Grandpa’s Great Escape

Grandpa’s Great Escape
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The hotly-anticipated next novel from NUMBER ONE bestselling author, David WalliamsJack’s Grandpa…*wears his slippers to the supermarket*serves up Spam à la Custard for dinner*and often doesn’t remember Jack’s nameBut he can still take to the skies in a speeding Spitfire and save the day…An exquisite portrait of the bond between a small boy and his beloved Grandpa – this book takes readers on an incredible journey with Spitfires over London and Great Escapes through the city in a high octane adventure full of comedy and heart.Illustrated by the award-winning Tony Ross.

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GRANDPA’S GREAT ESCAPE. Text © David Walliams 2015. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2015

HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,

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Illustrations © Tony Ross 2015

Cover lettering of author’s name © Quentin Blake 2015

HB ISBN 978-0-00-749401-9

TPB ISBN 978-0-00-813519-5

Ebook Edition © September 2015 ISBN 9780008140359

Version: 2017-06-22

David Walliams and Tony Ross assert the moral right to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work.

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

Part I: Reach for the Sky

1 Spam à la Custard

2 Slippers

3 A Waft of Cheese

10  4 Second-hand Trike

11  5 Loon in the Moon

12  6 A Runaway Bulldozer

13  7 Disneyland for Old People

14  8 Spit it Out!

15  9 Coloured Chalks

16  10 Facts Facts Facts

17  11 A Legend

18  12 Bunking Off

19  13 The Willies

20  14 Cartwheels of Joy

21  15 Snoring Like an Elephant

22  16 Empty Bunk

23  17 Nothing

24  18 Jiggery-Pokery

25  19 Bird of Prey

26  20 Breaking the Rules

27  21 Jungle Roar

28  22 Forty Winks

29  23 Nuts and Berries

30  24 A Wardrobe in a Suit

31  25 Deeper Doo-Doo

32  26 Turning the Tables

33  27 Behind Enemy Lines

34  28 A Costly Call

35  29 A Shadowy Figure

36  Part II: A Matter of Life and Death

37  30 Twilight Towers

38  31 The World’s Ugliest Nurses

39  32 Weeping Willow

40  33 Slither Like a Snake

41  34 Hidden in a Moustache

42  35 Still More Socks

43  36 With a Spoon?!

44  37 Something Dark, Something Creepy

45  38 Dummies

46  39 Bonkers

47  40 A Rope of Knickers

48  41 Jolly Good Show

49  42 Bruises on the Bottom

50  43 Down the Hatch

51  44 All Sorts

52  45 Wigs and Make-up

53  46 Burned Moustache

54  47 Shake & Go

55  48 Inferno!

56  49 Hot as Hell

57  50 Coffboggan

58  51 Swoon

59  52 Lost Marbles

60  Part III: One of Our Aircraft is Missing

61  53 Glory Days

62  54 Racing the Sun

63  55 Driving a Tank

64  56 Fill Her Up!

65  57 ZOOM!

66  58 Never Surrender

67  59 Pure Poetry

68  60 Speeding Through Fire

69  61 Down to Earth

70  Part IV: The Way to the Stars

71  62 Salute to a Hero

72  63 Broken Noses

73  64 Pants on Fire!

74  65 An Army of Oldies

75  66 Goodbye

76  Epilogue

77  Glossary

78  More from the World of David Walliams

79  Also by David Walliams

80  About the Publisher

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to Sam & Phoebe, who are nearly always good.

With love, David x


HarperCollins Children’s Books presents


Written by DAVID WALLIAMS
Illustrator TONY ROSS
Editor RUTH ALLTIMES
Desk Editor GEORGIA MONROE
Text Designer ELORINE GRANT
Cover Designer KATE CLARKE


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