Since the publication of his ground-breaking first novel, The Boy in the Dress (2008), Walliams has seen unprecedented growth with global sales exceeding 32 million copies, and his books translated into 53 languages. All in all, this was such great fun and I'm very much looking forward to reading more of David Walliams' books. By the end of 2014, Walliams had sold over 4 million books and is described as "the fastest growing children's author in the UK. I was there on World Book Day and at least 50% came as some character form The Midnight Gang (which is so clever because you get to go to school on your pyjamas), so I felt like I needed to read something from him to understand the YOUTH.

They included trying to normalise people's differences, promoting that we all look different and that's a marvelous thing! It’s a very similar writing style to Roald Dahl and the way it uses fonts and sizes is like Lauren Child.There are lots of fascinating animals included as well, both familiar and rarely heard of, and the illustrations are lovely. He is an English comedian, actor, author, television presenter and activist, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the BBC One sketch shows Little Britain, Rock Profile and Come Fly with Me. David and Tony have worked on six bestselling picture books together, and nine of David’s phenomenally successful children’s novels. 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.

This is such a heart-warming story that revolves around a ten-year-old boy named Bob who lives with his poor grandpa. Bob found out some animals at the zoo are unique and not alike and they have no one to visit them but others bully them too so bob made these animals be proud of who they are by accepting what they have. It was a major bonus that it was centered around a zoo too, which of course I loved, but with that setting, Walliams was also able to get the message out of not being cruel to animals (as well as each other), and the power of breaking down bullying was a strong theme. I have just finished reading Blob to my six year old and have given it 5 stars as he scored it 5 and a half!I can't say I'm as keen as they were but then I'm not the target audience and just comparing it to other children's stories that I've read them. I love that the glossary informs you of the facts about the animals in the book, because he did make them do some rather preposterous things in the story!

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Walliams succeeds at promoting self-love among blobfish who is considered to be the ugliest (according to The WHOPPING Book of Fish), terrifying komodo dragon, incredibly slow sloth, proboscis monkey with his outrageous hooter, spiky-backed echidna, pig-nosed frog, umbrellabird with his long dangly wattle that looks like a folded-up umbrella, star-nosed mole who looks like he has worms on the end of his face, hamadryas baboon with her matching red face and bottom, hooded seal who can blow his nose like a ballon and many more through Bob — it's a marvelous thing! And so begins a funny and heartwarming story of a very unusual friendship - and some very strange animals. Bob is now happy as he has many friends including the unique animals and zoo keeper owner and zoo keeper worker as his friends and a lifetime of free zoo tickets for him to use.

This book was written for World Book Day 2017 and is by one of my favourite authors - David Walliams. Blob' is short and sweet and has the same sort of charm that Dahl's children books have, with well carved and ridiculous characters. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. He gets bullied by the Stubbs and most of his classmates make fun of him because he has a big nose - he looks different than the others.I love books with animals anyway (I prefer the company of animals to people) and so it was nice to see some of the more unuusual, not oft-mentioned animals on display here (or at least I haven't read many books that actually mention such things as aye-ayes and pangolins and snapping turtles among others. The story is centered around a zoo and the author is able to transmit the message of not being cruel to animals (as well as to each other). The twist is that it's presented from not only a little boy's perspective but also those of some animals SOME people might consider "ugly.