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Geordie's Mingin Medicine: George's Marvellous Medicine in Scots
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Geordie's Mingin Medicine: George's Marvellous Medicine in Scots

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GEORDIE'S GRANNIE
WIS A GRABBIE CRABBIT
AULD WUMMAN WI
peeliewally broon teeth and
WEE SNIRKIT-UP
MOOTH like a
DUG’S BAHOOKIE.

As far as she’s concerned, Geordie can do nothing right. But when it’s time for him to give her a dose of her daily medicine, Geordie decides to mix up a concoction from his own recipe, with astonishing results! Sit back and watch what happens when Grannie takes a spoonful of Geordie’s magic broon brew in Matthew Fitt’s hilarious translation.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherItchy Coo
Release dateAug 18, 2016
ISBN9781845028916
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Geordie's Mingin Medicine: George's Marvellous Medicine in Scots
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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) es un autor justamente famoso por su extraordinario ingenio, su destreza narrativa, su dominio del humor negro y su inagotable capacidad de sorpresa, que llevó a Hitchcock a adaptar para la televisión muchos de sus relatos. En Anagrama se han publicado la novela "Mi tío Oswald" y los libros de cuentos "El gran cambiazo" (Gran Premio del Humor Negro), "Historias extraordinarias", "Relatos de lo inesperado" y "Dos fábulas". En otra faceta, Roald Dahl goza de una extraordinaria popularidad como autor de libros para niños.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The story is about eight-year-old George, who is left at home with his unpleasant grandmother while his mother goes shopping. Dahl acknowledges that most Grandmas are nice people, but this one is one of his classic nasty creations, who treats her grandson very badly. I read this aloud to my three-year-old grandson and he liked it so much that he asked for it again a day later. The book quickly becomes silly, as George decides to make some new medicine, and fills a large pan with the contents of every bottle and can that he can find around the house. Each item is listed in some detail, much of which I skipped on my first reading aloud. The results are then bizarre, increasingly so towards the end. Recommended as a read-aloud to any child who likes short chapter books with line drawings every few pages, and who appreciates the bizarre and absurd. Also good for fluently reading children; the intended readership is probably for those around seven to nine years old.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl, George is a little boy who's grandma always tells him that he's growing too fast. He couldn't help growing too fast and that's why he really hates his grandma. George makes a medicine to try to fix his grandma but it doesn't go as planned. It's a really nice book and it's funny reading about what actually happens to his grandma after George secretly gives the medicine to his grandma. It's a very funny and unusual book and I definitely recommend reading it if you like unusual things happening in a story. I absolutely love the books by Roald Dahl!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book is about George's marvelous madicine.He made a medicine but it make you tall and short and so on... This book is very fun to read.. I promise you that you will love this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is one of my favoirte of Roald Dahl's books. It is inventive, clever, with a slight hint of malice, which is what I love about Dahl's books. A very funny book that has the main characteristic of all Dahl's books that the children are brilliant and the adults all slightly dumb and daft. George's marvelous medicine is fun for all ages as most of Dahl's books are. Its also fun to read aloud if your teaching someone to read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I love this story although it is actually twisted. It makes me wonder what was going on in Dahl's mind.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    george is up to some tricks when he puts tons of things together to make a potion for his mean old aunt/grandma. dahl's a great lister, and the things he puts into the concoction is marvelous indeed.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A lesser Dahl, but good fun nevertheless. Not perhaps one that ages with the reader as well as others.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A fantastic use of words that allow the younger reader to engage in a short, humourous read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    When George Kranky is left alone with his vicious maternal grandmother, and he gets the notion in his head to poison her, things get a little weird. Wavering between wanting to kill her and wanting to just knock her socks off, he blends all manner of ingredients whose warning labels typically say “In case of accidental ingestion, contact the poison control center.” The end result, though, is his marvelous medicine, which, instead of killing his grandmother, gives her great height. When his parents notice that it also increases the size of the family’s farm’s livestock, George’s father demands that George reproduce the wonderdrug. However, George is not a big pharmaceutical company with rigorous quality control and confguration management practices, so he spends the rest of the book trying to re-create his marvelous medicine.I found this book to be one I would hesitate reading to a child. While it has the strong message of “stay the heck out of the medicine cabinet,” it does nothing to counteract the message of “poison the elderly.” I’d be too afraid of a child taking this book to heart, and getting a chemical cocktail for breakfast (or even worse, them creating chlorine gas by accident).I’m sure the book can be read in good fun, but the general theme seems like one not best delivered to children, unless they’re smart enough to realize that such a thing wouldn’t happen. This book probably should have the poison control hotline’s number printed on the back or something.As far as the prose itself goes, I found the story to be a bit dull and at times excessively dark. George is certainly no Charlie or James. In my mind, this goes up there with other misses by Dahl, which sad to say, has been roughly 50% of the books of his I’ve read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    So Grandma is disabled and suffers from dwarfism and chronic pain. She scares George and he sets out to poison her. A deeply subversive novel that encourages children to play around with chemicals under the sink and perform experiments on animals. Great stuff.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Classic, zany fantasy story from the incomparable Roald Dahl. Children will squeal with delight and groan with disgust as George raids every room in the farmhouse to create his crazy medicinal concoction for grandma. Quentin Blake's whimsical drawings are perfect, as always, but the real standout, is Dahl's use of language and how he skillfully deploys his trademark sequences of synonyms - not only to provide humour, but to extend and expand the reader's or listener's vocabulary. An all-time favorite for both children and adults. Makes a great read-aloud or Readers' Theatre production.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    George's Marvelous Medcine is about a little boy called George Kranky and his mother and father go out, and George has to give his grandma her Medcine at 11:00.He looks at the bottle and thinks then his grandma asks for some tea so he makes her some tea but forgets the saucer and the spoon so bak he goes to the kitchen.He has an idea to give her a diffrent medcine and it is really funny.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    George's concoction should have killed grandma, but instead it has more surprising and hilarious jokes. Dahl's tales hardly turn out how we expect and going with it is where the fun lies.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    George’s grandmother is a really nasty piece of work. One day, George is left on his own to look after her, and after being nagged once too often, he decides to get revenge and using various items he finds lying around the house, he creates a disgusting potion to give to her in place of her usual medicine.

