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George's Marvelous Medicine

George's Marvelous Medicine

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Favorite book growing up
Review: I think every child and adult should read this book. It's hilarious and imaginative. Roald Dahl writes the best children books. This book also made want to go into science

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: I don't think so!
Review: I thought this book was funny, but not appropriate for children.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: George's marvelous medicine
Review: If you want to put it bluntly, this is not the book for impressionable youngsters or Grandma. Yet, this is a wonderfully quirky and hilarious for those who have a certainly quirky sense of humor. It is also a quick read. i could not say what its appropriate age level is because I didn't read it until I was sixteen, but mostly it is about maturity level. Super mature people probably will not like it and super immature people should not read it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: We did not like it.
Review: It was not funny. Hate and cruelty are not subjects for humor

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Taste of her Own Medicine!!!
Review: Meet George. He's young, he's bright, he's kind. He also lives at home with his horrible grandmother, a woman so awful that only the great imagination of Roald Dahl could have conceived her (she may even be WORSE than Mrs. Twit!! Hard call on that one...).

She really is terrible. "She was a selfish grumpy old woman. She had pale brown teeth and a small puckered-up mouth like a dog's bottom" (how's THAT for descriptive??). What's more, she's perfectly dreadful to George. She hurls astonishing verbal abuses at him, tells him terrible, frightening lies (like eating beetles and caterpillars is supposed to be good for him) and scares him half to death with her piercing stare and strange tales, "I know a great many secrets... Some of us know secrets that would make your hair stand straight up on end and your eyes pop out of their sockets..."

She is, in short, profoundly disgusting.

However, she is also old and feeble and requires a daily dose of brown medicine. One day, when left alone with her, George decides to cook up a NEW sort of medicine for her. So, he fetches the BIGGEST pot he can find and begins to put EVERYTHING (and I do mean EVERYTHING!) he can find into it. Including (but hardly limited to) a quart of brown glossy paint to disguise it as grandma's regular medicine.

The results are astonishing and truly Dahl. Grandma undergoes an astonishing transformation and the already-quick pace of the book gets even quicker!!

Though short, "George's Magnificent Medicine" is an absolute laugh riot the whole way through. Rarely do I laugh out loud when I read, even if the story is very funny. However, where THIS book is concerned, I was howling! Dahl's mastery of language and the illustrations by Quentin Blake make the story so vivid and alive and real, it's as if you're standing by watching the drama unfold. The pace is quick enough to keep everyone interested, even those folk who may not necessarily like to read. The slapstick action and timing of the story will keep even the most reluctant reader laughing and saying "oh, no! What next?!" Truly a wonderful book and highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I love this book and you should read it.
Review: This book is about a kid named George who has a grumpy attitude.He makes the perfect medicine that will cure his grandmother fast. When she takes the medicine she grows and grows and grows. Then she is happy but then she shrinks to nothing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I love this book!
Review: This book is about a normal kid named George and a snoty grandma who can't stop bossing him around so he makes a very weird mixture in replace of a medicien that she needs to take so she has a spoonful and grows so high she breaks through the entire house and she ends up having to be removed by a huge crane. My point is this book is GREAT!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: George's Marvelous Medicine
Review: This book is quite amusing. It is good for plenty of ages. I would recommend it to all kids who have read as much as
one Roald Dahl book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Roald Dahl's Marvelous Book
Review: This book is the best! I read it at the daycare center where I work to children ranging from 3 years old to 13 years. Everyone loved it. I am completing my degree in elementary education, and this book is highly recommended from professors as one for children to read. The creative plot of the story and imaginative vocabulary stimulate children's minds (adults as well). If you are a parent, buy this book and either read it to your child or let him/her read it to you. If you are a teacher, use this book in your classroom. This is one book that should not go unnoticed.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: VERY FUNNY!
Review: This book is very funny, also quite exciting. It is good for all ages even adults, Roald Dahl has done a good job here! The book is about George, a boy who does'nt like his grandmother very much, so he decides to make her some of his own medicine. Unfortunately it has a massive effect on her! (THAT I WON'T SAY)


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