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George's Marvelous Medicine
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George's Marvelous Medicine
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George's Marvelous Medicine

Written by Roald Dahl

Narrated by Derek Jacobi

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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"Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print." -The New York Times


A taste of her own medicine.

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 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!


From the Compact Disc edition.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 26, 2013
ISBN9781101628997
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George's Marvelous Medicine
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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) es un autor justamente famoso por su extraordinario ingenio, su destreza narrativa, su dominio del humor negro y su inagotable capacidad de sorpresa, que llevó a Hitchcock a adaptar para la televisión muchos de sus relatos. En Anagrama se han publicado la novela "Mi tío Oswald" y los libros de cuentos "El gran cambiazo" (Gran Premio del Humor Negro), "Historias extraordinarias", "Relatos de lo inesperado" y "Dos fábulas". En otra faceta, Roald Dahl goza de una extraordinaria popularidad como autor de libros para niños.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A lesser Dahl, but good fun nevertheless. Not perhaps one that ages with the reader as well as others.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A fantastic use of words that allow the younger reader to engage in a short, humourous read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The story is about eight-year-old George, who is left at home with his unpleasant grandmother while his mother goes shopping. Dahl acknowledges that most Grandmas are nice people, but this one is one of his classic nasty creations, who treats her grandson very badly. I read this aloud to my three-year-old grandson and he liked it so much that he asked for it again a day later. The book quickly becomes silly, as George decides to make some new medicine, and fills a large pan with the contents of every bottle and can that he can find around the house. Each item is listed in some detail, much of which I skipped on my first reading aloud. The results are then bizarre, increasingly so towards the end. Recommended as a read-aloud to any child who likes short chapter books with line drawings every few pages, and who appreciates the bizarre and absurd. Also good for fluently reading children; the intended readership is probably for those around seven to nine years old.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Slightly predictable but funny still, a joy to read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    So Grandma is disabled and suffers from dwarfism and chronic pain. She scares George and he sets out to poison her. A deeply subversive novel that encourages children to play around with chemicals under the sink and perform experiments on animals. Great stuff.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    fantastic read
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book is about George's marvelous madicine.He made a medicine but it make you tall and short and so on... This book is very fun to read.. I promise you that you will love this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is one of my favoirte of Roald Dahl's books. It is inventive, clever, with a slight hint of malice, which is what I love about Dahl's books. A very funny book that has the main characteristic of all Dahl's books that the children are brilliant and the adults all slightly dumb and daft. George's marvelous medicine is fun for all ages as most of Dahl's books are. Its also fun to read aloud if your teaching someone to read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I love this story although it is actually twisted. It makes me wonder what was going on in Dahl's mind.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Quite possibly my favourite Dahl book - he was such a genius at knowing just how children's (and adult's) minds work. Genuinely hilarious as George concocts a medicine to cure his repugnant Grandma of her grumpiness with unexpected results.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is are fantasy book. It makes your imagination go wild I recommend this book for year 3, 4,5, 6.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of the best kids books of all time and what a cast of characters.

    A kid like we all were, a horrible scary grandmother that's ten times worse than anyone ever had and a father who is so feel of life and joy that he get away with calling his mother in law an old cow.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When George's horrible grandmother crosses the line, George makes a new medicine for her with everything from shampoo to flea powder to motor oil. When she takes the medicine, it has surprising and hilarious results. A great audiobook for family listening. The narrator does great voices, especially the grandma voice and Dahl's hilarious story will have the whole family giggling.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    george is up to some tricks when he puts tons of things together to make a potion for his mean old aunt/grandma. dahl's a great lister, and the things he puts into the concoction is marvelous indeed.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When George's parents are away for the day, George is responsible for giving his Grandma her dose of medicine. But the medicine never seems to do his horrid, grouchy grandma any good, so he decides to mix up a batch of his own that will either make her nice or disappear. Throwing in a little or a lot of most household stuff he can get his hands on makes for a marvelous medicine. I had read George's Marvelous Medicine as a kid and I must say the rereading didn't disappoint. The writing was charming and lyrical and the artwork was fun. Several of the descriptions made me laugh out loud - like 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. I did read it a little different as an adult; I was thinking about how much the medicine was costing as George kept dumping perfumes and animal pills in the pot. And all the ideas this could give a kid!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Why did i pick it up: i usualy like to rad Roald Dahl books and this one was one i hadn't read yet. I think it was wone of the first ones i readWhy did i finish it: i was interested to see what was going to happen in the end and there was no boring parts, it flowed nicelyWho would i recommend this to: ages 9+, its good for young kids but ad
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Another imaginative story by Roald Dahl.

    George's grandmother is always ordering him around. Get this, do that, go here, and complaining. She is never happy.

