I don't think I've ever read George's Marvelous Medicine when I was a kid! Maybe I'll read my housemate one chapter a day... XD (I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda! and The Witches! and The BFG!) I haven't read his short stories -- I heard he had some books written for adults (or perhaps it was a collection of short stories) and they were kind of creepy and perverse?