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Book Review

Title: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Genre: Fiction
Characters:George Kranky,Mr. Killy Kranky,Mrs.
Krany,Grandma
Setting:Goerge’s House

Plot: In the beginning of the story, Mrs.Kranky and
Mr.kranky left to do their jobs. After hearing that, he
gets annoyed because he had to spend his time with
his grandma who he didn’t like. In fact, he would do
anything other than talking to his grandma. He then
remembers that he had to feed his grandma a medi-
cine at 11 o'clock but he didn’t want to. He hated his
grandma because she always said things that are not
true such as, eating worms is good for you. George
knew that was a lie. She would even say things like
getting older is a sign of being weaker and that is why
she isn’t very tall. When it was about time to give
medicine to his grandma, he wondered how he could
make his grandma eat her own words. He then decid-
ed that he would mess with his grandma’s medicine by
putting anything in her medicine.
“The Rule Would Be This:
Whatever he saw,
If it was runny,
Or powdery,
Or gooey, er.
It went in. My favorite part: My favorite part
He then put everything he saw into his grand- was when George gave the medicine to his
ma’s medicine. When it was time, he gave it to his grandma.
grandma and then her grandma took the medicine. Why I like this part: I like this part because
Nothing happened to her grandma but after a few sec- George’s grandma expected nothing to hap-
onds her head started to pop out really high and it pen but what happened to her was very un-
went to the top of one floor. Then she was very sur- expected.
prised and her head popped out even more to the top My favorite character: My favorite character
of the roof. And at exactly that moment George’s par- was George.
ents came back home and were very surprised when Why is he/she/it my favorite character:
they saw their mom’s head so tall that it was on top of George is my most favorite character because
their head. George then told his parents about what he was the one who caused all the mischief in
had happened and his father thought that maybe if the story.
they put the opposite of what they put in the medicine, Recommendation: I would recommend this
maybe it would turn her neck back to how it was be- book to my friends because this book has a
fore. He also said that he wanted to use the medicine lot of funny parts and it has a lot of unex-
on his pigs so he could make his pigs bigger and also pected twists.
so that he could sell more pigs. The medicine does all
sorts of things to the animals and also his grandmoth- - Himal Basnet