You’re Never Too Old for Children’s Books

Charlie Bucket is still finding the golden ticket for a tour of Willie Wonka’s candy factory, almost 50 years after Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was originally published. A new movie prequel is in the works, starring Timothee Chalamet.

The book first came out just as I was proudly using my brand-new adult library card and thinking of myself as much too old to check out books from the children’s room. But my younger sister’s copy proved as impossible to resist as a Wonka bar, and it taught me a lesson I have been grateful for ever since —…