Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; the magical car.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, Random House [1964]Description: 111 p. illus. 25 cmISBN:- 0375832831
- 978-0375832833
- [Fic]
- PZ7.F5997 Ch
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Calispel Valley Library Juvenile Fiction | Calispel Valley Library | Book | J F FLEMING (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 50610016840097 | ||||
Standard Loan | Newport Library Juvenile Fiction | Newport Library | Book | J FLEMING (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 30001100732918 | |||
Standard Loan | Plummer Library Juvenile Fiction | Plummer Library | Book | FLEMING (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 24291 | |||
Standard Loan | St Maries Library Juvenile Fiction | St Maries Library | Book | FLEMING (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610012458639 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children's book--and it is a classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the name of the flying, floating, driving-by-itself automobile that takes the Pott family on a riotous series of adventures as they try to capture a notorious gang of robbers. This is a story filled with humor, adventure, and gadgetry that only a genius like Fleming could create. From the Hardcover edition.
Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.6 4.0 74980.
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Reviews provided by Syndetics
Horn Book Review
Fleming's rollicking story of the Potts family and their magical car is a great family read-aloud, with plenty of action. Unaccountably, John Burningham's original illustrations have been replaced by rather flat art. It's a pity that every chapter has the same opening picture of the family flying in the car--nothing like ruining the suspense of finding out just what makes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang so unusual. From HORN BOOK Spring 2004, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on May 28, 1908, in London, England. He attended Eton College and then the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He left there after a year to go study languages in Munich and Geneva.Fleming served as the Moscow correspondent for the Reuters News Agency from 1929 till 1933. he then became a banker and a stockholder in London until the beginning of World War II. When the war began, Fleming became the personal assistant to the Director of British Naval Intelligence, where he learned most of his espionage terms. When the war was over, he worked as the foreign manager of The Sunday Times in London.
Fleming wrote twelve James Bond novels, nearly all of which were made into Motion Pictures. His works included: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, and For Your eyes Only. He of died of a heart attack on August 12, 1964.
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