    Here’s where the fun really begins as the medicine has all sorts of different effects on Grandma - George must try to make medicine to make her shrink again. He mixes and blends and combines the various ‘ingredients’ he used in his original blend to try to find a cure, but this might prove difficult…

    In the days of ‘PC gone mad’ I’m sure there are plenty of people who frown upon this story, although the book does contain a message in the front just before the story starts warning children not to try making their own medicine at home! As an adult, I love the dark nature of Dahl’s stories. This one is one of my favourites so far!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Another imaginative story by Roald Dahl.

    George's grandmother is always ordering him around. Get this, do that, go here, and complaining. She is never happy.

    What if he could come up with a new medicine that would make her happy? Or make her go away?

    A quick read for an adult, but fun. Definitly from a child's point of view.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    George’s Marvelous Medicine is a Roald Dahl classic. It is cute and funny but not one of my favorites of Dahl’s (I tend to prefer his books for older kids). I also got a little queasy at the idea of encouraging kids to mix household cleaners and motor oil together as a medicine. Most children will realize that it’s just humor, but this book is written for a rather young audience and some kids may still be adventurous enough to try something similar themselves. In short, make sure you know what your kid is reading, and have pertinent discussions about truth and fantasy. In the unlikely scenario that you don’t know anything about Roald Dahl: he has a dark (and gross) sense of humor. His books tend to be a bit silly plot-wise, but children just gobble them up. Dahl is a great writer for getting kids interested in reading. He has written a range of books for younger and older kids, and this book is for perhaps 6-8 year olds. If you don’t mind a bit of gross yuckiness and a wide range of purposefully unlikable adult characters, Roald Dahl has written some great ones!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Re-read this book after talking about childhood authors and thoroughly enjoyed it again.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book is interesting and filled with good humor. I would recommend this book to everybody both young and old. I like how Roald Dahl writes his stories and I also enjoy his variety of interesting word choice.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The main character of the book is George and he tries to get rid of his grandma by making a medicine of everything he can find. This story is funny because he gets every thing he can and puts it in the medicine pot. You would like this story if you like funny books and weird ones too.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This edition, "Geordie's Mingin Medicine" is a translation into Scots dialect of Roald Dahl's humourous fantasy tale for children, "George's Marvelous Medicine". From the jacket notes on the Itchy Coo edition, "Geordie's Grannie wis a grabbie crabbit ault wumman wi peeliewally broon teeth and a wee snirkit-up mooth like a dug's bahookie. She wis aye compleenin, girnin, greetin, grummlin and mulligrumphin aboot somethin or ither. She wis a meeserable auld grumph." And so the story continues, in the vernacular Scots dialect which is seldom heard now except when speaking to elderly Scots in certain regions. Best enjoyed when read aloud by a Scotsman or woman who can go with the flow, make the most of the dialect, and enjoy the wild exaggerations and hilarious events of the story.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Not my favorite Dahl book, but still a cute, quirky read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    What more can I say other than Roald Dahl is a writing genius! Again, Dahl delivers a fun, humorous and creative story spun with magic and wonder. If only I could tap into his writing muse and channel his creativity my way. The characters are fun, simple yet memorable. The descriptions are carefully crafted and consistent with Dahl's collection of colorful stories. This book is yet another example of how Dahl takes the time to include the simplest detail in which helps the reader to imagine the characters so alive and in color. This book is silly, gross, fun and simply wonderful! If you want to have some fun with kids, read this story.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    There is something about Raold Dahl's books that are delightful, and yet sinister in an awkward kind of way. George's Marvelous Medicine is one of those works. Dahl's story contains a single child George acting in a mean spirited manner to a family member he doesn't like.Giving his nasty, selfish grandmother a brewing concoction of medicine, she grows to un-heavenly heights and then using marvelous medicine number four, George and his father shrink granny out of existence.Interestingly, dad helps to get rid of maternal granny while mommy looks on asking "Where is she?" "I've lost her!" "Hooray" says Mr. Kranky. Daddy teaches George that when people are grumpy and nasty spirited, you simply poison them.I don't particularly like the moral of the story.But, I will continue to read Dahl's books because some of them are so creative.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of the best kids books of all time and what a cast of characters.

