The World of David Walliams: 4 Books: Billionaire Boy / Gangsta Granny / Mr Stink / The Boy in the Dress

by David Walliams

Titles In This Collection:
-Billionaire Boy; A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from the author of The Boy in the Dress and Mr Stink.
-Mr Stink; The second original, touching, twisted, and most of all hilarious novel for children by David Walliams - beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake. "Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well..." It all starts when Chloe makes friends with Mr Stink, the local tramp. Yes, he smells a bit. But when it looks like he might be driven out of town, Chloe decides to hide him in the garden shed. Now Chloe''s got to make sure no one finds out her secret. And speaking of secrets, there just might be more to Mr Stink than meets the eye... or the nose.
-The Boy in the Dress; The sparkling debut children's novel from David Walliams, co-creator and co-star of the multi-award-winning Little Britain. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book... Charming, surprising and hilarious - The Boy in the Dress is everything you would expect from the co-creator of Little Britain. David Walliams's beautiful first novel will touch the hearts (and funny bones) of children and adults alike.
-Gangsta Granny; Another hilarious and moving novel from bestselling, critically acclaimed author David Walliams, the natural successor to Roald Dahl. Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma:
1) She was once an international jewel thief.
2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the crown jewels, and now she needs Ben's help

Genres: Childrens

1104 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

David Walliams is an actor and writer best known for his work with Matt Lucas in the multi-award-winning sketch show Little Britain. His debut children's novel, The Boy in the Dress, was published in 2008 to unanimous critical acclaim and he has since developed a reputation as a natural successor to Roald Dahl.

Reviews

[Ella Cooper]

He is a fantastic author and also really funny read his books

[Charlotte]

They's book are very good read good for young people

[Mackena]

You should read all his books there amazing and creative

[Enzo]

love your your books can I have your autograph

[Vanessa obeng]

L

[Jake]

Great read as a kid, couldn’t put the books down!

[Harper]

This review is for billionaire boy. Billionaire boy is a book about Joe Spud who is looking for friends in a rich world. His dad is so caught up in riches that he cant even say i love you to his son. It is a sorrowed story and is very heartfelt. Along with being rich Joe is also overweight which makes making friends very hard for him. I believe the meaning which David Walliams is trying to meet was very well met and it was easy to follow the story. This book was missing it’s final star as the ending was a little messy and i believe it could have been better explained. This book would be very good to read for ages 6-12 because of the story line and like mentioned before it was very easy to follow. the humour (purple bottoms, etc) would easily be enjoyed for that age category.

[Liam Mack]

David Walliams is epic

[gerry]

I love books


By Ella


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☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺

[Golrang]

Wonderful stories for children

[Maison]

Stupid

and offence mean David the author is mean and should be arrested

[2223 S2G4]

The book ‘billionaire boy’ was written by a British author called David Walliams. This book is hilarious yet heartwarming. This book is about a boy whose name was Joe Spud. His dad, Len Spud, was poor but invented a type of toilet paper, which made him an extremely wealthy man. Joe instantly became a billionaire and went to a posh school, lived in a large mansion and had everything he ever needed. Joe has his own formula one race car, a thousand pairs of trainers and anything you can ever think off. The only thing he needed was a friend. His classmates in his school were either princes or dukes and earls. They thought that Joe did not deserve to be a billionaire as his dad made toilet rolls. Joe was really desperate for a friend, so he requested to go to a local school with ordinary kids. He tried to hide his identity at first, but then was exposed very quickly. He managed to make a friend who was bullied by the other kids before his identity was exposed. Joe tried to pay the bullies to stop bullying his new friend, Bob, but it wasn’t what Bob wanted. Bob wanted to stand up on the bullies by himself, so the two had an argument about this and they decided to not be friends anymore. The next day, Joe went to school and realised that there was a new girl in the school, whose name was Laura. She was so pretty that everyone started talking about her. She then became a friend of Joe and told him that she liked him. Joe even ignored Bob because of Laura. After a while, A hint after another, Joe finally found out that Laura was actually an actress that was paid by Joe’s dad to be Joe’s friend. Joe was very disappointed with his dad and finally decided to run away from home. The next morning, Joe decided to turn back after the local newsagent, Raj, convinced him. Before he went home, he went to find Bob. They finally became friends again after Joe promised that he would never use money to deal with everything. Joe then saw on the television that his dad went bankrupt as the company was sued for making peoples bottoms turn purple. At last, Joe and his dad lost everything and Joe’s dad married Bob’s mum, as Joe finally found the true meaning of happiness. This story teaches me that money isn’t everything, you can’t buy happiness with money. Sometimes, you can be happy when you are poor but you won’t always be happy even if you are rich. I would rate this book a 9.9 out of 10.

[15Vailel]

I enjoyed reading these series of books because they were entertaining and very funny. My favourite book out of the set was Gangsta Granny because i enjoyed seeing what challenges she got up to. I think these books were too easy for Year 9 and so therefore will try a more challenging book next time.

[Caroline Downing]

This book is amazing 👍 I litally lobe David wallimas if you don't like this book I don't like you at all I love the show to these my abslotly love gangster granny and the boy in the dress recommend it love y'all 😘😍😇🤔🤓🤓 and it took me 10 hours to read this spoiler alert why did gangster granny steel jewles this inspired me to write my own book 👩🙊👤👩‍❤️‍👩👪

[Hello]

David Williams is my best author ever

[Juliet Teuchler]

Amazing

[Mohit]

Wonderful and delightful

[Dani]

good

[Jernine Bradshaw-Murray]

He is a genius these are amazing books wow I'm speechless
They all have raj in it and he's amazing

[liban abdi mumin]

Decoy.

[Katie]

So funny chips came out my nose👃🏼🍟

[Jeff]

These David Walliams Books, like all the other ones, are really funny and humorous. If you are a person that likes funny and sad books, I recommend this set of books to you!

[Kimberly Doucet]

This book was amazing!

[Lee Drake]

It's a amazing book five-star off

[Jessica Waters]

I thought it was magnificent and I love reading such a hilarious adventure book.🙂

[Milo SHIRE]

decent

[A1rulez]

It is so good

[Charlie]

great

[claire new]

It is amazing

[MRS M R POWELL]

His books are amazing