"George's Marvellous Medicine George's Marvellous Medicine (known as George's Marvelous Medicine in the US) is a book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. First published in 1981, it was praised for its humour, but was also criticised for its underdeveloped plot and offbeat ending. It is one of Dahl's shorter children's books. Being a medical expert was one of what Dahl called his “dreams of glory”: he had huge respect for doctors and particularly those who pioneered new treatments. He dedicated the book to “doctors everywhere”. An audio reading of it was released with the actor Richard"
"Curious George Goes to the Hospital Curious George Goes to the Hospital is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1966. It is the seventh and final book in the original Curious George series, and tells the story of George's experiences in a hospital after swallowing a jigsaw puzzle piece. The book was written to ease the way for hospital-bound children. George wakes up one day to find a box on the desk. Upon opening it, he pulls out a colorful jigsaw puzzle piece, which he thinks is"
"opens it and finds it to be the puzzle piece he swallowed, which they successfully put where it belongs to complete the picture. Curious George Goes to the Hospital Curious George Goes to the Hospital is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1966. It is the seventh and final book in the original Curious George series, and tells the story of George's experiences in a hospital after swallowing a jigsaw puzzle piece. The book was written to ease the way for hospital-bound children. George wakes up one"
"Melanie's Marvelous Measles Melanie's Marvelous Measles is a self-published children's book written by Australian author and anti-vaccine activist Stephanie Messenger. Through its story, the book argues that contracting measles is beneficial to health, and that vaccines are ineffective, in contradiction to current scientific data. The book was first published in 2012, but came to attention in 2015 after the Disneyland measles outbreak began during December of the previous year. Many commentators have criticized the book because of the dangers associated with contracting measles, and because its title is reminiscent of ""George's Marvellous Medicine"", by Roald Dahl, whose daughter, Olivia Dahl,"
"many diseases that claimed so many lives in the past. Her children are also benefiting from the sensible precautions taken by the rest of us."" ""Melanie's Marvelous Measles"" is a self-published children's book written in 2012. The book argues that contracting measles is beneficial to health, and that vaccines are ineffective. The book came to attention in 2015 after the Disneyland measles outbreak began during December of the previous year. Many commentators have criticized the book because of the dangers associated with contracting measles, and because its title is reminiscent of ""George's Marvellous Medicine"", by Roald Dahl, whose daughter, Olivia"
"George's Secret Key to the Universe George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard. The book was followed by four sequels, ""George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt"" in 2009, ""George and the Big Bang"" in 2011, ""George and the Unbreakable Code"" in 2014 and ""George and the Blue Moon"" in 2016. It is intended for readers aged 10 and up. The main characters in the book are Susan, George, Eric, Annie, Dr. Reeper, and Cosmos, the world's most powerful computer. Cosmos can draw windows allowing people to look into outer"
"Jean Craighead George Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning ""Julie of the Wolves"" and Newbery runner-up ""My Side of the Mountain"". Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography published 30 years before her death, ""Journey Inward"". For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer she was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian"
"of one's environment, which he terms ""creative competence."" Children denied that form of play develop feelings of isolation and anxiety. He also believed that child-parent bonding is crucial, and sees modern clinical childbirth and lack of breast feeding as obstructions to that bonding. Pearce died in August 2016 at the age of 90. Joseph Chilton Pearce Joseph Chilton Pearce (January 14, 1926 – August 23, 2016) was an American author of a number of books on human development and child development and is best known for his books, ""The Crack in the Cosmic Egg"" (1971), ""Magical Child"" (1977) and ""The"
"be donated to the de Grummond Collection. H. A. Rey Hans Augusto Rey (born Hans Augusto Reyersbach; September 16, 1898 – August 26, 1977) was a German-born American illustrator and author, known best for the ""Curious George"" series of children's picture books that he and his wife Margret Rey created from 1939 to 1966. Hans Augusto Reyersbach was born in Hamburg, Germany, as was his wife Margret. Hans and Margret were German Jews. The couple first met in Hamburg at Margret's sister's 16th birthday party. They met again in Brazil, where Hans was working as a salesman of bathtubs and"
"Margret Rey Margret Elizabeth Rey (May 16, 1906 – December 21, 1996) was a German-born American writer and illustrator, known best for the ""Curious George"" series of children's picture books that she and her husband H. A. Rey created from 1939 to 1966. Margarete Elisabethe Waldstein was born in 1906 in Hamburg, the daughter of Gertrude (Rosenfeld) and Felix Waldstein. Her father was a member of the Reichstag. She studied art at Bauhaus in Dessau, While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book. The result, ""Cecily G."
