George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

George Kranky is stuck at home with his Grandma, who is a “grizzly old grouch” with a mouth “like a dog’s bottom.” She spends her days terrifying George with stories about eating bugs and being a witch.

• • The Invention: Fed up with her bullying, George decides to replace her usual medicine with something truly special.

  • The Ingredients: George travels through the house, adding everything he can find: toothpaste, shaving foam, floor polish, horseradish sauce, animal medicines, and even dark brown paint for color.

  • The Result: After boiling the mixture, he feeds it to Grandma. Instead of curing her irritability, she grows as tall as a house, bursting through the roof.

  • Author.  Roald Dahl
  • Language : English
  • Genre: Children novel fantasy
  • Publication :10 January 1981
  • George’s Marvellous Medicine taps into the secret desire many children have to stand up to a bully—even if that bully is a relative. It’s pure, chaotic wish-fulfillment.