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George's Marvelous Medicine
George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he ne...more
120 pages
Published
2003
by Jonathan Cape
(first published 1981)
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The funniest thing about this book is the dedication page. "This book is for doctors everywhere." Ha! Roald Dahl was such a cheeky devil.
George is stuck at home alone with his mean, scary, and very demanding grandma. He's supposed to give her medicine at eleven o'clock. Instead of giving her the usual medicine, he concocts a replacement batch, hoping it will improve Grandma's disposition. To create his "Marvelous Medicine," George throws in absolutely everything he can find around the house. Sh...more
George is stuck at home alone with his mean, scary, and very demanding grandma. He's supposed to give her medicine at eleven o'clock. Instead of giving her the usual medicine, he concocts a replacement batch, hoping it will improve Grandma's disposition. To create his "Marvelous Medicine," George throws in absolutely everything he can find around the house. Sh...more
Georges Marvellous Medicine tells the story of 8 year old George Kranky who lives on a farm with his mum, dad and his nasty old grandma. She is a bitter old lady who speaks horribly to George and is always saying mean things to him. It is George’s job to give his grandma her medicine at 11am every day. George feels that the medicine does not make her any nicer so one day he decides to make his own medicine for her hoping that it will cure her of her mean disposition. He concocts the medicine fro...more
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Considering the fact that I'm a big sucker for children's books, I can't deny that Roald Dahl holds a special place in my heart (naks) and I have read almost all of his books.
I dunno, maybe I wasn't in a good mood when I read this or maybe I was just bored at the time but... (I hate to say this) for me this is the most uninteresting book I have read written by him.
I dunno, maybe I wasn't in a good mood when I read this or maybe I was just bored at the time but... (I hate to say this) for me this is the most uninteresting book I have read written by him.
As a child I did not read this book do not know why, but as an adult I really enjoyed it. I liked the story, the characters - Gran was my favourite. The liquids and things put into the toxic medicine were so funny. The reaction from the characters from it was brilliant, you did not know what was coming next it keep the reader engaged and wanting to continue reading to find out what was going to happen next.
I really enjoyed this book and think I would have felt the same way about it if I had bee...more
I really enjoyed this book and think I would have felt the same way about it if I had bee...more
Main Characters: George, Grandma
Setting: Farm
POV: Narrator
Grade Level: 3-5th
Reading Level: Fountas-Pinnell - P
Genre: Modern Fantasy
George lives on a farm with his mom, his dad, and his grandma. George doesn’t like his grandma at all, as she always makes up stories and gets him in trouble. One day, he finally decides to do something about it. He knows that his grandma takes medicine every morning. George makes his own medicine out of all kinds of household items and animal medication. When his g...more
Setting: Farm
POV: Narrator
Grade Level: 3-5th
Reading Level: Fountas-Pinnell - P
Genre: Modern Fantasy
George lives on a farm with his mom, his dad, and his grandma. George doesn’t like his grandma at all, as she always makes up stories and gets him in trouble. One day, he finally decides to do something about it. He knows that his grandma takes medicine every morning. George makes his own medicine out of all kinds of household items and animal medication. When his g...more
May 12, 2013
Ruth
marked it as to-read
George's Marvellous Medicine is about an 8 year old boy called George. George lives with his parents and his old grandma. His grandma is not a very friendly person and is nasty and mean to George. Each day at 11am, Grandma gets medicine. One day before George gives grandma her medicine, he begins to think about grandmas medicine and why it is not making her better and decides in order to make her nicer to him he will make up his own medicine to give her. He thinks of all the different things he...more
We all know those people who complain, or who are just miserable. For George, it’s his grandmother, a mean 'grunion', who is never satisfied or pleased. This story is a great read for anyone from the age of 6+.