    What if he could come up with a new medicine that would make her happy? Or make her go away?

    A quick read for an adult, but fun. Definitly from a child's point of view.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I adore Roald Dahl. I really do. His books are frantic and crazy and somewhat evil, but the good and bad people get what's coming to them, and there's lots of fun along the way, and he isn't afraid of language at all. He just thumps down everything that works, all the wriggliest slimiest yuckiest words he can find, if necessary, and it all works and is tremendously fun, because it's Roald Dahl.

    The most sinister thing in this book to me now is not Granny -- she's creepy, yeah, but she's a creepy old lady, cantankerous and grumpy and a bit witchy, and that's nothing new -- but George's father, who is just clearly out to get rid of Granny. That, I find creepy: a responsible adult being anything but.

    As a kid, I'm sure I loved it.

    I especially loved making a potion, and the rhyme George sings while he makes it. It was always in my mind when I was making potions, as many kids do, but something always made me afraid to taste it, just in case it exploded me or shrank me or something equally untoward...
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    George's Marvelous Medcine is about a little boy called George Kranky and his mother and father go out, and George has to give his grandma her Medcine at 11:00.He looks at the bottle and thinks then his grandma asks for some tea so he makes her some tea but forgets the saucer and the spoon so bak he goes to the kitchen.He has an idea to give her a diffrent medcine and it is really funny.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'm getting closer to reading all of Dahl's children's books before I move onto to his other works. I had a discussion with a couple people after reading this about why this hasn't been (and probably never will be) turned into a movie. Just read it to find out.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I was surprised because George's imagination was great. He even added things that are not real food to make his grandma's medicine! And what happened to her was awesome. I really enjoyed reading this book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    George's concoction should have killed grandma, but instead it has more surprising and hilarious jokes. Dahl's tales hardly turn out how we expect and going with it is where the fun lies.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl, George is a little boy who's grandma always tells him that he's growing too fast. He couldn't help growing too fast and that's why he really hates his grandma. George makes a medicine to try to fix his grandma but it doesn't go as planned. It's a really nice book and it's funny reading about what actually happens to his grandma after George secretly gives the medicine to his grandma. It's a very funny and unusual book and I definitely recommend reading it if you like unusual things happening in a story. I absolutely love the books by Roald Dahl!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Classic Roald Dahl with slightly wacky characters behaving in only the unusual way Roald can portray. Good read aloud for 7-8 year olds. A bit of adult humor thrown in at the end.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Classic, zany fantasy story from the incomparable Roald Dahl. Children will squeal with delight and groan with disgust as George raids every room in the farmhouse to create his crazy medicinal concoction for grandma. Quentin Blake's whimsical drawings are perfect, as always, but the real standout, is Dahl's use of language and how he skillfully deploys his trademark sequences of synonyms - not only to provide humour, but to extend and expand the reader's or listener's vocabulary. An all-time favorite for both children and adults. Makes a great read-aloud or Readers' Theatre production.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book is interesting and filled with good humor. I would recommend this book to everybody both young and old. I like how Roald Dahl writes his stories and I also enjoy his variety of interesting word choice.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The main character of the book is George and he tries to get rid of his grandma by making a medicine of everything he can find. This story is funny because he gets every thing he can and puts it in the medicine pot. You would like this story if you like funny books and weird ones too.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This edition, "Geordie's Mingin Medicine" is a translation into Scots dialect of Roald Dahl's humourous fantasy tale for children, "George's Marvelous Medicine". From the jacket notes on the Itchy Coo edition, "Geordie's Grannie wis a grabbie crabbit ault wumman wi peeliewally broon teeth and a wee snirkit-up mooth like a dug's bahookie. She wis aye compleenin, girnin, greetin, grummlin and mulligrumphin aboot somethin or ither. She wis a meeserable auld grumph." And so the story continues, in the vernacular Scots dialect which is seldom heard now except when speaking to elderly Scots in certain regions. Best enjoyed when read aloud by a Scotsman or woman who can go with the flow, make the most of the dialect, and enjoy the wild exaggerations and hilarious events of the story.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Not my favorite Dahl book, but still a cute, quirky read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    What more can I say other than Roald Dahl is a writing genius! Again, Dahl delivers a fun, humorous and creative story spun with magic and wonder. If only I could tap into his writing muse and channel his creativity my way. The characters are fun, simple yet memorable. The descriptions are carefully crafted and consistent with Dahl's collection of colorful stories. This book is yet another example of how Dahl takes the time to include the simplest detail in which helps the reader to imagine the characters so alive and in color. This book is silly, gross, fun and simply wonderful! If you want to have some fun with kids, read this story.