The World of David Walliams: 7 Book Collection
SEVEN hilarious and moving novels from bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams, PLUS some seriously silly ebook-exclusive material, including an author Q&A, character profiles, awesome activities and much more!AWFUL AUNTIE:Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret – and slightly spooky – weapon up her sleeve…DEMON DENTIST:Strange things were happening in the dead of night. When children put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, they would wake to find something creepy in its place. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it?RATBURGER:Can Zoe keep her beloved pet rat safe from the clutches of the dastardly Burt of Burt’s Burgers?GANGSTA GRANNY:Ben’s grandma is 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 her.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…BILLIONAIRE BOY:Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact.He has absolutely everything he could possibly want.But there’s just one thing he really needs: a friend…MR STINK:Mr Stink stank. He also stunk.And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well…But there’s more to this vagrant than meets the nose!THE BOY IN THE DRESS:Dennis was different.Why was he different, you ask?Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book…
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The World Of David Walliams: 7 Book Collection
David Walliams
This e-book collection first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2016
The Boy in the Dress text © David Walliams 2008, illustrations © Quentin Blake 2008
Mr Stink text © David Walliams 2009, illustrations © Quentin Blake 2009
Billionaire Boy text © David Walliams 2010, illustrations © Tony Ross 2010
Gangsta Granny text © David Walliams 2011, illustrations © Tony Ross 2011
Ratburger text © David Walliams, illustrations © Tony Ross
Demon Dentist text © David Walliams 2013, illustrations © Tony Ross 2013
Awful Auntie text © David Walliams 2014, illustrations © Tony Ross 2014
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The Boy in the Dress ISBN: 9780007302086 Mr Stink ISBN: 9780007343829 Billionaire Boy ISBN: 9780007371433 Gangsta Granny ISBN: 9780007371457 Ratburger ISBN: 9780007453559 Demon Dentist ISBN: 9780007453597 Awful Auntie ISBN: 9780007453634
Source ISBN: 9780008182670
Ebook Edition © 2016 ISBN: 9780008235765
Version: 2016-11-16
Contents
About the Publisher
For Eddie,What joy you have given us all.
Contents
Chapter 3 - Under the Mattress
Chapter 4 - Wanting to Disappear
Chapter 6 - Forever and a Moment
Chapter 7 - Watching the Curtain Edges Grow Light
Chapter 8 - Lying on the Carpet with Lisa
Chapter 10 - Pickled Onion Monster Munch
Chapter 11 - “These high heels are killing me”
Chapter 14 - Silence like Snow
Chapter 15 - There Was Nothing More to Say
Chapter 16 - With or Without the Dress
Chapter 18 - A Thousand Smiles
Dennis was different.
When he looked in the mirror he saw an ordinary twelve-year-old boy. But he felt different–his thoughts were full of colour and poetry, though his life could be very boring.
The story I am going to tell you begins here, in Dennis’s ordinary house on an ordinary street in an ordinary town. His house was nearly exactly the same as all the others in the street. One house had double glazing, another did not. One had a gravel drive, another had crazy paving. One had a Vauxhall Cavalier in the drive, another a Vauxhall Astra. Tiny differences that only really pointed out the sameness of everything.
It was all so ordinary, something extraordinary just had to happen.
Dennis lived with his dad–who did have a name, but Dennis just called him Dad, so I will too–and his older brother John, who was fourteen. Dennis found it frustrating that his brother would always be two years older than him, and bigger, and stronger.
Dennis’s mum had left home a couple of years ago. Before that, Dennis used to creep out of his room and sit at the top of the stairs and listen to his mum and dad shout at each other until one day the shouting stopped.
She was gone.
Dad banned John and Dennis from ever mentioning Mum again. And soon after she left, he went around the house and took down all the photographs of her and burnt them in a big bonfire.
But Dennis managed to save one.
One solitary photograph escaped the flames, dancing up into the air from the heat of the fire, before floating through the smoke and onto the hedge.
As dusk fell, Dennis snuck out and retrieved the photo. It was charred and blackened around the edges and at first his heart sank, but when he turned it to the light he saw that the image was as bright and clear as ever.
It showed a joyful scene: a younger John and Dennis with Mum at the beach, Mum wearing a lovely yellow dress with flowers on it. Dennis loved that dress; it was full of colour and life, and soft to the touch. When Mum put it on it meant that summer had arrived.
It had been warm outside after she had left, but it hadn’t really been summer in their house again.
In the picture Dennis and his brother were in swimming trunks holding ice-cream cones, vanilla ice-cream smeared around their smiling mouths. Dennis kept the photo in his pocket and looked at it secretly every day. His mum looked so achingly beautiful in it, even though her smile was uncertain. Dennis stared at it for hours on end, trying to imagine what she had been thinking when it was taken.
