More Charlie? A Newly published chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!?!

Here's some news from The Guardian. 

Or, sort of, not really news? 

It's the 50th anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a new edition of the book is out, and a chapter from an early draft, but not included in the final book, is available.

It's always great to have more Roald Dahl available, so yay for us! 

Also: it's just a draft; it's short, and--crucially--it wasn't included in the final book. So what do we take from it. I think if we take anything more from it than the simple pleasure of a few more paragraphs of that wild, cruel, fantastical world, then we're committing some sort of literary overdraft. It's just a bit of fluff, it doesn't tell us anything new about the book we have, or give us anything reason to reconsider what we have already decided about the book. It's not apocrypha. It's noodling around with some ideas that either didn't make the cut, or got adapted and integrated into the book we have in some other way.

Of course, there is so much in that little chapter to enjoy, and wonder at, that I'm now ready to pull my copy of the book down from the shelf for a quick re-read.

And if some newly exposed material sends readers back to this remarkable work, then what else does it really have to be?