The Bear Who Went Boo!: A funny illustrated picture book, full of surprises, from number-one bestselling author David Walliams

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David Walliams is fast becoming a global phenomenon in the world of children’s literature – his ability to wow fans is unprecedented with global sales over 14.1 million. As a brand, The World of David Walliams continues to grow: export sales have increased by 77% year on year with growth in every single market and David’s books are published in over 49 languages. This follows on from the success of Grandpa’s Great Escape, Awful Auntie, Demon Dentist, Ratburger and Gangsta Granny. All went straight to Children’s number one on release with Gangsta Granny and Billionaire Boy selling over a million copies to date. Look at the expressions of the animals in each illustration. Can you create pictures of human faces that show different kinds of emotions?

As well as his Children’s fiction, David has also published four number one bestselling picture books, his latest, The Bear Who went Boo! was published in November 2015 and has had total sales of over 85,000 to date. The Queen’s Orang-utan, David’s third picture book was written exclusively for Comic Relief with David giving all of his proceeds from the book to the charity. David Walliams' terrific story is once again perfectly complimented by Tony Ross' amazing illustrations. Making The Bear Went Boo! both fun to read and fun to look at. One of our Books of the Year 2015 As all little children know, there’s great fun to be had in jumping out and shouting ‘Boo!’. The little polar bear star of David Walliams’s new picture book likes nothing more than to surprise his neighbours in this way, though his mother keeps warning him that he wouldn’t like it if someone did it to him. As the animals prepare for the arrival of a documentary film crew, the little cub has a field day, and even catches out the distinguished wildlife expert mid-presentation to camera. It’s lots of fun and young readers will love shouting ‘Boo!’ along with the little bear. The inimitable Tony Ross makes the cub adorable and naughty at the same time and his nude sunbathing walrus is sublime. ~ Andrea Reece David has proved himself as a dramatic actor in BBC2's 'Capturing Mary' with Dame Maggie Smith, in BBC1's Agatha Christie series 'Partners In Crime', as Frankie Howerd in the biopic ‘Rather You Than Me’ for BBC4, and on the stage in Harold Pinter’s 'No Man’s Land' starring alongside Sir Michael Gambon. He received the Comedy Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his performance as Bottom in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ directed by Michael Grandage.From Number One bestselling picture book duo, David Walliams and Tony Ross, comes this bear-illiantly funny adventure for children of 3 and up. His most recent fiction title, The World’s Worst Children, published on 19th May 2016 sold over 340,000 copies in the UK alone. It went straight to No. 1 on release where it stayed for 4 weeks and also concurred Children’s Books charts, where it stayed at No.1 for 7 weeks. Internationally sales continue to thrive, The World’s Worst Children also went straight to No. 1 in the Australian children’s chart and remained there for three consecutive weeks and reached the No. 1 in the overall book chart in New Zealand. I absolutely love David Walliams's books. In a few more years they will become classics.” – Sue Townsend, author of Adrian Mole Think of words and phrases to describe a habitat in the Arctic. How is it similar to other habitats around the world? The author writes that the polar bear is ‘very cheeky’. Can you think of other words and phrases to describe him?

Little Britain’, which he co-created with Matt Lucas, started on Radio 4 and soon progressed to BBC1. The show has won numerous international awards including three BAFTAs, and now plays in over 100 countries. ‘Little Britain Live’ performed to a million people in the UK, Ireland and Australia. David and Matt followed ‘Little Britain’ with the hugely popular spoof airport documentary series 'Come Fly With Me'. As well as being a No.1 best-selling Children’s author, David Walliams is one of Britain's most popular writers and comic actors. Write a persuasive letter to the little bear to encourage him to stop surprising the other animals. urn:oclc:record:1391176447 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bearwhowentboo0000wall Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2s9c78ptgs Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780008215880 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.19 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001290 Openlibrary_editionImagine that the explorer did create a television show after all. Can you write the script and use a green screen to record it? At one point in the story, the bear surprises a ‘platoon of puffins’. Can you find out the correct collective nouns for different animals? The little bear creeps up on others ‘slowly and silently’. Can you think of other adverbs to use in this sentence? How might they change the meaning? As an adult I genuinely enjoyed reading this book, so I can only imagine how much joy it will bring to young readers and their parents. If you have a child in your life or are looking for the perfect book for a young reader, The Bear Who Went Boo! by David Walliams, illustrated by Tony Ross is the book for you.