George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl

...Roald Dahl's hero, eight-year-old George. George's family have a farm and there are no friends around to play with at weekends. When his mum goes shopping one Saturday morning, George is left alone with his obnoxious Grandma. It would be hard to have any feelings of tenderness for George's Grandma. She moans constantly and never has a smile or a kind word for George. Even when he makes her a cup of tea, she grumbles about the sugar and makes a fuss ...
...in the forbidden medicine cupboard. George's Marvellous Medicine contains everything from shampoo to floor polish to canary seed. Even the shed and the garage are raided for anything from sheepdip to engine oil. George cooks it all up on the stove and finds himself chanting a magical verse. The time comes for Grandma to have her spoonful. As soon as she swallows it, she shoots up out of her chair and then comes straight back down again. When she ...

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George's grandmother is a grizzly old grunion. George dreads being left alone with her when his mother goes shopping on a Saturday morning and if you knew his grandmother you really wouldn't blame him. She does nothing but criticise and get him into trouble by telling tales on him to his parents. Half the tales aren't even true. George lives miles from anywhere, on a farm, and he hasn't many other children to play with. This makes it even worse when ...
...the living room and into George's bedroom, then through that ceiling and into the attic, and finally and most fantastically of all Grandma's head crashes right through the roof of the house. George watches in wonder. He tries the medicine on a chicken in the farmyard and it grows as big as a cow. Then he tries it to similar effect with the pig, the bullocks, the sheep, the pony and the nanny goat. When Mr Kranky, George's father, comes home he goes ...

jillmurphy 05.12.2002 · Read full review
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An extract for George’s Marvellous Medicine was in a Roald Dahl Anthology that I was privileged to own when I was younger and was one of the things within it that I really liked reading. Because of this I was quite pleased when I discovered that my brother had the book in his Roald Dahl box set. The book is like most of Roald Dahl’s offerings rather simple and easy to read. The story is rather vibrant and entertaining and the covers of the book can ...
...book itself was first published in 1981 and is not too long a read, coming in at 104 pages long in my copy, which is a Puffin edition, published in 2001. Despite saying that this book is 104 pages in length, not all of these pages contain writing and some contain only a minimal amount, as the story is accompanied by some superb sketches by Quentin Blake that lift the words off the page and bring the entire tale to life. They allow the adventure being ...

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‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ was the first of Roald Dahl’s stories which we read to our eldest son. It’s the story of a little boy who has a real stinker of a grandmother. She’s rude and scary and bosses him around all the time. One day George’s mum and dad have both gone out, leaving him alone with his Grandma. George has had enough of Grandma bullying him and so decides to cure her of her cantankerous behaviour with a special potion, which he’ll ...
...an enormous saucepan in the kitchen and lugs it all around the house, essentially putting in a bit of everything he finds [lipsticks and canary seed included!]. He even makes sure he adds some brown paint so that it is the same colour as Grandma’s real medicine! He then boils it up to make sure that everything’s nicely mixed together before serving it to his unsuspecting Grandma! The ‘medicine’ has quite alarming results and Grandma ends up growing ...

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** Warning to Grandmothers ** If you are a grandmother and kind, you have nothing to fear from this book. If your behaviour towards your grandchildren is terrible, and you think they may have read this book, be afraid! Do not eat or drink anything that they have been near. That is my warning. There is also a warning printed opposite the start of the first chapter which is: “WARNING TO READERS: Do not try to make George’s Marvellous Medicine yourselves ...
...Why I Read This Book ** My young friend, who has just had his 7th birthday, is working his way through the Roald Dahl Puffin Paperbacks. He has learnt that I am a good person to help him read them, as I enjoy them as much as he does. Some paragraphs, with words he is familiar with, he reads to me, but when he starts to get frustrated by the amount of new words, I say it is my turn to read to him. We change back again for parts I think he can cope ...

