Stella's parents died in a car crash but Stella doesn't know how because her dad was a steady driver.

The illustrations are still fantastic and I still really like them, and they are still another big reason why I still read these books. Her brother (Stella's dad) was just way to generous, he should have said no from the start, instead of letting it go on like this. While we have enjoyed other David Walliams books such as Gangsta Granny, Mr Stink and The Midnight Gang we found that Awful Auntie along with Demon Dentist are our favourites. The story itself, it felt like it could have easily be done with 100 or so pages less, now it felt unnecessary and overkill.Gangsta Granny went straight to number 1 in the children’s book charts and globally his books have been translated into no fewer than 25 languages. L-am apreciat mai ales pe majordomul cel țăcănit despre care un alt personaj spune: "Omul ăsta e un imbecil! At least I was inspired to create my own list of reasons not to read this book: tedious, unfunny, predictable. I do feel terribly sorry for the author, who clearly suffers from Trying-Too-Hard-To-Be-Like-Roald-Dahl Syndrome.

It was just creepy and disturbing, she was a horrendous character, not only in attitude but just generally as well. I had hoped for something else, but instead even the ending had to be silly and weird like the rest of the book.The mommy in me wants to give it 5 stars for bringing so much joy to my little one, but the adult in me is creeped out at what passes in the name of children's fiction nowadays.

K. Rowling has done, this generation are enjoying their books and hopefully spring-boarding to other authors and titles that will fire their imaginations. None of it makes any sense, and not in a surrealist amusing way, just in a "nobody bothered to make this hold water" way. Dette gjør at sidetallet blir høyere men samtidig så flyger boka av sted, og jeg føler at illustrasjonene gjør historien bedre.A bright and brave female heroine in Stella, young heiress of a large country house, orphaned but determined not to let her evil aunt Alberta steal her house from her. The mystery element (though it does seem out of place in a children's book) is good - wills, deeds, blackened greenhouses, shifty policemen, secret chimney passages.