The novel was illustrated by John Burningham and published in October 1964, two months after Fleming’s death (from another heart attack, on Caspar’s twelfth birthday). Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! The Magical Car follows the Pott family-father Caractacus (“the Commander”), mother Mimsie, and twins Jeremy and Jemima-and their semi-autonomous, gadget-laden car. While recuperating in a south coast hotel, he set down some of the nightly bedtime stories he invented and told to his son Caspar.
In April 1961, amid a lawsuit disputing the authorship of Thunderball, Ian Fleming suffered a major heart attack. The illustrations on display are from a picture book tie-in to the film, adapted for beginning readers by Al Perkins. Nor is it the 1968 film starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howe.
This is not Ian Fleming’s novel, his only work for children. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, illustrated by Barney Tobey, is on display at the New-York Historical Society.
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