Grandpa’s Great Escape. David Walliams
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Название: Grandpa’s Great Escape
Автор: David Walliams
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Книги для детей: прочее
isbn: 9780008140359
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to Sam & Phoebe, who are nearly always good.
With love, David x
HarperCollins Children’s Books presents
| Written by | DAVID WALLIAMS |
| Illustrator | TONY ROSS |
| Editor | RUTH ALLTIMES |
| Desk Editor | GEORGIA MONROE |
| Text Designer | ELORINE GRANT |
| Cover Designer | KATE CLARKE |
| Sound | TANYA BRENNAND-ROPER |
| Marketing | ALISON RUANE AND NICOLA WAY |
| Promotion | GERALDINE STROUD AND SAM WHITE |
| Director | RACHEL DENWOOD |
| Mr Walliams’ literary agent | PAUL STEVENS AT INDEPENDENT |
| Executive Producer | CHARLIE REDMAYNE |
| Produced by | ANN-JANINE MURTAGH |
Special thanks to Charlotte Sluter and Laura Clouting at the Imperial War Museum & Tim Granshaw, Matt Jones, Andy Annabel and Gerry Jones at Goodwood Aerodrome & John Nichol, RAF Consultant.
This is the tale of a boy called Jack and his grandfather.
Once upon a time Grandpa was a Royal Air Force pilot.
During World War II he flew a Spitfire fighter plane.
Our story is set in 1983. This was a time before the internet and mobile telephones and computer games that could be played for weeks on end. In 1983 Grandpa was already an old man but his grandson Jack was just twelve years old.
This is Jack’s mum and dad. Mum, Barbara, works at the cheese counter in the local supermarket. Dad, Barry, is an accountant.
Raj is the local newsagent.
Miss Verity is the history teacher at Jack’s school.
Detectives Beef and Bone are a crime-fighting duo.
This is the town’s vicar, Reverend Hogg.
This security guard works at the Imperial War Museum in London.
Miss Swine is the matron of the local old folk’s home, Twilight Towers.
Some of the elderly residents there include Mrs Trifle, the Major and the Rear Admiral.
These are some of the nurses who work at Twilight Towers – Nurse Rose, Nurse Daisy and Nurse Blossom.
This is Twilight Towers.
This is a map of the town.
Prologue
O ne day Grandpa began to forget things. It was little things at first. The old man would make himself a cup of tea and forget to drink it. Before long he would have lined up a dozen cups of cold tea on his kitchen table. Or he would run a bath and forget to turn off the taps, flooding his neighbour’s flat downstairs. Or he would leave the house with the express purpose of buying a stamp, but return home with seventeen boxes of cornflakes. Grandpa didn’t even like cornflakes.
Over time, Grandpa started to forget bigger things. What year it was. Whether his long-deceased wife Peggy was alive or not. One day he even stopped recognising his own son.
Most startling of all was that Grandpa completely forgot he was an old age pensioner. The old man had always told his little grandson Jack stories of his adventures in the Royal Air Force all those years ago in World War II. Now these stories became more and more real СКАЧАТЬ