George

George is the eight year-old main character of the novel. Kind, thoughtful, and disliking of his grandmother, George is left at home on Saturday morning by his mother in order to give Grandma her medicine at eleven o’clock. George decides to brew a medicine that will make Grandma a better person. Instead, the magical medicine that George brews causes Grandma to grow very tall, and farm animals to grow very large. George is encouraged by his father to make more medicine, but no succeeding batch is as good as the first. When Grandma mistakenly drinks the latest batch, George is not very troubled by this. Instead, he trembles with excitement because he has touched the magical world with the marvelous medicine he has made.

Grandma

Grandma is the grandmother of George, the mother of Mary, and the mother-in-law of Killy. Grandma is old, thin, angry, grumpy, selfish...