If you cackled when George served up his explosive ‘medicine’ and Grandma got her comeuppance—plus those giant chickens rampaging about—you’ll love how Mr. and Mrs. Twit are outfoxed by their own nastiness. Like Grandma, they’re monstrously mean, and the story leans into outrageous, laugh-out-loud revenge that feels like poetic justice.

You enjoyed George tossing every bottle in the house into a pot and watching reality go haywire—Grandma stretching sky-high, farm animals mutating. In The Ogre Downstairs, two chemistry sets unleash mayhem in a blended family’s home: flying, body-swapping, and spells gone wrong. It’s the same joyful ‘uh-oh, what did we just mix?’ energy, with mishaps that spiral hilariously.

If you loved George’s single-minded quest to fix Grandma—with a plan that gets bigger and bigger until it takes over the whole farm—you’ll click with Sophie teaming up with the BFG to stop the man-eating giants. Like George’s concoction scheme, their plan escalates into a bold, funny caper involving dream-catching and a royal audience to save the day.

The breakneck chaos of George’s brew—one ingredient after another, each crazier than the last, and immediate, explosive results—finds a kindred spirit here. A dad goes out for milk and ends up time-hopping with pirates, aliens, and a stegosaurus in a hot-air balloon. It’s that same breathless, “and THEN this happened!” momentum you enjoyed when George’s mixture started transforming Grandma and the animals.

If the bizarre consequences of George’s medicine—like Grandma shooting through the roof and the chicken growing enormous—delighted you, you’ll enjoy Wayside School’s upside-down logic. In these stories, teachers might turn students into apples, classroom rules twist reality, and the impossible is treated as perfectly normal—all with the same cheeky, surreal bite.