Megamonster: the mega laugh-out-loud children’s book by multi-million bestselling author David Walliams

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I prefer his books that have a more tangled story such as The ice monster, The Beast of Buckingham Palace, even Code Name Bananas but maybe because I like the history element being thrown into them. This magical story of bravery will convince little girls that courage does not differentiate gender. Larker is a girl who got sent to Cruel School when a teacher picked on her and wrongly accused her of violating school rules. She kept asking sensible questions like why a girl climbing up a drainpipe was suddenly on the ground, how a child who hadn’t eaten in days could stay up night after night without getting tired, or why she was suddenly best friends with a boy she met briefly at one breakfast?

Larker is being sent to a new school and not just any school, she is going to attend The Cruel School, situated on a volcanic island amidst sharks there is no way off for Larker or any of the pupils. Added to all this, David’s books have achieved unprecedented critical acclaim: Awful Auntie, Ratburger and Demon Dentist won the National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year and in France David was awarded the popular Tamtam for Mr Stink and the prestigious Le Prix Du Livre De La Jeunesse for Ratburger, so it comes as no surprise that countless broadsheet reviewers have compared David to his all-time hero, Roald Dahl.The way in which the characters learn as they go through strange yet entertaining situations is thrilling for readers. Run by the science teacher Doctor Doktur with the aid of her weird spectacles and the Monsterification machine. The first part of the book blew me away, especially the Gabber language classes, but after the introduction of a certain machine, everything started to go awry.

Okay, I'm going to be kind with this one, I'm an adult reading a book intended for young kids and the one thing which irritated me is probably entertaining for children. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. Megamonster is an action-packed page-turning adventure, set on an island in the middle of shark-infested waters – where the Cruel School stands on top of a dormant volcano. But only David can make a plot so horrific and eerie into a kids book and make it sound cute and adorable.Mr Stink, Gangsta Granny, The Boy in the Dress and Billionaire Boy have all been adapted into TV comedy dramas. As well as his Children’s fiction, David has also published four number one bestselling picture books, his latest, The Bear Who went Boo!

A lot of children will probably still get enjoyment out of this, but it isn’t David Walliams at his best.As a brand, The World of David Walliams continues to grow: export sales have increased by 77% year on year with growth in every single market and David’s books are published in over 49 languages. We kept talking about how great it would be if there was a giant monster made up of all different monsters.

Here, you meet the weirdest characters caught in bizarre situations which are curiously entertaining. The lessons are appalling, the school dinners are revolting and the teachers are terrifying - especially the mysterious Science teacher Doctor Doktur.

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