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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
Another classic Roald Dahl book. Sweet story with lots of imagination.
My five year old did really enjoy this but it's not particularly memorable.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
This was a lot of fun!
I remember this book was funny as a kid. I read it to my kids and it was so funny to see their reactions. There were points where they were almost laugh crying. It’s so over the top and so silly. They absolutely loved it and it was entertaining for me too.
Roald Dahl writes a lot of whacky, fun books but this one just wasn't it for me. I found it somehow incredibly disturbing and the ending was terrible. This one wasn't my cup of tea.
This was a lot of fun, but my boring parent-mode keeps kicking in when I consider how old I would want Ellie to be before she should read a story that involved a boy mixing every ingredient in the bathroom, plus most other liquids he can find in the house, into a "medicine" that he then feeds many living creatures. The story was cute and fun and I'm sure kids would get a kick out of it. I'm just probably going to think for a few years whether it's any better or worse than, say, Home Alone or similar stories kids shouldn't duplicate. Maybe it's harmless. I'll have to think about it more.
Fun book to read to my young kids; imaginative in how a boy could haphazadly invent medicines that have such wacky effects. But aside from the fun mad-scientist bits, it's an odd story to read to my kids because of how unkindly it treats the grandma character. Yes she's snipe-ish and unpleasant, but I found the ending unsatisfying, with her shrinking away to nothing and her own daughter so quickly deciding that it's probably for the best that she mysteriously disappeared.
I don't usually get all huffy about the insensitive or not-politically-correct elements of Roald Dahl's books, but this story didn't have much to redeem itself from its unforgiving treatment of the grandma. Meh.
I don't usually get all huffy about the insensitive or not-politically-correct elements of Roald Dahl's books, but this story didn't have much to redeem itself from its unforgiving treatment of the grandma. Meh.
Always one of my favourites, even better when reading it for the 2nd time with my daughter
A quick, charming read from Roald Dahl. Fast paced and captivating. Easy for kids to follow the sequence of events and imagine themselves as George.
