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  • George's Marvelous Medicine

  • By: Roald Dahl
  • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
  • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (470 ratings)

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George's Marvelous Medicine

By: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
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Publisher's summary

A taste of her own medicine.

George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life - and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!

©2007 Roald Dahl (P)2007 Penguin Audio
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“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian...[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” (The New York Times)

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Awesome Job

I enjoy it because it’s so so sooooo funny nothing bad about the book I recommend

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quick and whimsy read.

this book is a true classic. George is the best kid and Grandma is crazy mean! magical and whimsy and well narrated! one of my favorites!

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Feel like a kid again!

In my mind this was one of the best stories my parents read to me! It just feel like something any kid would want to do - mix up some sort of brew with random ingredients.
I have gifted this book to so many kids because I just feel that every child should have this story in their world. Roald Dahl just had such great imagination and story telling abilities. That is the reason his stories are so popular to this day, and it is the reason they will continue to do so decades from now.

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Good for kids and adults!

It was a fun one! Great for a couple hour drive with the kids. We were entertained the entire time and the ending had us laughing as we arrived at grandma's house!

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Such a fun story and Derek Jacobi is brilliant!

The tale is a great Dahl story all wacky and silly and fun. Derek Jacobi is perfect reading it. I loved it.

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MUST READ

This... Is... Amazing!!!!!! You must read the book!!!

Seriously, you must read this book.

If you read this review I highly recommend you read the book thank you for reading

Alex

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One of the best audiobooks! Electrifying!

Absolutely transforms the story...the characters jump off the page. My whole family enjoyed this book and couldn't believe there was just one actor telling story. Highly recommend it!

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It was amazing story

It is such a great book my whole family loves it . I love it so much because it is a very fun story to read

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Loved it😍😍

I loved how many times I could re listen to it great for bedtime or long car rides

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Great narration

He had great impersonations of all the characters this book is the best book ever.

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