Adam Wins the Internet

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He co-presented the CBBC show The Dog Ate My Homework and, in September 2020, he became the 40th presenter of Blue Peter. Suddenly he’s making big money off adverts, flying his mum and brother to Ibiza for amazing holidays, and putting on a live show at the London Arena – even the school bully wants to be his friend! Fans of Greg James and Chris Smith, David Baddiel, and Noel Fitzpatrick's Vetman will be spellbound.

All Adam dreams of is being a famous YouTuber like his heroes – but with a broken old phone, no money and absolutely zero online presence, it looks like that dream isn’t coming true anytime soon. I am not usually a huge fan of 'celebrity author' books but this one certainly has a place on my bookshelf. Polly Crosby tells ReadingZone about her novel, This Tale is Forbidden (Scholastic), a fractured fairy tale set in a dystopian world. There are some really comical moments in the book that will make children laugh out loud but also emotional at some points. The days of wishing to become a popstar are over and so many children in the classroom these days dream of becoming the next You Tube sensation.As if by magic, Adam is thrown into a world of FAME, FORTUNE and hotels with really, really, really FANCY TVs! But fame and fortune can’t last forever, and Adam finds himself in a race against time to remember what’s truly important.

Everybody dreams of becoming a superstar YouTube sensation, but for Adam - a penniless, cameraless nobody, with only one friend - it isn't just a dream, it's a complete and utter, NEVER-GOING-TO-HAPPEN-IN-A-MILLION-YEARS, absolute impossibility!When he accepts a mission to reach one million subscribers in one year, it becomes clear that he has bitten off way more than he can chew, and his life becomes one epic fail after another.