Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: Roald Dahl

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Eaten Alive: One chapter is called "Gobbled Up", in which several characters are gobbled up by the Vermicious Knids. It is not stated how they do this, as Knids do not have mouths, which makes it all the more frightening.

Mistaken for Spies: The elevator's passengers are first regarded as spies by the rest of the world and the bed is believed to be a bomb. Ultimately, after they help save the Space Hotel crew and guests from the actual aliens that turn out to be in the hotel, they are regarded as heroic astronauts rather than spies.

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Eureka!" Moment: Grandma Josephine wailing "Why can't we all go home?" triggers this for Willy Wonka when he can't figure out how to escape the chain of Vermicious Knids. Double-Meaning Title: The first chapter is titled "Mr. Wonka Goes Too Far", referencing both his fearless — and to the others, terrifying — decision to send the elevator absurdly high and his inability to stop it from going further up than he planned thanks to Grandma Josephine.

All four grandparents were said to be over 90 years old in the first book, but the three bedridden ones here are in their early 80s at most — which wouldn't be such a big error if it weren't so important to the second half. Also in James and the Giant Peach, the Centipede sarcastically mentions "skyhooks" as a possibility for hauling the peach out of the ocean, the answer Willy Wonka gives Grandma Josephine here when she asks what's keeping the Great Glass Elevator up. World of Pun: The book is filled with puns, such as the Chief Financial Advisor trying to balance the budget. (It kept falling off his head.) Plot Leveling: As the first book ends with Mr. Wonka having found an heir in Charlie and the boy and his family destined to live the good life in the factory, thus leaving the characters without any real needs, continuing their story requires throwing them into new adventures. So the Great Glass Elevator accidentally winds up in orbit, and they encounter killer aliens, and then the bedridden grandparents' stubborn refusal to get out of bed leads into the Wonka-Vite misadventure, which leads to the journey to Minusland...

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And the Adventure Continues: At the end, the gang is off to the White House to be hailed as heroes... Invisible Monsters: The Gnoolies of Minusland are invisible, inaudible insects. The only sign of their presence a human can feel is their bite, and once bitten, the victim is doomed to slowly be divided into more Gnoolies. No Seat Belts: Averted in the second half — when Mr. Wonka and Charlie head for Minusland in the Elevator, it turns out to have seats that fold out from the walls, complete with belts. It's surprising because up to this point in both books everyone using the Elevator stands (unless they're the bedridden grandparents, of course!) as if they are on a subway. Perhaps there wasn't enough room in the Elevator to put the seats down with all the other occupants? Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The US president still keeps his childhood nanny around, and even calls her 'Nanny', as well as a cat with a very frou-frou name. An Aesop: The Oompa-Loompas deliver a song about not "help[ing] yourself/To medicine from the medicine shelf" in the wake of the grandparents' de-aging themselves with too much Wonka-Vite. Also counts as a Space Whale Aesop where taking forbidden medicine and/or too much of it will either de-age you out of this plane of existence or confine you to the toilet for most of your waking hours for the rest of your life.