WARNING: DO NOT try to make George’s Marvellous Medicine yourselves at home. It could be dangerous…
George Kranky’s Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman.
One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do.
A magic medicine it will be! One that will either cure her completely of her horrible grouchiness… or blow off the top of her head!
A classroom favourite from the popular children’s author Roald Dahl.
This is the laugh-out-loud tale of George Kranky, who plots revenge on his mean and miserable Grandma by concocting a magic medicine for her. Little does he realise that the medicine will have weird and wonderful effects on the old lady’s body.
This is one of the shorter Roald Dahl chapter books, and suits readers who like anarchic humour or stories with a little bit of unexplained magic. Children love the fun of George’s concoction, the transformations of size when Grandma grows so tall that her head bursts through the ceiling and the supersized farmyard animals.
A lesson planning resource pack provided by the publisher to accompany the book George’s Marvellous Medicine.
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