chitty chitty bang bang ian fleming 1964

However, Jemima and Jeremy must return to boarding school before the car can even be delivered. So good that the Commander takes the family out car shopping and, after starting on a more traditional path, the family find themselves at the garage of a once famous racing car driver who is on the brink of sending his beloved hunk of metal to the scrap yard when Commander Pott falls in love with it. However, when the Commander sells his Crackpot Whistling Sweets to Lord Skrumshus, owner of Skrumshus Limited candy company, he is paid one thousand pounds and 'an additional one sixpence on every thousand Crackpot Whistling Sweets sold,' which is not unreasonable seeing as how 'Skrumshus Limited sell five million every year of just one of their sweets called the Chock-a-Hoop,' so things are looking pretty good for the Potts. After my review, I have images from the sequels (in which Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's original engine is put in a camper van before being restored to her original body in the third book) as well as the original cover and interior art from another favorite of mine, the amazing John Burningham.

Candlewick Press has reissued the original and the sequels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time, with new illustrations by Joe Berger. While I have read one or two 007 books and seen more than a few of the movies, I had never read or seen the movie (which IS NOT a Disney production) or musical of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! When I heard that Frank Cottrell Boyce, a favorite of mine, was writing updated sequels to the book, I had to give it a go. Fleming wrote it for his son, who was ten at the time, while he was convalescing from his first heart attack. Ian Fleming published Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1964, the last two of his fourteen James Bond books in 1966.

Chitty chitty bang bang ian fleming 1964