"Joseph Chilton Pearce Joseph Chilton Pearce (January 14, 1926 – August 23, 2016) was an American author of a number of books on human development and child development and is best known for his books, ""The Crack in the Cosmic Egg"" (1971), ""Magical Child"" (1977) and ""The Bond of Power: Meditation and Wholeness"" (1981). He preferred the name ""Joe"". Pearce was born January 14, 1926, in Pineville, Kentucky, US. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He graduated with a BA from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, received a Master of"
"orange fruits and vegetables"". Another reason for the criticism is because the book's title resembles that of the book ""George's Marvellous Medicine"", by Roald Dahl, who was a strong proponent of vaccination. Dahl's daughter, Olivia, died from measles in 1962 and he later wrote an account of her death. Dahl later became an outspoken pro-vaccination advocate. ""Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it"", writes Dahl in 1988 in a pleading appeal to parents to vaccinate their children against measles. Actress Patricia Neal,"
"grades 4 to 6.[6] The Missouri award recognized four of her books from 1999 to 2012 (marked below by double dagger, double-dagger).[6] She currently resides near Mt. Rainier National Park in Washington State. Peg Kehret Peg Kehret (Margaret Ann Schulze, born November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 11 and 15. Peg Kehret was born on November 11, 1936 in La Crosse WI. After a normal childhood, she contracted polio at age 12 in 1949. She had each of the three types of polio: spinal, respiratory, and the least common kind, bulbar."
"children lessons and morals rather than capture their attention. With the increased use of illustrations and folk and fairy tales, children were enjoying reading and were enjoying Gatty's writing. Gatty suffered from ill health for most of her life, possibly from undiagnosed multiple sclerosis. Her frequent bouts of illness resulted in a close friendship with Dr George Johnston, who was noted for advocating pain-relieving medication. He advised her to use of chloroform during childbirth and Gatty became the first woman in Sheffield to use the drug during labour. Gatty was the mother of Juliana Horatia Ewing, also a writer of"
"go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."" Jean died on May 15, 2012 at the age of 92 from complications of congestive heart failure, according to Twig George, at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. Jean Craighead George Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning ""Julie of the Wolves"" and Newbery runner-up ""My Side of the Mountain"". Common themes in George's works are the environment and"
"children include ""James and the Giant Peach"", ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", ""Matilda"", ""The Witches"", ""Fantastic Mr Fox"", ""The BFG"", ""The Twits"" and ""George's Marvellous Medicine"". His adult works include ""Tales of the Unexpected"". Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (""née"" Hesselberg). Dahl's father had emigrated to the UK from Sarpsborg in Norway, and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s. His mother came over and married his father in 1911. Dahl was named after the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen. His first"
"Lindsay Barrett George Lindsay Barrett George (born June 12, 1952) is an American illustrator and author of children's books. George has achieved her greatest notoriety for her ""Long Pond"" and ""Who’s Been Here?"" series of books. Her books focus on the themes of nature and the lives of animals that inhabit it. The Library of Congress named George's book ""Box Turtle at Long Pond"" a Children's Book of the Year in 1989. George lives in the West Indies and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from The Beard School in Orange, New Jersey (now Morristown-Beard School) in 1972. George"
"Grace Hallock Grace Taber Hallock (April 10, 1893 – August 17, 1967) was an American children's writer of the early to mid-20th century. Many of her books explained health and science issues, including ""Florence Nightingale and the Founding of Professional Nursing"" and ""Marie Curie"" (both published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. as part of a series called ""Health Heroes""). She was born in 1893 on the farm that belonged to her parents, Robin W. Hallock and Isabel Taber Hallock. She lived there her whole life. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1914 and afterward helped organize the suffragette"
"George Davis (editor) George Davis (February 4, 1906—November 25, 1957) was an American fiction editor and novelist. The youngest of five boys (the eldest sibling, a sister, died of diphtheria before he was born) George Davis was born on February 4, 1906, in Chicago to parents who had moved there from Canada so that George's father could work as a pharmacist for a cousin who owned a pharmacy on Clark Street on the near north side. While working in the pharmacy at night, George's ambitious father went to medical school by day and graduated from the University of Illinois' College"
"Curious George (book) Curious George is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey, and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941. It is the first book in the Curious George series and tells the story of an orphaned monkey named George and his adventures with the Man with the Yellow Hat. The idea for Curious George came from an earlier Rey work, ""Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys"". One of the characters in that story is Curious George. Margret and Rey then decided to create a book entirely focused on Curious George, which was an"
"Curious George (book) Curious George is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey, and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941. It is the first book in the Curious George series and tells the story of an orphaned monkey named George and his adventures with the Man with the Yellow Hat. The idea for Curious George came from an earlier Rey work, ""Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys"". One of the characters in that story is Curious George. Margret and Rey then decided to create a book entirely focused on Curious George, which was an"
"Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, screenwriter, filmmaker, and artist, best known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Doctor Seuss (abbreviated Dr. Seuss) (). His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. Geisel adopted the name ""Dr. Seuss"" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at the University"
