SPACEBOY: The epic and funny new children’s book from multi-million bestselling author David Walliams

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In 2008 David’s first children’s book The Boy in the Dress was published, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Thrown into a bouncing, flying, racing, falling, but fabulously fun adventure, Ruth does everything she can to keep her first real friend (besides Yuri) safe. The night sky is the only pleasure Ruth gets since she was left as an orphan on her evil aunt's steps.

As always, Walliams’ text, in combination with illustrations by Adam Stower, is both heartwarming and hilarious, perfect reading material for readers of eight years and older. The lonely Ruth sees an UFO flash across the sky through her telescope and accompanied by her dog creeps out of her creaky attic to see what it is – this despite her ogre aunt who belongs to the genre of Cinderella’s Ugly Sisters and all the wicked stepmothers across fairy tale genres.I liked Yuri and Ruth and feel like this book has potential for sequels of adventures and even prequels of Spaceboy and Ruth's lives prior to them meeting. After reluctantly taking in her orphaned relative Ruth, Aunt Dorothy put her straight to work on the farm. Accompanied by doodles and aiding visuals this book will help you visualise all of its gritty details and add more clarity to the narrative.

UFOs, alien invasions, creatures from other planets - if it came from outer space then Ruth wants to know all about it.

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. HIding Spaceboy from her aunt is one thing but when the government gets involved there plenty of shenanigans as Ruth and Spaceboy try to escape. Spaceboy falls trying to catch him and as his helmet rolls on the floor, Ruth realises he is not an alien but a normal boy. Aunt Dorothy makes Ruth work from dawn till dusk on her failing Ostrich farm, and also makes her share the minimal food she does get with her only friend - her dog Yuri.

They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. One night, using the telescope she's scavenged to watch the stars, Ruth is astounded to see an ACTUAL UFO crashing near the farm. I had to look up other books by David Wallace, and next on our bookshelves is GANGSTA GRANNY and CODE NAME BANANAS. 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.It introduces us to a daredevil girl who is a science nerd and not afraid to stand up for herself or her friends. Ruth sees a spacecraft crashing down to the ground not far from her home so she sneaks out to investigate, where she meets, her soon to be new Friend, Spaceboy.