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kobvindex_ZLB16313304
ISBN:
9780007453597
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9780007453597
Content:
" The new jaw-achingly funny novel from David Walliams, the Number One bestselling author! Make your appointment if you dare... Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find... a dead slug,a live spider,hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it...? Read this book and find out! "
Content:
Rezension(1): "David Walliams continues to take the children's literary world by storm. His eighth novel, Grandpa's Great Escape, was an immediate number one, and was the biggest-selling children's book of 2015. David's books have been translated into 50 languages and sold over 14 million copies worldwide. They have achieved unprecedented critical acclaim – and Ratburger, Demon Dentist and Awful Auntie have all won the National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.dogobooks.com/demon-dentist/book-review/0007453566 target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/dogobooks_logo.jpg alt=DOGO Books border=0 /〉〈/a〉:rk - I had read all of the other David williams books except rat burger. It is quite scary I wouldn', recomand to read it at night. The witch', lair is made out of teeth so gross!" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 7, 2015 A bestselling author for children in the U.K., comedian Walliams ( Mr. Stink ) promises “a horror story. With quite a lot of made-up words” in the preface to this novel, and what follows is indeed a ghastly affair. Alfie Griffith, 12, has it rough: dead mother, dying father, and an early-life experience with the dentist so grisly that he never returned, leaving him with a mouthful of rotting teeth. When a new dentist arrives, Alfie’s social worker insists he visit, even though Miss Root is clearly evil. Her arrival coincides with a disturbing crime spree: teeth left under pillows are replaced not with shillings but with horrifying calling cards: a human eyeball, a dead cockroach, a bat wing (still flapping). The grotesqueries evoke Dahl, but the comparison ends there. The jokes are stale (especially the ones at the expense of the overweight social worker), the adults all buffoons, and the plot a couple hundred pages longer than necessary. Ross’s humorous illustrations recall Quentin Blake’s, but aren’t enough to buoy the sagging adventure or an ending so sugar-coated it would keep Miss Root in business for years. Ages 8–12."
Language:
English
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