In 2008 David’s first children’s book The Boy in the Dress was published, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Sometimes, though, people felt safer sleeping on the platforms of London’s underground (Tube) train stations – it’s thought there were about 180,000 ‘Tubites’ in the capital each night. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. His books have now been translated into 40+ languages, and also include picture books illustrated by Tony Ross. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. David Walliams books are seriously the best and super entertaining for a young reader…well any age really. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Yoto says: A whizz-bang adventure about the extraordinary friendship between a little boy and a huge gorilla that just might save the day! But while hiding out at the seaside they uncover a top-secret Nazi plot… Join David Walliams on this action-packed, laugh-out-loud adventure for all the family!If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. The David Williams books are exciting and engaging and never fails to impress with the brilliant content and illustrations. Eleven-year-old Eric lives in London during World War II, where the Blitz means that bombs fall on the city all the time. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. David Walliams said, "This book is an epic comedy adventure set in World War II with an animal at the centre of the story.

Thoughtful hug in a box care packages and gifts for every occasion, hand packed, beautifully gift wrapped and delivered directly to their door. He has gone on to take the children’s literary world by storm, dominating sales charts and twice winning the National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year.A must-have gift for David Walliams’s readers, Code Name Bananas is a rip-roaring, action packed, page-turning adventure to capture the imaginations of children across the globe. Since the publication of his ground-breaking first novel, The Boy in the Dress (2008), Walliams has seen unprecedented growth with global sales exceeding 45 million copies, and his books translated into 55 languages. Together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, Eric and the gorilla embark on an epic adventure across London and to the seaside – but they haven’t escaped just yet.

All stuff themselves with up to 30kg of leaves, stems and fruit each day, but some also eat insects, snails and tree bark! He took up swimming in his youth because he was overweight, and has subsequently completed long distance swims of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar and the River Thames, raising millions of pounds for charity!

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Eeven-year-old Eric loves nothing more than spending his days at London Zoo, especially with his very favourite animal, Gertrude the gorilla. Shy, gentle, peaceful animals, they live in the forests of central, sub-Saharan Africa, including Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Initially I had bought a few of the David Walliams books for my son as was recommended in the school read list.