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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Paperback]

Ian Fleming
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin; New Ed edition (1 Mar 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141313579
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141313573
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 138,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The car is magical. So is the book. (Vogue )

From the same stable as Thunderball et al: same excitement, same wonderful imagination. The car really lives (Scotsman )

Super-wicked villains ... hairsbreadth escapes (Telegraph ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Pssst . . . want to know a secret?

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang isn't any ordinary car.

It can swim. And fly. It can even think for itself!

Chitty's owners, the Pott family, love adventures. But they've never come across gangsters and explosions and secret underground lairs before! So when they find themselves in a desperate chase to stop the gangsters' evil plan, they know where to turn.

Chitty to the rescue!


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Most motor-cars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and petrol and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday. Read the first page
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Charming and delightful, 10 Feb 2004
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Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This is the story of Commander Caractacus Pott, a highly eccentric inventor, and his family. When they acquire a broken-down old automobile, Commander Pott goes to work on it, and seemingly with the help of the automobile itself, he rebuilds it into a car that is more than a little bit magic. Due to the sound it makes when it starts up, the Pott children name the car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! However, a trip in this car is like nothing you can imagine, anything can happen, and something fantastic invariably will! And so it's off to adventure and danger!

This is a charming and delightful children's story, one that you could hardly imagine was written by Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond books! My kids love this whimsical story and yours will too. My family highly recommends this book to yours. 5 stars.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic flies again, 25 July 2008
After many years of being out of print, this is a sumptuous new edition of the ORIGINAL tales about the magical car.

Written in the early sixties for his son, Ian Fleming's stories were originally published as three separate books. This anthology combines them into one thrilling adventure.

For those who only know the film, it will be a surprise to discover how far the script of the film departs from Fleming's book. Roald Dahl contributed to the script (although he is said to have been unhappy with it)and it is tempting to imagine Truly Scrumptious and the child catcher are his inventions. They are certainly not Flemings.

In the original story - set in the '60's, the Pott family (including a live-and-well mother) rescue a derelict car and become emboiled in the gangster Joe The Monster's plots to steal sweets from Monsieur Bon Bon's sweet shop in Paris. There are guns and explosions, kidnappings and all sorts of mortal dangers...and the whistling sweets are in there too!

And the car does of course fly and float, with perfect timing!

Burningham's astonishing illustrations were not used when designing the film car. His green dragon of a car is a magnificent eccentric creation none the less and the whole book should be on every young boy's bookshelf.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 8 Dec 1999
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I thought the book was very well written, and the illustrations helped the book along. The story is very different to the film but still good. However, I was most surprised to find that the book was adapted for beginning readers by Al Perkins and not the original book by Ian Flemming.
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