George, eight was in charge of his grandmother’s care, while his mother shopped, his father worked the farm. No matter how hard he tried, she found fault in all he did. Just the sight of him set her off, complaining that he was growing too quickly. Numerous times that morning she reminded...more
George, eight was in charge of his grandmother’s care, while his mother shopped, his father worked the farm. No matter how hard he tried, she found fault in all he did. Just the sight of him set her off, complaining that he was growing too quickly. Numerous times that morning she reminded...more
I'm a huge fan of Roald Dahl and as a fan I can say this is simply not one of his best. A relatively short book even for the intended target audience, which is 9-12ish, what started out as a fun story about a boy and his very grumpy grandmother just never quite lived up to my expectations. More silly than clever, and disappointing, especially since the beginning was strong.
Excerpt from the first chapter:
Excerpt from the first chapter:
"You know what's the matter with you?" the old woman said, staring at George over the rim of...more
Georges Marvelous Medicine is an interesting book. The book is about a child named George who is tired of living with his grandma due to her attitude. George lives on a small farm with his mom, dad, and grandma. His dad has several different medicines in his barn for his animals. One day George gets the idea to make a medicine that would help cure his grandma of her attitude or get rid of her. He goes around the housing finding some of the most dangerous chemicals he can and brews up a medicine...more
George is a small boy of eight, and when he's left all alone one day with his grouchy old grandmother, he determines to make her a new medicine to replace the medicine that she takes, which doesn't seem to do her any good. He mixes all sorts of fantastical things into the brew, from shampoo, to lipstick, to all sorts of animal medicines, to brown paint, to anti-freeze, and much more. In the real world, such a mixture would almost certainly kill you. But with Roald Dahl, anything is possible. And...more
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
First Published: 1981
Typically Dahl with a tale of a child overcoming abuse and adversity with his wits and everyday household products. Nonsense mixed with Dahl's odd childlike morality. It works, but it also feels just a bit lacking. What plot there is is both underdeveloped and abrupt - getting around to making the medicine is rather elongated, but the rest of the story is jumpy, sporadic and rapid. And then there is the capitalist sub-plot, cruelty...more
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
First Published: 1981
Typically Dahl with a tale of a child overcoming abuse and adversity with his wits and everyday household products. Nonsense mixed with Dahl's odd childlike morality. It works, but it also feels just a bit lacking. What plot there is is both underdeveloped and abrupt - getting around to making the medicine is rather elongated, but the rest of the story is jumpy, sporadic and rapid. And then there is the capitalist sub-plot, cruelty...more
George lives on a farm with his mum, dad, and his grandma, however George does not like his grandma much at all. He views her as ‘moany’ and horrid. One day he was left with the job of giving her medicine, and had the ‘genius’ idea of giving grandma his own personal medicine in an attempt to make her nicer...or merely get his own back for all the nasty things she had said and done to him.
So George goes ahead with his foul concoction, mixing in pretty much everything he comes across in the house...more
So George goes ahead with his foul concoction, mixing in pretty much everything he comes across in the house...more
Review of George’s Marvelous Medicine
Matt Cantwell
The story of George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl is one of intrigue and humor that everyone should enjoy reading. The story is a children’s story with many great and detailed illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Within the story, Grandma has come to visit and watch George while his parents are away. Grandma is a very crabby and grumpy old hag. She is very mean to George and he gets the idea to create a new medicine for Grandma that will either...more
Matt Cantwell
The story of George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl is one of intrigue and humor that everyone should enjoy reading. The story is a children’s story with many great and detailed illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Within the story, Grandma has come to visit and watch George while his parents are away. Grandma is a very crabby and grumpy old hag. She is very mean to George and he gets the idea to create a new medicine for Grandma that will either...more
Before you let your children, nephew, or niece read this book, please make sure that they don't read it alone. Because it will be dangerousss.. Especially when they have grandmother like George's.
Caution: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOOMEEEE!!!
Jadi, ceritanya tentang seorang bocah lelaki bernama George. Dia hidup dengan kedua orang tuanya dan seorang nenek yang sangat sangat sangat menyebalkan. Yeah, she's such a tiny filthy old woman.
Seorang nenek harusnya penuh kasih sayang dan baik sama cucunya. Tapi n...more
Caution: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOOMEEEE!!!
