George's Marvellous Medicine x 30 Award-winning author Pack by Roald Dahl (author) (UK edition)

A Roald Dahl classic which fizzes and crackles with magic! Have you ever mixed a horrid potion in the garden or the playground? Now one boy, George, is making the yuckiest potion of all time. Floor polish, animal pills, shaving soap, extra hot chilli: they’re all going into the mix! What is this hideous brew? Well – it’s medicine for George’s granny: a slug-crunching bully who loves to torment him. But will it make her horrid temper better? Hmm – Granny is sizzling. She’s swizzling. And now she’s shooting through the roof…

An all-time classic: one of Dahl’s most famous tales

A really magical, stimulating pick for growing readers

Trademark Dahl: wildly funny and fizzing with drama

Blends a short, simple text with imaginative fireworks

Thirty copies of this classic children’s book to accompany Read & Respond: George’s Marvellous Medicine.

Product Details

Catalogue number

2396 in Education Catalogue 2023–24

Series

Read & Respond Children's Book Packs

Format

Paperback

Condition

New

UK edition

In this pack

George's Marvellous Medicine
Award-winning author

eur prices

Price: €9.35

gbp prices

Price: £7.20

Part of this Series

Read & Respond Children's Book Packs

Author/Illustrator

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales on September 13th 1916. His parents were Norwegian, and were called Harald and Sofie. He went to Repton school, in Derbyshire, and left school in 1933.

His first job was in Africa, with the Shell Oil Company. In the second world war he fought as a fighter pilot, and was badly injured when his plane crashed. After the war he worked in America, and soon started writing stories.

His very first children’s book, written in 1943 was called The Gremlins. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the President of the USA liked it so much he was invited to the White House and became friends with the President, Franklin D Roosevelt.

He wrote a number of books and short stories for adults, many of which were televised as the hugely popular Tales of the Unexpected.

But it was as a children’s author that he found greatest fame and satisfaction, saying “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers…Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.” Millions of fans around the world agreed and have chuckled and gasped at his amazing stories. His mesmerising stories, written in sizzling, sparkly language, will lead you into adventures you’ll never ever forget!

From 1945 until his death, he lived at Gipsy House, in Buckinghamshire, where he wrote his famous children’s books. He died in hospital in Oxford, on November 23rd, 1990. His books have continued to be read and loved, and have been made into a number of hit films, including Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You can even visit the Roald Dahl Museum in the village where Dahl lived for most of his life.

In 2009 the Roald Dahl Funny Prize was established in his memory.