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  <title><![CDATA[George's Marvellous Medicine]]></title>
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  <default_description>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&amp;#8217;s in for the surprise of her life&amp;#8211;and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1981</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story was quite amusing.  It's about a boy George who has a really mean, and grouchy Grandmother who treats him badly.  So he decides to make a new medicine to try and make her a nicer person.<br/>What George creates is a bit of a Marvel.  I'm surprised he didn't kill anyone with the stuff tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62210589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A taste of her own medicine . . . <br/><br/>Are you sick? If you are, you gotta have some of George's Marvelous Medicine! George's grandma is the meanest grandma on the block, a <em>&quot;horrid, grouchy, grizzly, old grunion of a grandma.&quot;</em> You can't help but laugh as the grouchy old woman tells ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52458180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel that Dahl is so amazing because he plays on children's fantasies and desires so well. Here we have a horrid grandma and George is so sick of her he combines every awful thing in the house he can think of to try to poison her (don't kids love making weird concoctions?), but instead he makes he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1842184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a boy named George who has to take care of his grandmother because his mom and dad can't.  They both work full-time.  So every day George has to give his Grandma her medicene. But she is mean to George when his parents are not around.  George has enough of her meanness that he mak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71228318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9547823">
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    <body><![CDATA[very good and funny but also very short recommended to all my friends<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is something about Roald Dahl's books that are delightful, and yet sinister in an awkward kind of way. George's Marvelous Medicine is one of those works.  Dahl's story contains a single child George acting in a mean spirited manner to a family member he doesn't like.<br/><br/>Giving his nast...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66135793">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even I got a little nervous reading this one. George feeds his horrible grandmother everything from horseradish to hairspray to antifreeze. That the medicine doesn't kill her is the real marvel of the story. Plus, turns out it's a little difficult to read anything about increasing animal growth by m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64364664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book while I was working on the children's desk, and I was laughing hysterically.  For some reason I get a kick out of seeing little kids arguing with grandparents, or kids being afraid of their grandparents.  And I just love the relationship that George has with his grandmother.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35960401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[George Kranky is a boy who lives on a farm with him father, mother and grandmother. George is sick and tired of her cranky, selfish, mean grandmother. To cure this, George decides to make a medicine that includes everything bad in the house, including a few animal medicines from his father's shed. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33209377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm 28 and I still love this book! This was my first Roald Dahl book ever. I got it as a birthday present, and up to then, I hadn't even heard of Roald Dahl. It was love at first read. It was crazy and wonderful, and Dahl's writing style got me hooked. I don't think I've ever read anything like it e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13863666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    George is a poor boy that lives on a farm with his father, mother, and his grandmother. He loves everyone, but the one person he cannot stand is his grandmother. She is the most rudest and nastiest woman you would ever meet. <br/>    That is exactly what George tries to find a solution to; his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7230403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was hilarious. And also horrible. Who doesn't want to mix a magical concoction made of all things awful for a horrid grandma?<br/><br/>I remember reading this when I was in school, and re-reading it now still makes me laugh.<br/><br/><br/>(The mother being worried at breakfast and then, by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50789512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was another book my grade 3 teacher read to my class, every afternoon when we were tired from play-lunch. We loved the concoctions George would make for his grouchy grandmother and the hilarious outcomes when she took the &quot;medicine&quot;. Really hilarious story, made even better with Quent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41160270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[read this book in year 3 for school and i thought it was fantastic! i think i still do. something about roald dahl's work makes you want to read more. he's such a quaint talented writer. he knows how to grab a child's attention and keep it which is hard for any writer to do let alone a children's wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74706412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was obsessed with this book when i was little i used to read it all the time to the point where i wanted to make the medicine lol! Only after reading it again years later do i find the ending just weird lol but its still one of my fave books its just too good not to like.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[George was a mistreated boy.  His grandmother was very mean and he lived on a farm.  One day, he decided to mix up all the ingredients that he could find in the house.  Once he mixed it up, he fed it to his grandmother.  His grandmother began to become a horrible (not neccessarily) person and the ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7491485">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious and amazingly fun. Reading it seriously tempted me to run around the house and throw everything into a great pan just like George did, and see what I could manage to make. Nothing beats the mental image of grandma growing through the roof!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this with Gabe, he chose the book. I am a Roald Dahl fan so I thoroughly enjoyed the quirkiness of the story and the oddity of the characters. It was an easy read and was a great &quot;chapter book&quot; to read at bedtime. Gabe thought it was very funny. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a book like all other Roald Dahl books; great. This book is about a boy called George and his grandmother. Now, as you know, not all old people -  especially ladies are nice and gentle. George's grandmother is a perfect example, she is grouchy, old, smelly, and mean. She always commands...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37374910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great children's book. What kind wouldn't love to read about a young hero who retaliates against the authoritative, mean adult in his world and still be admired by his parents? Plus, he get's to play around with alchemy! ]]></body>
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