George's Marvelous Medicine - Hardcover

Dahl, Roald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375822062 ISBN 13: 9780375822063

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2002

Synopsis

George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her chronic grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma’s in for the surprise of her life–and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!

About this title

About the Author:

The son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated atRepton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two, and it was while writingabout his experiences during this time that he started his career as an author. Hisfabulously popular children's books are read by children all over the world. He died inNovember 1990.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

“A magic medicine it shall be!”

George sat himself down at the table in the kitchen. He was shaking a little. Oh, how he hated Grandma! He really hated that horrid old witchy woman. And all of a sudden he had a tremendous urge to do something about her. Something whopping. Something absolutely terrific. A real shocker. A sort of explosion.

“I’m not going to be frightened by her,” he said softly to himself. But he was frightened. And that’s why he wanted suddenly to explode her away.

Well...not quite away. But he did want to shake the old woman up a bit.

Very well, then. What should it be, this whopping terrific exploding shocker for Grandma?

As George sat there pondering this interesting problem, his eye fell upon the bottle of Grandma’s brown medicine standing on the sideboard. Rotten stuff it seemed to be...and it didn’t do her the slightest bit of good. She was always just as horrid after she’d had it as she’d been before.

So-ho! thought George suddenly. I shall make her a new medicine, one that is so strong and so fierce and so fantastic it will either cure her completely or blow off the top of her head.

“Here we go, then!” cried George, jumping up from the table. “A magic medicine it shall be!”

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375822062
• ISBN 13: 9780375822063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Blake Quentin