George's Marvellous Medicine

by RoaldDahl (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $6.45

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.19

  Young George mixes a medicine to make his nasty grandmother more likable, and once she drinks it she grows to immense proportions. George's father wants the formula to breed a race of super-size livestock, but George can't duplicate the recipe. His fourth try is a potion that shrinks the drinker to nothing - and greedy Grandma drinks it with expected results!

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.33

  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 needs ...