Comic Strip Creation: Have the children create comic strips depicting their favourite scenes or moments from the book. Encourage them to use dialogue and captions to retell the story in a visual format. 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. Think about medicines that the children are familiar with. What do they do to our bodies? How can we use them safely? The miserable old grouch commanded George to go fetch her tea, give her her medicine and she forced him to eat cabbage (and George hates cabbage) but what is worse is that she tried to force him to eat crunchy, creepy crawlies (bugs and snails), with the cabbage.

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.

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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. One day, when George is put in charge of giving Grandma her medicine, he wonders if he can come up with his own remedy to try and help Grandma become less of a grump. It is one of Dahl's shorter children's books. While 8-year-old George's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kranky, are out running going shopping, George's maternal grandmother bosses him around and bullies him.

Both of those quoted passages are gone. Simply gone. The following four sentences remain unchanged: "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." - but this wordless reaction is NOT to his parents' shrugging and accepting response to the elimination of Grandma from the world, but rather to the much earlier puzzled reaction by his mother ("Mrs. Kransky kept wandering around with a puzzled look on her face, saying, 'Mother, where are you? Where've you gone? Where've you got to? How can I find you?'") He took a full tube of TOOTHPASTE and squeezed out the whole lot of it in one long worm. ‘Maybe that will brighten up those horrid brown teeth of hers,’ he said. There was an aerosol can of SUPERFOAM SHAVING SOAP belonging to his father. George loved playing with aerosols. He pressed the button and kept his finger on it until there was nothing left. A wonderful mountain of white foam built up in the giant saucepan. With his fingers, he scooped out the contents of ajar of VITAMIN ENRICHED FACE CREAM. In went a small bottle of scarlet NAIL VARNISH. ‘If the toothpaste doesn’t clean her teeth,’ George said, ‘then this will paint them as red as roses.’ 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. But she didn’t. There was a sort of scrunching noise, and bits of plaster and cement cameraining down. ‘Hadn’t you better stop now, Grandma?’ George said. ‘Daddy’s just hadthis whole room repainted.’ But there was no stopping her now. Soon, her head and shoulders had completely disappeared through theceiling and she was still going. George dashed upstairs to his own bedroom and there she was coming upthrough the floor like a mushroom.Look at the capacity of different containers… Which size container might George need to make a new medicine? What capacity would the container need to be to make medicine for all of his dad’s farm animals? George began to tremble. It was her face that frightened him most of all,the frosty smile, the brilliant unblinking eyes. ‘We know how to have you wake up in the morning with a long tailcoming out from behind you.’ ‘Grandma!’ he cried out. ‘Stop!’ ‘We know secrets, my dear, about dark places where dark things live andsquirm and slither all over each other…’ George made a dive for the door. ‘It doesn’t matter how far you run,’ he heard her saying, ‘you won’t everget away…’ George ran into the kitchen, slamming the door behind him. She scares George by saying that she likes to eat insects and he wonders briefly if she's a witch. To punish her for her regular abuse, George decides to make a magic medicine to replace her old one. He collects a variety of ingredients from around the family farm including deodorant and shampoo from the bathroom, floor polish from the laundry room, horseradish sauce and gin from the kitchen, animal medicines, engine oil and anti-freeze from the garage, and brown paint to mimic the colour of the original medicine. Write a set of instructions to teach someone how to make their own marvellous medicine? (see Resources below). Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books, announced it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today." [8] The decision was met with sharp criticism from groups and public figures including authors Salman Rushdie [9] [10] and Christopher Paolini, [11] British prime minister Rishi Sunak, [9] [10] Queen Camilla, [9] [12] Kemi Badenoch, [13] PEN America, [9] and Brian Cox. [13] Dahl's publishers in the United States, France, and the Netherlands announced they had declined to incorporate the changes. [9]

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. In George's Marvellous Medicine we meet young George who is burdened with the job of giving his Grandmother her daily medicine. Again Dahl has gone against the norm and written the Grandmother as a mean, snarling, despicable character rather than the sweet old lady we are accustomed to with book Grandmothers.

What’s the story?

George thought it best not to answer this one. He found a long wooden spoon in a kitchen drawer, and began stirring hard. The stuff in the pot got hotter, and hotter.

Design a label for the bottle of George’s Marvellous medicine. What information would it need to include? Then when grandma is about to drink the medicine that will kill her (at this point, Mom and george are trying to get her to not take it),Dad says, Each with a rather nasty smell. I’ll stir them up, I’ll boil them long,A mixture tough, a mixture strong. And then, heigh-ho, and down it goes, A nice big spoonful (hold your nose)Just gulp it down and have no fear. “How do you like it, Granny dear?”Will she go pop? Will she explode? Will she go flying down the road? Will she go poof in a puff of smoke? Start fizzing like a can of Coke? Who knows? Not I. Let’s wait and see.(I’m glad it’s neither you nor me.) Oh Grandma, if you only knew What I have got in store for you!’ PUFFIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (adivision of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL., England puffinbooks.com First published by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1981Published in Puffin Books 1982 This edition published 2007After 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.) When I was twelve years old I gave a mini presentation to my English class about this book. Afterwards it was time for questions, one annoying girl (who looked strangely like Princess Leia from Star Wars) persisted in asking me, several times, if I didn’t realise that this was a “kid’s book.” She couldn’t understand how I could be reading it at my age; she even went as far as to call me childish. I was terribly insulted. I didn’t know how to respond. She went after me and gave her presentation on The Golden Compass which she said, whilst looking at me, with her nose up in the air, was a book for adults. Her mum had read it after all.