George's Marvellous Medicine (Colour Edition)

Author: Roald Dahl

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Price : $16.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780141335582
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Puffin Books
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Weight (g) : 0.35
Publication date : April 2011
Dimensions : 264mm X 212mm X 7mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 16.95
Availability date : September 2015
Out of print date : February 2016
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Author : Roald Dahl
Series : Colour Edition
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Edition : 1
Illustrator : Quentin Blake
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Dewey classification : 823.914
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Pages : 96
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Description

Most grandmas are kind and helpful ladies. Not George's grandma. She's a grumpy and grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson. So when it's time for her medicine, George concocts a bubbling, frothing, marvellous mixture, which is guaranteed to send her through the roof...

Author description

Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the UK's most celebrated artists, renowned for his collaboration with Roald Dahl. He is visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art and lives in London.

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The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.