Blob

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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! It was the first book of David Walliams that I read, but it was so atrocious that I cannot read another of his. 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. 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.

As I paid a fair bit more than that, it was disappointing to see the cover has a massive crease down the middle of it and the condition is not as good as I would have expected. David and Tony also collaborated on the 2017 World Book Day title, BLOB, and on the blockbuster collections, The World’s Worst Children 1, 2 and 3. Stink, Rattourger, Demon Dentist, The World's Worst Children, The World's Worst Children 2, The World's Worst Children 3, Awful Auntie, and Bad Dad.

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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. And so begins a funny and heartwarming story of a very unusual friendship - and some very strange animals. Roald Dahl is amazing, legend, one of a kind but David's books are genuinely good, kind, honest and most importantly wise. 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!

There are lots of fascinating animals included as well, both familiar and rarely heard of, and the illustrations are lovely. 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). 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.I did an internship in a school in England (before Corona sent me back to Germany) and all the kids were reading David Walliams. It’s a very similar writing style to Roald Dahl and the way it uses fonts and sizes is like Lauren Child. A blob fish - maybe it has a tad bit of a good message, about how you look not mattering- but it is awful. 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. 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!

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.

They included trying to normalise people's differences, promoting that we all look different and that's a marvelous thing!

All the characters and animals in this story were great Arons favourite was blob my favourite was Mr Basil Basildon. Blob' is short and sweet and has the same sort of charm that Dahl's children books have, with well carved and ridiculous characters. 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. Willybums knows how to make this 24-year-old kid snort, chuckle and giggle with his take on the zoo and school bullies. Bob is a good character who just loves animals and it's the animals that help him to get revenge on said bullies.

It isn't a book, a story, it's a short story, it seems like people are making movies out of David's books just because he is famous, not for any(or lack of) plot. The zookeeper and Winston helps bob by pulling a prank/revenge scheme on the bullies who bully Bob which makes them leave him alone.