Chocolate with the holiday. Chocolate is an acceptable gift on other holidays and on occasions such as birthdays. Many confectioners make holiday-specific chocolate candies. Chocolate Easter eggs or rabbits and Santa Claus figures are two examples. Such confections can be solid, hollow, or filled with sweets or fondant. Chocolate has been the center of several successful book and film adaptations. In 1964, Roald Dahl published a children's novel titled "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". The novel centers on a poor boy named Charlie Bucket who takes a tour through the greatest chocolate factory in the world, owned by Willy Wonka. Two
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of the most common books that UK adults had read as children, after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", and "The Wind in The Willows". Groups who have praised the book include: In the 2012 survey published by "SLJ", a monthly with primarily US audience, "Charlie" was the second of four books by Dahl among the so-called Top 100 Chapter Books, one more than any other writer. Although the book has always been popular and considered a children's classic by many literary critics, a number of prominent individuals have spoken unfavorably of the