George's Marvellous Medicine

One of the first chapter books I have read to my daughter that hasn't been about an animal rescue or zoo story, and quite different from those it is!

Dahl has dished up a rather sinister tale, in which (this is really not a spoiler) George mixes up a batch of medicine, of his own design, for his nasty old grandmother. Now mixing all sorts of household products not fit for consumption, let alone poisons and animal medicines is something we had a chat about, but because the overriding theme of this book (like most of Dahl's books come to think of it) is pro-kid and anti-abusive grandparent, I didn't have an issue with reading this with to her.

It is a pretty slow moving book, because it is initially about the selection of ingredients and concoction of the medicine, but it moves quickly on to the implications of the medicine, and then attempts to recreate the medicine.
4 stars.