Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham. It was initially published in three volumes, the first of which was released on 22 October 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London. Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called "Chitty Bang Bang", built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park. Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming
Bang the Drum Slowly Harris writing the screenplay. "Bang the Drum Slowly" was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by "Sports Illustrated" and is the most popular of the four books published in this series, according to the "Los Angeles Times". The last line of the novel, "From here on in I rag nobody", was ranked number 95 on "American Book Review"′s "100 Best Last Lines from Novels" in 2008. Harris played baseball as a boy and often wrote about the game and was known for writing realistically about the sport in his novels. For this novel, Harris chose