    A kid like we all were, a horrible scary grandmother that's ten times worse than anyone ever had and a father who is so feel of life and joy that he get away with calling his mother in law an old cow.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is are fantasy book. It makes your imagination go wild I recommend this book for year 3, 4,5, 6.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I can’t remember much about “George's Marvellous Medicine”, as I read it when at primary school, but I do recall how popular Roald Dahl was with most if not all of the class, and this book was amongst the most popular. For that reason I’m rating this four stars and hope I’m not being unjustified.I either read this or had it read to me (the equivalent to an audio book) or both somewhere from 1983-85, thus I’ve put 1984 as reading dates as an average. I will have read/heard a few of Mr Dahl’s books during this period, of which some titles I can’t remember at all.If I had to or wanted to re-read any children’s books for some reason or other then I’d definitely opt for works by this author. All these years on and he’s left a very faint yet happy memories in the back of my mind.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    George’s Marvelous Medicine. By Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Puffin. 1980. 96 pages. 978-0142410356. Grades 2-5.Left alone with his odious grandmother, George cooks up a magical concoction, composed of a whole host of household items (from hairspray and horseradish sauce to animal pills and antifreeze), to replace his grandmother’s medicine – not realizing the crazy consequences it will have. Dahl’s recurring theme of children’s triumph over malevolent adults is an enjoyable one for young readers. Blake’s scratchy line drawings help carry the story’s plot, even in their simplicity – his spiky-haired, claw-fingered grandmother is a perfect witch of a woman. The book’s language is expressive and fanciful, but the illustrations help make the work accessible for all readers – and the work would also make an entertaining read-aloud for a group of grade school children. The universality of Dahl’s themes and his grasp of childhood emotion have helped this work age well: its irreverent approach to adult figures makes it a timeless classic for young readers.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of the better shorter Roald Dahl chapter books, this one is about a boy who concocts a marvelous medicine that his grandmother greedily takes, ending up with some problematic consequences--that only get more problematic as his greedy father encourages him to reproduce his medicine and his grandmother ends up taking George's Marvelous Medicine Number Four with even worse consequences.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This book dosent make sens bekose it is a weard language like : bitjie its
    So please make it beter ?
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I'm going to rate this five stars because I think this is my favourite Roald Dahl book.

    The thing that I love about Roald Dahl is how respectful he is of children. He writes in such a way that acknowledges a child's intelligence, their intuition and how perceptive they are. And I love, that in all of that, Dahl can pick apart an adult's expectations or perceptions of the world and show that in some cases, they are flawed, and adults aren't perfect. Roald Dahl writes in a way that is creative, without being condescending, and I think that is essential in a brilliant children's novel like this.

    I love this book when I was a kid because I loved how cheeky George was, I loved the bizarre list of medicinal ingredients that he came up with. When I reread it a few years ago, I found that I still totally enjoyed it and giggled my way through it.

    So, yeah, overall it was an excellent read, and I would read it again. c: