HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Billionaire Boy, Children's, Paperback, David Walliams, Illustrated by Tony Ross
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Description: A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and one of the fastest growing children's author across the globe. HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Billionaire Boy, Children's, Paperback, David Walliams, Illustrated by Tony Ross - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780007371082
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Dimensions: 129x198mm
Keywords: Boy in the Dress,diamonds,Billionaire Boy,crown jewels,grandparents,adventure,Roald Dahl,jewel thief,touching,silly,crime,funny,boys,jokes
ISBN: 9780007371082
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Author: wendy
Rating: 5
Review: As usual, a great read
Author: Mr. D. Mayson
Rating: 2
Review: I realise this will not be a popular opinion, since David Walliams seems to be inexplicably flavour of the moment, but I don't like his books. Others have commented on the unnecessary, inappropriate content - and no I didn't particularly want to have to explain page 3 girls to my son either - but I guess everyone is entitled to different notions of what is morally correct. But his writing style is terrible, to the point where he would not be published, in a million years, if his celebrity wasn't guaranteeing sales. It's inconsistent in the sense that the vocabulary, and sentence construction, slip between being for a 3 year old and a 15 year old. And giant chunks of the book consist of long, long, long lists that he believes to be very funny. For instance he talks about the awful meals served by the school's dinner lady. A couple of examples - perhaps dandruff soup and bat-vomit pie - would have served to illustrate the level of surrealism, but he insists on devising the entire week's menu , with starters, main courses, desserts and alternatives for each - running to 5 or 6 pages. Similarly, after the 'hilariously' named Peter Bread starts work at the school, Walliams makes the point that some names are just not good if you want to have control of a class - and invents several pages of them. There are several more such exhaustive lists in the book - and indeed all his books that I've read so far - and they're a massive yawn. It's the kind of writing every primary school kid produces, believing completeness to be necessary, and obsessing over details they think are hilarious. Half decent writers know to work in just enough detail to create ambience, whilst also pushing on the story. Walliams produces reasonably imaginative stories - nothing to write home about - but would be better off working with a ghost writer and a better editor.
