Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again is a children's novel written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is a continuation of Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. Boyce was commissioned by the Fleming family to write this sequel. The book was first published by Macmillan Children's Books in 2011. Mr. Tooting has just been fired from his job, much to the dismay of Mrs. Tooting, moody daughter Lucy, whizz-kid Jem, and little Harry. Instead of looking for a new job, he instead decides to fix things around the house. But when all of his "fixes" turn into disasters,
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,