George's Marvellous Medicine (Roald Dahl)

George's Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl with illustrations by Quentin Blake

Blurb: 'Whenever I see a slug on a piece of lettuce,' Grandma said, 'I gobble it up quick before it crawls away. Delicious.'

George's grandmother has the nastiest eating habits in the world. She's as frightening as a witch and as grumpy as a camel without a hump. When he can't stand this cantankerous old woman any longer, George decides to cure her nastiness once and for all. He concocts a vert special medicine which is as nasty as she is, and then he waits for the results!

ISBN: 014031492X (Paperback)

Year: 1981

Publisher: Puffin Books

Pages: 112 (Fiction)

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