After my review, I have images from the sequels (in which Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's original engine is put in a camper van before being restored to her original body in the third book) as well as the original cover and interior art from another favorite of mine, the amazing John Burningham. Candlewick Press has reissued the original and the sequels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time, with new illustrations by Joe Berger. While I have read one or two 007 books and seen more than a few of the movies, I had never read or seen the movie (which IS NOT a Disney production) or musical of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! When I heard that Frank Cottrell Boyce, a favorite of mine, was writing updated sequels to the book, I had to give it a go. Fleming wrote it for his son, who was ten at the time, while he was convalescing from his first heart attack. Ian Fleming published Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1964, the last two of his fourteen James Bond books in 1966.
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