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Billionaire Boy
By (Author) David Walliams
Illustrated by Tony Ross
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
4th August 2011
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Money
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Life skills and choices
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Apes, monkeys and lemurs
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
823.92
Paperback
288
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
260g
A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and one of the fastest growing childrens author across the globe.
Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact.
You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land.
Yes, Joe has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But theres just one thing he really needs: a friend
"A triumphant mix of wit and warmth" Telegraph Books of the Year
"Witty, warm and enjoyable" Daily Express
David Williams third book for children is a neat combination of hilarity and morality in the best spirit of the master story-teller of the genre, Roald Dahl Julia Eccleshare
David Walliams is a literary phenomenon whose books have sold more than fifty-four million copies worldwide and have been translated into fifty-five languages. Born in London, Tony Ross went to art school in Liverpool. His cartoons have appeared in famous publications the world over. His first book, HUGO AND THE WICKED WINTER, was published in 1972. Tony has since written over 100 books and illustrated over 2000! His creations Towser and The Little Princess have been turned into TV series.