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Название: The World of David Walliams 5 Book Collection

Автор: David Walliams

Издательство: HarperCollins

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isbn: 9780007554096

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      The World of Walliams 5 Book Collection

      David Walliams

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       The Boy in the Dress

       Mr Stink

       Billionaire Boy

       Gangsta Granny

       Ratburger

       Copyright

      About the Publisher

       For Eddie, What joy you have given us all.

      Contents

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Chapter 1 - No Hugging

       Chapter 2 - Fat Dad

       Chapter 3 - Under the Mattress

       Chapter 4 - Wanting to Disappear

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       1 No Hugging

      Dennis was different.

      When he looked in the mirror he saw an ordinary twelve-year-old boy. But he felt different–his thoughts were full of colour and poetry, though his life could be very boring.

      The story I am going to tell you begins here, in Dennis’s ordinary house on an ordinary street in an ordinary town. His house was nearly exactly the same as all the others in the street. One house had double glazing, another did not. One had a gravel drive, another had crazy paving. One had a Vauxhall Cavalier in the drive, another a Vauxhall Astra. Tiny differences that only really pointed out the sameness of everything.

      It was all so ordinary, something extraordinary just had to happen.

      Dennis lived with his dad–who did have a name, but Dennis just called him Dad, so I will too–and his older brother John, who was fourteen. Dennis found it frustrating that his brother would always be two years older than him, and bigger, and stronger.

      Dennis’s mum had left home a couple of years ago. Before that, Dennis used to creep out of his room and sit at the top of the stairs and listen to his mum and dad shout at each other until one day the shouting stopped.

      She was gone.

      Dad banned John and Dennis from ever mentioning Mum again. And soon after she left, he went around СКАЧАТЬ