Jadi, ceritanya tentang seorang bocah lelaki bernama George. Dia hidup dengan kedua orang tuanya dan seorang nenek yang sangat sangat sangat menyebalkan. Yeah, she's such a tiny filthy old woman.
Seorang nenek harusnya penuh kasih sayang dan baik sama cucunya. Tapi n...more
This is my typical cup of coffee..Missing Roald Dahl like no other..A quick read too..
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So this is a story of a boy, named George who had a grouchy old grandma. One day, his mom went to the town, leaving him alone to tend for his grandma and was asked to give her meds. With his mom out of the way, and his father out in the farm, working, George had to follow every order made by his grandmother. She asked him this and that, order him to do anything just to make him suffer. George had it enoug...more
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So this is a story of a boy, named George who had a grouchy old grandma. One day, his mom went to the town, leaving him alone to tend for his grandma and was asked to give her meds. With his mom out of the way, and his father out in the farm, working, George had to follow every order made by his grandmother. She asked him this and that, order him to do anything just to make him suffer. George had it enoug...more
My memories of reading this book as a child are of sparking a fascination with potions! The idea that George is making a magical medicine with things around the house makes it seem real and like something anybody could do. Reflecting on it now as an adult, there are good and bad consequences of this. It is nice that as a child, George's Marvellous Medicine gave me an interest to go and make my own potions made from different kinds of shampoo, which I thoroughly enjoyed. However, worryingly it is...more
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George lives on a farm with his parents and his nasty, grumpy old grandma. He has no siblings and there are no children nearby to play with. Left alone with his grandma once again, George comes up with a brilliant plan to teach his grandma a well deserved lesson. He has an hour before her medicine is due in which to create a magical concoction that he hopes will relieve her of some of her more vicious traits.
George visits each room in the house one by one, adding ingredients into his huge saucep...more
George visits each room in the house one by one, adding ingredients into his huge saucep...more
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The book is about a boy called George, eight years of age, who lives on a farm with his mother, father and grandmother. One day, his mother and father go out, leaving George and his grandmother at home, before leaving, George's mother reminds George to give his grandmother her medicine at a certain time. George finds his grandmother grumpy, and finds that she has a negative attitude towards him. After finding out a few dark secrets, George has a plan to make a medicine for her, in order to cure...more
I really enjoyed this children's book as it kept my attention from beginning to end through its humour and sense of imagination. It is about an eight year old boy named George who is left to take care of his Grandmother while his parents are out. She is demanding, rude and quite simply frustrates George to the point where he decides to replace her usual medicine with his own home remedy in order to give her a shock. He boils up items from a range of locations to create his concoction. On giving...more
George is an 8 year old boy living on a farm with his parents and his elderly and sick grandmother. He becomes tired of his Grandmothers constant nagging, and taunts towards him. One day he discovers a dark secret about his grandmothers past, and decides to concoct a potion to teach her a lesson for being so vile. George goes through all the cupboards in the house, collecting ingredients for his ‘magic medicine’ which he will substitute for his grandmother’s usual tonic. George cooks up his mixt...more
George is an eight year old boy who, who lives with his parents and grandmother. When left alone with his grandmother one day, he reaches boiling point as result of his grandmother’s rude, self-absorbed and bossy disposition. Whilst pondering over the situation he devises a ‘marvellous plan’ which he hopes might free him from his witch of a grandmother. With a strong rationale George begins to concoct a medicine to replace her existing one, in hope that it will either ‘cure her completely or blo...more
George’s Marvelous Medicine
This is a wonderful story about a boy called George who is left to look after his Grandmother on a Saturday morning. George’s grandmother is not like ordinary nice Grandmother’s, quite the opposite. She’s cruel to George, telling him lies to scare him. So much so that George begins to think that she’s a witch. George hatches a plan to get Grandma back for all her cruelness. With a whole house and farmyard at his disposal he sets about making his marvelous medicine, whi...more
This is a wonderful story about a boy called George who is left to look after his Grandmother on a Saturday morning. George’s grandmother is not like ordinary nice Grandmother’s, quite the opposite. She’s cruel to George, telling him lies to scare him. So much so that George begins to think that she’s a witch. George hatches a plan to get Grandma back for all her cruelness. With a whole house and farmyard at his disposal he sets about making his marvelous medicine, whi...more
George Kranky is an eight year old boy who lives on a farm with his mother, father and grandmother. Grandma is a bitter, nasty old lady who never says or does anything nice. When George is left alone to look after her that is when she is at her worst, telling him what a horrible boy he is and frightening him with scary stories.
