Publisher details

Author: Ian Fleming
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Released: 24 May, 2014
ISBN: 9781447213758

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Synopsis

The original and best magical car is back on the road, with brilliant new illustrations 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 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 ever!

About the author

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency after which he worked briefly as a stockbroker before working in Naval Intelligence during the Second World War.His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and was an instant success. Fleming went on to write twelve other Bond books as well as two works of non-fiction and the children’s classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.The Bond books have sold over sixty million copies and earned praise from figures such as Raymond Chandler who called Fleming ‘the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England’ and President Kennedy who named From Russia with Love as one of his favourite books. The books inspired a hugely successful series of film adaptations which began in 1961 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007.Fleming was married to Anne Rothermere with whom he had a son, Caspar. He died in 1964.