Best-known for his novels for children including Mr Stink, Billionaire Boy and Awful Auntie, Walliams has also written a number of picture books including The Slightly Annoying Elephant, working with two of Britain’s most talented illustrators, Quentin Blake and Tony Ross.

They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.I was sceptical at first that the child character was such a brat and the parents were the nice ones (as Roald Dahl normally has nice children as the main character) but my kids loved it.

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! 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. His books have now been translated into 40+ languages, and also include picture books illustrated by Tony Ross. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

In 2008 David’s first children’s book The Boy in the Dress was published, illustrated by Quentin Blake.