To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The David Williams books are exciting and engaging and never fails to impress with the brilliant content and illustrations. David’s books have now exceeded 100 non-consecutive weeks at children’s number one, and have been translated into 53 languages, selling more than 35 million copies worldwide. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. In 2008 David’s first children’s book The Boy in the Dress was published, illustrated by Quentin Blake.

I was sceptical at first that the child character was such a brat and the parents were the nice ones (as Roald Dahl normally has nice children as the main character) but my kids loved it.David Walliams is pictured at the unveiling of a special edition Royal Mail postbox celebrating his literary work outside London's Natural History Museum, which features in his book The Ice Monster . An explosively funny, totally surreal Tall Story about two perfectly nice parents and their unbelievably monstrous daughter from the phenomenal bestselling author David Walliams and illustrated by artistic genius, Tony Ross.

Initially I had bought a few of the David Walliams books for my son as was recommended in the school read list. David's brand new book Fing is a delightfully daft story with laugh-out-loud Walliams fun on every page!To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. He has gone on to take the children’s literary world by storm, dominating sales charts and twice winning the National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year. bestselling author David Walliams - a deliciously daft Tall Story of a child who had everything, but still wanted more. Subsequently, have bought most of the DW books for the kids and see them reading the books repeatedly, which has been a good diversion from being hooked onto gadgets.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Their desperate quest leads to the depths of the jungliest jungle where the rarest creatures can be found.Mr and Mrs Meek will do anything to keep their darling daughter happy, even visit the spooky library vaults to delve into the dusty pages of the mysterious Monsterpedia . Since the publication of his ground-breaking first novel, The Boy in the Dress (2008), Walliams has seen unprecedented growth with global sales exceeding 40 million copies, and his books translated into 53 languages. He went to art school in Liverpool and has since worked as a typographer for design and advertising agencies. In a career spanning over 40 years he has provided pictures for David Walliams and Francesca Simon’s Horrid Henry series amongst many, many others. His tenth novel, BAD DAD, was an immediate number one, following the triumph of THE MIDNIGHT GANG, the biggest-selling children’s book of 2016.

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Best-known for his novels for children including Mr Stink, Billionaire Boy and Awful Auntie, Walliams has also written a number of picture books including The Slightly Annoying Elephant, working with two of Britain’s most talented illustrators, Quentin Blake and Tony Ross.David and Tony also collaborated on the 2017 World Book Day title, BLOB, and on the blockbuster collections The World's Worst Children 1, 2 and 3, The World's Worst Teachers and The World's Worst Parents. Since the publication of his ground-breaking first novel, The Boy in the Dress (2008), Walliams has seen unprecedented growth with global sales exceeding 45 million copies, and his books translated into 55 languages. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. He took up swimming in his youth because he was overweight, and has subsequently completed long distance swims of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar and the River Thames, raising millions of pounds for charity! They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.