Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car

Ian Fleming's beloved original text -- illustrated by Joe Berger

"Crackpot" is what everybody calls the Pott family. So when they go to buy a new car and come back with a wreck, nobody is surprised. Except for the Potts themselves. First, the car has a name. And she tells them what it is. Then they find out that she can fly. And swim. . . . Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a car on a mission to stop a criminal gang in its tracks -- and she is taking the Potts with her Jump into the world's most loved magical car for her first adventure.

Author: Ian Fleming
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/12/2013
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780763666668

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 74980 / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 02/28/2014 pg. 76

About the Author
Ian Fleming, famous for creating James Bond, also loved fast cars -- and this love spurred him to write his only children's book, for his little boy, Caspar, about a car that could fly. Published just after Fleming's death in 1964, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car became an immediate bestseller. It has been reinvented as a musical and as a film (with the screenplay written by Roald Dahl) and inspired two sequels written by Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Joe Berger is an editorial cartoonist, animator, and illustrator. He has illustrated numerous books, including the Nosy Crow title Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble by Tracey Corderoy. Joe Berger lives in England.