My friend Femke from The Netherlands came to visit me this weekend. So no time to finish an actual book. That's why I read another one of Roald Dahl's books. I found out I've been reading mostly young children's books by Dahl, simply because the others are slightly bigger as well. Regardless, this week I read George's Marvellous Medicine.
It's about George who wants to poison his annoying grandmother by making a concoction consisting of animal pills, stuff from the garage, stuff from the bathroom and some actual nice herb; to give it a brown colour he adds some brown paint. Of course grandmother does not die, instead she grows taller than a house. George gets a great idea and feeds the farm animals the same "medicine". They in turn grown big as well. When George's parents come home, his father is more than impressed with his skills and he tells George to make more, so that he can sell loads of the mixture; because farmers will be impressed by the size their animals will take on and the amount of meat it will sell.
Does the father know what happens to the meat that can now be taken from the animals. Will everyone grow due to the poison in the animals. Roald Dahl of course does not talk about this subject, but to me it is a very important part of the book. Genetic manipulation of animals anyone?
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