![]() Thankfully I had some Waterstones points to order the book. I will be honest I have never read Chitty Chitty Bang Bang but I absolutely love the film and watched it again over Easter which made me think it was high time to read the book. Chitty and the eccentric, plucky Pott family set off on a succession of increasingly perilous adventures that take them across the English Channel and all the way to Paris. ![]() It looks like a wreck, but once restored it turns out to be no ordinary vehicle: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a magical car which can fly, swim and even think. “With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first car. Additionally, Fleming wrote the children’s story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books. He was a grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co.įleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. ![]()
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