George's Marvellous Medicine

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Kirka, Danica. "Critics reject changes to Roald Dahl books as censorship". abc NEWS . Retrieved 3 March 2023. To allow the children to observe swelling, just as the peach did, they could place a gummy bear in water and watch it grow as it absorbs the water. The Twits

Look at the cover of the book (if available). Based on the cover, what do you think will happen in the book? George manages to make the farm animals swell to gigantic sizes, could this solve the world food shortage? Can the children create their own pH scales using things found around the house? What happens when you combine liquids of different pH? This story also provides an excellent opportunity to discuss health and safety: should we eat things found around our homes? Danny the Champion of the WorldI absolutely loved the book, and when I read it I would burst into laughter. This is the second time that I have read this book, and I still enjoy reading it. The contraption used to scoop the tortoises is a perfect opportunity to explore levers and pulleys, with the children designing and building their own tortoise retrieving device. You may also be interested in...

Well... This lad George, yeah? He's got no choice. Poor George. That horrible crinkly old bag is so horrible to him!Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, who rose to prominence in the 1940's with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors. Fiery broth and witches brew, foamy froth and riches blue, fume and spume and spoondrift spray, fizzle, swizzle, shout hooray! Watch it sloshing, swashing, sploshing, hear it hissing, squishing, spitting, Grandma better start to pray." He begins to look all around the house and the barn for all sorts of medicines, lotions, creams, paints; just about anything he could get his hands on to mix up for the medicine. When he is finally complete, he gives the medicine to his granny, causing some rather unexpected results. It made George choke and splutter. It was a smell unlike any he had smelt before. It was a brutal, bewitching smell, spicy and staggering, fierce and frenzied, full of wizardry and magic. For example, in this book Grandma (who has been made gigantic through the Marvelous Medicine) hurls epithets at her family (who have remained normal size) and uses the phrase "miserable midgets" (p.61) which has now been changed to "miserable bunch" and later, after she has been shrunk, says "How would you feel if you'd been a glorious giant a minute ago and suddenly you're a miserable midget" (p.86), in which "a miserable midget" has been changed to "almost invisible." In the first case, the revision misses the crucial distinction of size, and in both cases they lose the alliteration (yet "glorious giant" remains, without its balancing partner - this is basic rhetoric and the "editors" don't get it).

After Grandma entirely disappears, we are told, "'That's what happens to you if you're grumpy and bad-tempered,' said Mr. Kranky. 'Great medicine of yours, George.'" (Grandma was George's father's mother-in-law, so you know.) I am currently trying to read all of Roald Dahl's books since he is such a phenomenal writer. This book was no exception. It was creative and mystifying. The concept was unique and very captivating and the book left me with wanting to read more. George's grandma bosses him around. George can't stand his grandmother and how she always treats him badly, so he decided to make a magic medicine to replace his grandma's normal medicine. He goes around his home and collects a variety of ingredients that are not food. He then adds brown paint to make the color the same as the original medicine. Children could explore density columns, changing the liquids they add to ensure separation. A really challenging version of this is to create different coloured concentrated sugar solutions to create a rainbow of colours in the jar.George didn't say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world."

Ah, exactly! And that's what this book is all about. Every day, George's grandma has to take a very special medicine. So, George decides to make her a brand new medicine. So, he runs around the farm, where he lives, finding all sorts of weird ingredients. Mmmm. I really like Roald Dahl but this book...is a little scary. I wouldn't let my child read it. Introducing the idea into a child's head to create a concoction to add to a liquid medicine someone is currently taking is not something I want to do. a b "World Book Day 2019: Roald Dahl's 10 best children's books, from Matilda to The Twits". The Independent . Retrieved 4 November 2019. The medicine doesn't make Grandma any nicer, but it DOES have a remarkable effect on her, and on every creature they give it to. George's dad wants him to make another batch, but there's a problem. George didn't write down the recipe. So every new batch he tries is missing something, and has a different effect when they test it on the farm animals.Clearly, alliteration is important in this book. It's all over the place - and just look at the title! Other instances of the literary device have also been destroyed: "horny hand" (in fact, it's "huge horny hand" on p.80) is apparently now "wrinkly hand" - which is not at all the same thing. And "the skinny old hag's head" (p.84) is just "her skinny old head." "Frisky as a ferret" has twice been changed (pp.60 & 63), first to "lively as a ferret," and the second instead makes reference to "a new lease of life." Ugh. Elsewhere a reference to George's father's "huge head" (p.49) has been removed. All fictional heads must be the same size, or if they are not, we can't possibly mention anything about the distinction. I mean, just imagine what might ensue if we didn't do this. This book still makes me laugh. And, until I read Roald Dahl, I didn't think it was possible for a book to make you laugh so much you fall of your chair, or pee your pants laughing. Yeah, I know. There are loads of funny books out there, and you can see which stories make you laugh the most. And who can blame him? I mean... Quentin Blake's illustrations REALLY show you how disgusting that grandma really is. a b Dellatto, Marisa (20 February 2023). "Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". Forbes. Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. ISSN 0015-6914. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023 . Retrieved 27 February 2023. The characters we meet face challenges in which they need creativity, imagination and perseverance to solve – skills we’d love to nurture in the children we teach.