"George Mills (writer) George Ramsay Acland Mills (1 October 1896 – 8 December 1972) was a British preparatory schoolmaster and an author of children's adventure stories. His whimsical tales often revolve around boys' preparatory schools in Great Britain and often involve sports like cricket, pranks, and mysteries, as well as a beloved pet bulldog, Uggles. He was born in Bude, Cornwall and died in Devonshire. Mills is listed in the British Library as a ""Writer of Tales for Boys"". Books authored by Mills on the shelves of the British Library include ""Meredith and Co.: The Story of a Modern Preparatory"
"and King Kyle, Detectives Lewis and Papa: Adventure on the Santa Fe Trail Stars in the Darkness Nugget and Darling Barbara M. Joosse Barbara M. Joosse (born February 18, 1949) is an American children's writer. She has been writing for children for over thirty years. She has published thirty-eight books for children, both picture books and chapter books. Through her writing, she aspires to find the things that are the same, and the things that are different, between us all. She has toured worldwide to promote her books, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. She was born in Grafton,"
"literary estate of the Reys would be donated to the de Grummond Collection. Margret Rey Margret Elizabeth Rey (May 16, 1906 – December 21, 1996) was a German-born American writer and illustrator, known best for the ""Curious George"" series of children's picture books that she and her husband H. A. Rey created from 1939 to 1966. Margarete Elisabethe Waldstein was born in 1906 in Hamburg, the daughter of Gertrude (Rosenfeld) and Felix Waldstein. Her father was a member of the Reichstag. She studied art at Bauhaus in Dessau, While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of French"
"E. Grant narrating. While 8-year-old George's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kranky, are out running errands, George's maternal grandmother bosses him around and bullies him. She scares George by saying that she likes to eat insects and he wonders briefly if she's a witch. To punish her for her regular abuse, George decides to make a magic medicine to replace her old one. He collects a variety of ingredients from around the family farm including deodorant and shampoo from the bathroom, floor polish from the laundry room, horseradish sauce and gin from the kitchen, animal medicines, engine oil and anti-freeze from"
"Secret"" (2005) ""Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse"" (2006) ""In the Garden: Who's Been Here?"" (2006) ""Alfred Digs"" (2008) ""Maggie's Ball"" (2010) ""That Pup!"" (2011) (out of print) Lindsay Barrett George Lindsay Barrett George (born June 12, 1952) is an American illustrator and author of children's books. George has achieved her greatest notoriety for her ""Long Pond"" and ""Who’s Been Here?"" series of books. Her books focus on the themes of nature and the lives of animals that inhabit it. The Library of Congress named George's book ""Box Turtle at Long Pond"" a Children's Book of the Year in 1989. George lives"
"H. A. Rey Hans Augusto Rey (born Hans Augusto Reyersbach; September 16, 1898 – August 26, 1977) was a German-born American illustrator and author, known best for the ""Curious George"" series of children's picture books that he and his wife Margret Rey created from 1939 to 1966. Hans Augusto Reyersbach was born in Hamburg, Germany, as was his wife Margret. Hans and Margret were German Jews. The couple first met in Hamburg at Margret's sister's 16th birthday party. They met again in Brazil, where Hans was working as a salesman of bathtubs and Margret had gone to escape the rise"
"Missing Scientist Game"" (1988) was based on this novel. Five Have a Wonderful Time Five Have A Wonderful Time (published in 1952) is a popular children's book written by Enid Blyton. It is the eleventh novel in the Famous Five series of books. George has caught a cold due to swimming in the sea in April and, as such, is unable to join Julian, Dick, and Anne on their planned caravan trip. The other children have already set up their caravans on a hill opposite Faynights Castle. George is on the mend from her cold, so she writes a postcard"
"George Whipple George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy ""for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia"". This makes Whipple the only Nobel laureate born in New Hampshire, and the first of several Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Rochester. Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire. Ashley Cooper Whipple was a physician, and"
"Nicole Georges Nicole J. Georges (born c. 1981 in Kansas) is an illustrator, writer, zinester, podcaster, and educator. She is well known for authoring the autobiographical comic zine ""Invincible Summer"", whose individual issues have been collected into two anthologies published by Tugboat Press and Microcosm Publishing. Some of her other notable works include the graphic memoirs ""Calling Dr. Laura"" and ""Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home"". In addition to this, Georges creates comics and teaches others how to make them, produces the Podcast ""Sagittarian Matters"", and illustrates portraits of animals. She currently divides her time between Los Angeles,"
"Greville MacDonald Greville MacDonald (1856 in Bolton – 1944), was the son of influential fantasy writer George MacDonald and his wife Louisa (née Powell). He has provided some interesting insights into his father's life and circle of friends. Greville was a notable ear, nose and throat doctor. In later life Greville became involved in the Peasant Art movement in Haslemere. Greville is famous for having read ‘Uncle Dodgson’s’ (Reverend Charles Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll) Alice in Wonderland when he was wondering whether to publish it. Greville’s mother read the book to the children to gauge its worth if"
"on to say her excellent characterization and sensitivity toward her characters make her books ""a solid contribution to American children's literature"". Doris Gates Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction. Her novel ""Blue Willow"", about the experiences of Janey Larkin, the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s California, is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner. A librarian in Fresno, California, Gates lived and worked among the people described in her novels. She is also known for her collections of Greek mythology."