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  • Published: 18 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241610947
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $21.00

Penguin Readers Level 3: Roald Dahl George’s Marvellous Medicine (ELT Graded Reader)

Abridged Edition




A Penguin Readers ELT graded reading series of your favorite Roald Dahl characters and stories! Designed for learners of English aged 7+.

With carefully adapted text, illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

George's Marvellous Medicine, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.

\"Don't forget to give Grandma her medicine,\" says George's mother. Most grandmothers are kind, but George's grandmother is not. George is frightened of Grandma. But maybe he can make a new medicine for her, which will make her kinder. What will happen when Grandma takes George's Marvellous Medicine? Let's see!

  • Published: 18 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241610947
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $21.00

About the authors

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year’s Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.