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Summary
Roald Dahl's 1981 children's novel about eight-year-old George Kranky, who concocts a magical medicine in the family kitchen to cure his cantankerous grandmother of her foul temper. The brew causes first the grandmother and then the farm animals to grow to alarming sizes, leading to a series of chaotic experiments. A classic of Dahl's middle-grade catalogue, it pairs his trademark gross-out humor with a story about a child using ingenuity to solve an adult-shaped problem.