George's Marvellous Medicine

By Roald Dahl

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult

George's Marvellous Medicine (1981) is Roald Dahl's comic children's novel about eight-year-old George Kranky, left alone with his crabby grandmother while his parents are out. Sick of her bullying and the foul brown medicine she forces on him, he brews a wild homemade potion from bathroom, pantry and farm chemicals. One spoonful kicks off chaotic, enlarging results that tear through the farmyard and force Grandma, George and his worried parents into a showdown.

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• Florence Pugh: “"La Potion magique de Georges Bouillon" était mon préféré parce que mon père le lisait avec des voix effrayantes. Je me rappelle que je riais tellement, j'avais de gros fous rires. Il ne pouvait jamais arriver à la fin du livre parce que je lui demandais de relire les mêmes chapitres encore et encore parce que c'était si drôle.”