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Terrible. A boy makes a disturbing “medicine” aka all poisons in a house, garage, and farm, to give to his horrible grandmother.
George's Marvelous Medicine | 
panTerrible. A boy makes a disturbing “medicine” aka all poisons in a house, garage, and farm, to give to his horrible grandmother.
Read my 7th Roald Dahl on the 7th day of our community quarantine 📖
11/50 #goodreadsreadingchallenge2020
pickGeorge's cranky, crabby, old grunion of a grandma needs her medicine but George thinks he can improve her with his own special concoction! Another adorable story only made better by Quentin Blake's wonderful illustrations!
#mountTBR 2/337
Another Dahl I missed as a kid but it's adorable nonetheless! I needed something while I was going to bed last night so I snapped this guy up. 😁
pickGeorge decides to create a better medicine to "cure" his grandmother of her nastiness. He goes through the house throwing in anything runny, powdery or gooey.
Oh George, making this "medicine" sounds like so very much fun (though also as Dahl notes in the disclaimer, incredibly dangerous in real life).
pick#Adventrecommends Day 3: George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Back on track after missing yesterday due to being on Christmas Market duty.
I had this book on tape as a kid. I loved listening & reading along. This book was & still is laugh out loud with fantastic illustrations from Quentin Blake. A must for every kid, big & small
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I‘m assuming this is the translated version of George‘s Marvellous Medicine. The only book I couldn‘t read as a class teacher for not being able to stop laughing!
#potions #OctoberPutASpellOnYou
She asked if she could read her sister a chapter of The Witches before bed, but I didn‘t want to deal with possible nightmares. 🙂 So they settled for George‘s Marvelous Medicine. 😍📚 #raisingreaders
When I moved across the country I didn‘t take any books from my early childhood (hopefully some are still boxed up at dad‘s house), so George‘s Marvelous Medicine is the oldest childhood book in my possession. I got it for my 10th birthday - August 1987. I still love this story.
#24in48
so-soThis was cute but Matilda it‘s not. I am hoping that I haven‘t read the best books by Dahl by already reading the Charlie books, James & The Giant Peach and Matilda.
pickNow that's a children's book. I never had it as a book actually but as a CD to listen to in the car. Who would have known that poisoning your horrible grandma would be such fun 😅
Sad week: our dear old Labrador, after a period of mystery illnesses, has been diagnosed with multiple mast cell tumours. They are popping up all over. He's on steroids and love.
pickI️ bought a bunch of childhood classics at thrift shops when my kids were younger. As fate would have it, they don‘t care much for my taste in books (they must be their dad‘s kids). Too bad, they‘re for me now. At any rate, I‘d forgotten how fabulously wicked Roald Dahl‘s stories could be.
Subbing 5th grade today. Summer fever is strong. We are getting nothing done y'all.
I haven't read a lot of books I was crazy about lately, but George's Marvelous Medicine and a collection of Schonberg's Bavarian Tales were probably my favorite reads finished in November. I'm using the picture from my mail today, because tea is basically medicine for the hardships of life, right? Anyway, I'm excited to try my new tea and for more good reads soon! #bestofnovember #photoadaynov16
pickAs always, Roald Dahl is a master at the wonderful and slightly creepy, as well as working a little bit of fantasy into every day life. I wasn't really sure how to feel about the grandmother or the father, really. But I lost myself in Derek Jacobi's fantastic narration of George's genius predicament and relaxed. Highly recommend this romp through George's attempt to "actually do Grandma some good!"
Impulse buy at Costco yesterday.... Couldn't resist! (Especially as they are illustrated by Quentin Blake 😍).... Cute free bookmark too...
Sometimes I think this book is going to give him some dangerous ideas...
pickRoald Dahl was a favorite when I was a kid. Somehow I missed a bunch of his slimmer books so I'm catching up now. In this, George makes some marvelous medicine to give to his nasty, mean grandma. But what happens next will teach everyone a lesson. Classic Dahl-ian characters, really liked it!
pickWow, and I thought MY Grandma was a nut job!
