HarperCollins Demon Dentist, Children's, CD-Audio, David Walliams, Read by David Walliams, Nitin Ganatra and Jocelyn Jee Esien
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Product ID: 9780007527243
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Dimensions: 139x142mm
Keywords: funny, scary, wimpy kid, silly, read aloud, adventure, at home,activities,things to do, parents, hilarious, roald dahl, action, gross, fun
ISBN: 9780007527243
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Author: Monika
Rating: 5
Review: Great book, hilarious story
Author: J. Ang
Rating: 4
Review: A darkly humorous book - meant for children but can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. It follows in the vein of Roald Dahl stories, with delightfully quirky illustrations (in the Kindle version, at least), to accompany the at-times alarming story of 12-year old Alfie. Alfie's diminished circumstances are rather subtly presented. Alfie lives in a dilapidated bungalow with an invalid father, who fell ill when working in a coal mine, while his mother had passed on years ago. He wears uniforms with holes and he is not exactly Mr Popular in school, and understandably, he has a morbid fear of dentists arising from a traumatic experience when he was six.Having a muddle-headed dentist painfully (and dramatically, with the assistance of all and sundry) extract the wrong tooth, he had hidden all the reminders from the dentist up in the cupboard behind the biscuit tin where his wheelechar-bound father cannot reach. Consequently, he had not been to a dentist for years - and it shows. This last detail is the basis of the story and it may seem like an inconsequential nugget, but the brilliance of Williams's storycraft is how he manages to create a comedic situation from the rather dire circumstances of Alfie's life by focusing on this one area. Enter Miss Root, the demon dentist, a ghastly-looking dame of undeterminable age (though decidedly ancient), with a vampiric (white, to break the stereotype) cat, who is on a sinister mission involving lots of children's teeth and thwarted tooth-fairy gifts, which are replaced by dad slugs, live spiders, and even old men's toe nails. It is up to Alfie and fellow outcast, the tiny girl with straggly hair and sardonic wit, Gabz, to save the day. At the heart of it, the story is a timely reminder about the journey out of childhood and the way one loses a sense of wonderment as a price for growing up, as the villainess tells Alfie: "Well, children around your age... twelve and a half, nearly thirteen... you think you know it all. You suppose you're too grown up for stories and myths and legends. you don't want to believe in them anymore. That's why children like you are the easiest to catch...". Shudder. The book is littered with a colourful cast of characters, from Winnie the large, meddlesome social worker who has a penchant for loud clothing and romps around in a too-small moped; Raj, the neighbourhood newsagent with a timid heart of gold, and the totally guileless policeman, PC Plank. It is in the company of frustratingly ineffective adults and truly perilous situations that Alfie shines in this delightful yet disturbing book.
