Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang 3 April 2011, starring Imogen Stubbs as the voice of Chitty and Alex Jennings as Caractacus Potts. Sequels (2011, 2012 and 2013) Three sequels to Fleming's work have been written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. The first—"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again"—was published on 7 October 2011. The second, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time" was released on 27 September 2012. A third sequel, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon" was released on 26 September 2013. 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
Story within a story version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" uses a story within a story format to tell a purely fantastic fairy tale within a relatively more realistic frame-story. The film version of "The Wizard of Oz" does the same thing by making its inner story into a dream. Lewis Carroll's celebrated "Alice" books use the same device of a dream as an excuse for fantasy, while Carroll's less well-known "Sylvie and Bruno" subverts the trope by allowing the dream figures to enter and interact with the "real" world. Some stories feature what might be called a literary version of the Droste effect,