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...so here's the first!! GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE George is an average small boy, who lives on a farm, miles from any signs of civilisation, with his mother, father and disgusting old grandmother. One day George is told that his mother has to shopping and that George has to look after Grandma. George must give Grandma her medicine at 11.00. It's a horrid brown medicine in a bottle on the shelf. Now you might wonder why I've just said "disgusting ...
...books that he has done, George's Marvellous Medicine is my favourite. I have nearly every Roald Dahl book he's ever written. Roald Dahl is a very easy author to spot and not just by his stories. The pictures that come with the books are very distinctive and when ever I see a drawing of that style, I know that it's a Roald Dahl book. The artist behind the drawings is the very talented Quentin Blake, who I think has made his name by doing the drawings ...

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George's Marvelous Medicine is one of the many books which my little girl loves me to read to her as a bed time story. It is written by a well known children's author, Roald Dahl, the author of a number of best selling children's books,which include Matilda, The Twits and possibly the best known which was adapted into a movie,Charlie and the chocolate factory. Roald Dahl was born in Wales, he worked for the Shell Oil Company in East Africa, and ...
...THE BOOK George's Marvelous Medicine is the story of a wonderful 8 year old boy called George who lives with his parents and grandmother. Unfortunately for George, his grandmother is a surly old hag of a woman who may very well be the most demanding and ungrateful person in the entire world. The old woman scares and demeans George to the point that one day he decides to replace grandma's 11:00 medicine with a concoction that will finally do her ...

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George lives on a farm with his mother, father and grandmother, George is a nice boy but he cant stand his Grandma and who can blame him she is the most rude and nasty woman you could ever imagine. Georges parents go out for the day leaving him at home to look after his Grandma, all morning his Grandma keeps threatening to tell his parents he is naughty if he forgets to do anything for her. George decides to get his own back on her and makes a medicin ...
...around the house and farm. At 11 am it is medicin time for grandma, George gives her some of his potion and she begins to grow and grow and grow untill she is as big as the house with her head sticking through the roof. Mom and Dad return and are angry at George, Dad uses Georges medicin on the animals on the farm to make them bigger and once it is all gone he asks George to make him some more but George cant remember what and how much of the ingredients ...

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my youngest brother josh loves his bedtime stories, so i dug out all my roald dahl books, something that brings back very happy memories, inventing my own type of sweets(charlie n chocolate family) wishing i could move things with my eyes(matilda) and being put off worm spaghetti for life(twits). After reading josh a mini story every night for the last 365 days. (you remember the old 'A story for every night of the yr' i decided to try something ...
...first Roald Dahl i read so i thought it would be a good start. This book is full of Roald Dahls fantastic imagination and excellent views on childs minds, you can really relate tothe things you did as a kid. myself and josh have thouroughly enjoyed sharing this wonderfully colourful and crazy story from Roald Dahl. Only problem is josh always wants more of the story and ends up staying up later than he should and he's got some great ideas for his ...

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ROALD DAHLS ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG BOY, WHO CAN NO LONGER BEAR HIS MISERABLE EXCUSE OF A GRANDMA. AFTER BEING LEFT ALONE WITH HER FOR FAR TO LONG WHILE HIS PARENTS ARE OUT, WITH HER ORDERS AND DEMANDS HE DECIDES TO SWAP HER OWN MEDICINE WITH HIS OWN RECIPE. EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK GOES INTO HIS MEDICINE WITH HILLARIOUS RESULTS. EXPECT MORE OF ROALD DAHLS FUNNY RHYMES AND BIZZARE IDEAS. NOT UNDERSTANDABLE FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN, HOWEVER VERY ...
...CHILDREN WILL LOVE ROALD DAHLS IMAGINATION IN THIS WONDERFUL STORY. THE MEDICINE EVEN GETS TRIED OUT ON A CHICKEN. ROALD DAHLS DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS IN THIS BOOK IS BRILLIANT AND FUNNY, WITH DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF WHIZZING AND POPPING OF GRANDMA AS THE MEDICINE STARTS TOO WORK. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS STORY TO EVERYONE, ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. ...

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