugar,” said Miranda Piker.

  “It’s meant to look like sugar,” Mr. Wonka said. “And it tastes like sugar. But it isn’t sugar. Oh, dear me, no.”

  “Then what is it?” asked Miranda Piker, speaking rather rudely.

  “That door over there,” said Mr. Wonka, turning away from Miranda and pointing to a small red door at the far end of the room, “leads directly down to the machine that makes the powder. Twice a day, I go down there myself to feed it. But I’m the only one. Nobody ever comes with me.”

  They all stared at the little door on which it said MOST SECRET—KEEP OUT.

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  Esio Trot

  Fantastic Mr. Fox

  George’s Marvelous Medicine

  The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

  Going Solo

  James and the Giant Peach

  The Magic Finger

  Matilda

  The Minpins

  The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets

  Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes

  The Twits

  The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

  The Witches

  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

  ROALD

  DAHL

  The MISSING GOLDEN

  Ticket

  AND OTHER SPLENDIFEROUS SECRETS

  ILLUSTRATED BY QUENTIN BLAKE

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  First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd, 2010

  First published in the United States of America by Puffin Books, 2010

  Reissued in this edition by Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2013

  Text and archive photographs copyright © Road Dahl Nominee Ltd, 2010

  Illustrations copyright © Quentin Blake, 2010

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  Extracts taken from: The Roald Dahl Diary 1992, first published 1991; Charlie’s Secret Chocolate Box, first published 1997; D is for Dahl, first published 2004; The Dahlmanac, first published 2006; Dahlmanac 2, first published 2007; More About Boy, first published 2008—all published in Puffin Books; Roald Dahl’s Cookbook, published by Penguin Books 1996; “Spotty Powder,” first published in Puffin Post, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1973; “Strawberry-flavored Chocolate-coated Fudge” and “Butterscotch” from Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes, published by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1994.

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  Dahl, Roald

  The missing golden ticket and other splendiferous secrets / Roald Dahl; illustrated by Quentin

  Blake.

  p. cm.

  ISBN: 978-1-101-63626-8

  1. Dahl, Roald—Juvenile literature.

  2. Authors, English—20th century—Biography—Juvenile literature.

  I. Blake, Quentin, ill. II. Title

  PR6054.A35Z467 2010

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  2010021712

  Text design by Dan Newman

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  Table of Contents

  Roald Dahl loved secrets

  Did you know…

  How Roald Dahl started writing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  Roald Dahl’s Year

  Roald Dahl’s January

  The Missing Children

  Chocolate! Everything you always wanted to know

  Roald Dahl’s February

  The Whipple-Scrumpets

  Mr. Wonka’s chocolate Factory Recipes

  Roald Dahl’s Favorite Things

  Roald Dahl’s March

  Meet Quentin Blake

  What Roald Dahl thought of Quentin Blake

  Ideas Books

  Roald Dahl’s April

  Roald Dahl’s School Reports

  Roald Dahl’s May

  Roald’s Family Holidays Spring

  Roald Dahl’s June

  A Missing Chapter

  Spotty Powder

  Roald Dahl’s July

  What Roald Dahl thought about chocolate

  Weird and wonderful Roald Dahl facts

  He once had a tame magpie.

  Roald’s Family Holidays Summer

  Roald Dahl’s August

  More things that Roald Dahl liked

  Advice from Roald Dahl

  Roald Dahl’s September

  Roald Dahl’s Adventures

  Mr. Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Recipes

  Roald Dahl’s October

  Charlie’s Quiz

  Roald Dahl’s November

  Roald Dahl’s Secret Writing Tips

  Roald Dahl’s December

  Charlie’s Chocolate Shop

  Secrets are everywhere.

  Answers to Charlie’s Quiz

  Roald Dahl loved secrets.

  This was his advice from The Minpins: “Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most likely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

  Did you know…

  * Augustus Gloop was originally named Augustus Pottle?

  * Willy Wonka’s Oompa-Loompas were going to be called Whipple-Scrumpets?

  * Cocoa pods are as big as rugby balls.

  * Roald Dahl wanted to get rid of history teachers and have chocolate teachers instead.

  These are just some of the splendiferous secrets you’ll discover in this delicious little treasure trove of Roald Dahl fun facts and surprises. You’ll also meet Quentin Blake, find out how to make strawberry-flavored chocolate-coated fudge (YUM!), sneak a peek at Roald Dahl’s school rep