After another morning of horrible tales and nastiness, George decides to do something about his Grandma to teach her a lesson. Every day at eleven o’clock grandma needs to...more
After another morning of horrible tales and nastiness, George decides to do something about his Grandma to teach her a lesson. Every day at eleven o’clock grandma needs to...more
The story is about a young boy of 8 named George Henry Kranky (I still find his name so very funny!) He resides on a farm with his parents and Grandmother who one day really annoys George with her constant self absorbed, rude and cranky attitude and so he goes about trying to “cure” her of this with the help of various ingredients he stumbles upon in his house. However things don’t go to plan and he ends up blowing his Grandmother up, and by blowing up I mean to say cause her to grow in size to...more
George is left at home alone with his grandmother. He had been left a task from his mother to give his grandmother's medication. George dislikes his grandma, and there are many colourful adjectives within the text that Dahl uses to describe her. Therefore George begins to create his own medicine to give to his grandmother, he cooks it up using all measures of ingredients around his farm and his house and then ...read the book to find out what happens.
This text was one of the first texts that I c...more
This text was one of the first texts that I c...more
George’s grandmother was a grumpy and selfish old lady. Whenever his parents were at home, his grandmother would treat him nicely. However when his parents went out, she would ill treated him.
One day, his grandmother forced him to eat cabbages four times a day with bugs. George did not like his grandmother. In fact he hated her. So he decided to make a medicine to change his grandmother’s attitude. He mixed all sorts into the medicine and even brown paint so that the colour blended so well that...more
One day, his grandmother forced him to eat cabbages four times a day with bugs. George did not like his grandmother. In fact he hated her. So he decided to make a medicine to change his grandmother’s attitude. He mixed all sorts into the medicine and even brown paint so that the colour blended so well that...more
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This is a very entertaining and enjoyable book about an eight year old boy, George, who lives with his mother, father and grandmother. George is fed up with Grandma’s rudeness, selfishness and cruel the way she treats him, so he decides to brew up a marvellous medicine to cure her. George puts everything peculiar he can find in the house into the medicine and boils it up in a large saucepan. The result of Grandma taking the medicine leads to some very entertaining circumstances.
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I greatly enjoyed re-reading this Roald Dahl classic. It tells the story of our protagonist George who is fed up of his grandmother’s nagging and rudeness. So instead her usual medicine he decides to make his own to give her. He takes his ingredients from all around the house, including shampoo, floor polish and anti-freeze proving a good reason for each inclusion. For example the shampoo is to ‘wash her tummy’.
However not even George could have predicted the effect it would have on his grandma...more
However not even George could have predicted the effect it would have on his grandma...more
George is an eight-year-old boy who lives on a farm with his Mother, Father and Grandma. For years George’s Grandma has been selfish, grumpy and tells her Grandson deep dark secrets. One day George has finally had enough and creates a medicine full of disgusting things that he gives to his Grandma. The side effects to the medicine are his Grandma grows and grows. She becomes so big that she cannot sleep in the house and has to sleep outside in the barn. In light of the events George’s Father Mr...more
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Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, who rose to prominence in the 1940's with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors.
Dahl's first published work, inspired by a meeting with C. S. Forester, was Shot Down Over Libya. Today the story is published as "A Piece of Cake". The story, about his wartime a...more
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Dahl's first published work, inspired by a meeting with C. S. Forester, was Shot Down Over Libya. Today the story is published as "A Piece of Cake". The story, about his wartime a...more
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