In fairness to the boy she does stink of cabbage,” agreed Mum, as she applied some last minute lip-liner. Things change, though, when Ben discovers his boring granny used to be an international jewel thief. Multi-talented David Walliams is the fastest growing children’s author in the UK market, selling an average of 20,000 books each week.

Design a page for the Argos catalogue, which shows the Crown Jewels for sale, similar to the one in Chapter 26. Gangsta Granny’ and ‘Mr Stink’ both have a very contemporary setting (which may swiftly date them and affect their longevity and shelf-life) and both have very domestic settings with stories leading to extraordinary turns of event. You’ll also gain access to a wealth of teaching resources and activities, including downloads, classroom challenges and an exclusive look behind the Walliams scenes. Could you create a new, more exciting timetable with lots of different activities at various times each day?Superior to the awful follow up that came in 2022, it's a bit of an oddity, but for a bit of Christmas family fun it's a decent watch, 6/10. Having previously enjoyed Walliams’ Billionaire Boy, I figured this book would probably be just as good and an amusing way to pass a few hours on the road. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. The characters made me laugh and I loved the relationship between Ben and his granny when they became best friends on their adventure to steal the crown jewels.

He suspected his dad only used it to stop him from diving out of the car when they were on their way to Granny’s house.

Gangsta Granny is a 2011 British children's comedy fiction book, written by David Walliams, [1] illustrated by Tony Ross and published by HarperCollins. I think of all the books of David Walliams, that this was the best of them, it's a sweet, fun read, with some interesting, defiant characters, people that have broken free or the moulds that society places them. Whilst Walliams’ novels are clearly entertaining and accomplished, because they have a style and narratives reminiscent of and in the tradition of Dahl, they were always going to be compared to and suffer by that comparison to Dahls’ classic works. She was a cabbage enthusiast, a Scrabble partner… and an international jewel thief known as The Black Cat.