The World’s Worst Children

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We get to meet a boy who dribbles and sleeps the day away, another who cultivates his own nits to become a super-villain, one girl who can't stop moving, another who never throws anything away or cleans her room. And of course, a boy who collects his bogeys. One of my favourites I think, by the author. No plot to speak of, just a series of enjoyable silly stories that will have children laughing with pleasure. In May, Ma met with publisher HarperCollins, along with Anna Chan from the Asian Leadership Collective, to discuss how “problematic” the story was. “[We] shared our personal experiences of some of the hardships we had growing up and being teased for being a BBC (British-born Chinese). Stories like Brian Wong have a role to play in normalising jokes on minorities from a young age and we want this to be removed,” she said at the time. “We were open and honest with HarperCollins. We want fairer representation to the wider ESEA community and we feel books that educate kids on diversity should be done fairly, rather than joking about harmful stereotypes.”

Well it’s another World’s Worst books by David Walliams and this time he’s turned the microscope on you Teachers – you all thought you had it safe didn’t you, got away with ruining children’s lives, forever tormenting them, giving them homework, having coffee breath and making them do exercise in the rain or in their pants. Well Walliams explores the worst of the worst with The World’s Worst Teachers – and in doing so makes many parents take a trip down memory lane, as when they read, they can’t help but mention the teachers they had – causing interesting after reading discussions. I am a massive fan of David Walliams’ books so I had high hopes for this book, and thankfully it not only lived up to my expectations it well and truly surpassed them. Pinch your nose for Peter Pong, the man with the stinkiest feet in the world… jump out of the way of Harriet Hurry, the fastest mum on two wheels… watch out for Monty Monopolize, the dad who takes all his kids’ toys… and oh no, it’s Supermum! Brandishing a toilet brush, a mop and a very bad homemade outfit…’ Now HarperCollins is set to remove the story from the next edition of The World’s Worst Children, which is out in March. “In consultation with our author and illustrator we can confirm that a new story will be written to replace ‘Brian Wong’ in future editions of The World’s Worst Children,” HarperCollins said in a statement. “The update will be scheduled at the next reprint as part of an ongoing commitment to regularly reviewing content.”This may and should probably be the last of this series – although each story is different and told with Walliams usual brilliance, this one did seem a little repetitive with many teachers ending up, floating away, blown away, washed away etc. It’s great, funny as a hedgehog in your pants and my daughter laughed her head off – but I feel he’s gone as far as he can with the series and this, if it is the last of the series, is a very fitting bookend to that series of books! I don't blame this man queue are really irritating and my feet literally give up on me but I can probably go by one WITHOUT having my STANDING ON THE END, MY GLASSES STEAMING UP, MY NOSTRILS FLARING UP?, AND MY EARS FLAPPING?! I am not kidding around when I say that he went COO COO CRAZY when he sees queues. Again.... I would have given this story more if it wouldn't have been for the aunt and her teeth! WHO BITES THERE NEPHEW?! And Terry did take it too far from doing all the chaos he caused. The stories are a similar structure to WWC, often with moral lessons and comeuppances to those who need them, and lots of chances for readers to loathe and laugh at some over-the-top stereotypes and situations. Walliams great theatrical and comical mind goes into overdrive with this collection of ten short stories, many being outlandishly devilish and enjoyable to no end, but I couldn’t help but see many of the stories ending in the same way – with the teacher disappearing out of the school in a variety of ways, maybe this is because all children want rid of their teacher, but for me I found it quite predictable and after a couple it becomes a little (dare I say it) boring. My daughter who is nine also commented on this fact, but still bent over double whilst we read them, and I guess she is more his demographic, rather than a thirty-seven year old who doesn’t want to grow up! The description was pretty accurate to the character and the story line he plays. The story is basically about a father who is a strongman and thinks from his muscle and early uses his brain.... he names his daughter Brian which he didn't realise is a boys name and whenever he is asked any question he just says "My Brain Hurts!" This is a great story the punch line was great and I never expected him to lift the school! The thing I really liked was his colleagues helped him when it was needed that was really kind. But when he was as thin as a pancake and he went to the hospital the story ended there.... I was kinda disappointed cause I wanted to know what will happen next. They ended the story by saying that he will from now on always use his brain over his muscles. Thats the only reason I rated it a 4/5 Stars

Read by a star cast on Audible, it's entertaining to listen to, full of energy, though you do miss some of the visual humour and Tony Ross illustrations by accessing it in this format. For children older, reading for themselves, these are visually very appealing stories, with plenty of text-play, 'rude' words and pictures, and of course Raj throughout, shaking his head at the terrible doings of the young rascals. THIS IS MY FAVOURITE OUT OF ALL! I LOVE THE ENDING! AND THE BEGINING AND THE MIDDLE! THIS STORY IS A OVERALL 5 START IN MY BOOK! Its about an Upper-Class twit. He meets another Upper-Class twit called Lady Lavonia Lavish. She was a rather even more of a posh upper-class twit if I say more myself. The ending was IMMACULATE. It was perfect maybe even more than perfect! It was mind-boggling funny! Well......I guess thats what you get for being a twit!Asian Leadership Collective also wrote to HarperCollins, asking for details of the process the book went through before it was signed off, and for information about how diverse the team who created it was. I read this book with my 7-year-old daughter and I can't say that I enjoyed it much. Walliams appears to have created similar characters in certain stories, just giving them different subjects that they teach; like the Art Teacher, Miss Conceit, and the Drama Teacher, Miss Palaver , who both teach their classes based around themselves. All very silly, children will blaze through these short chapters alone or with parents reading. A few stood out for one reason or another - a parent who takes all his kids' toys reminded me of the Lego Movie and the Dad who won't let his children play with the family set, a Supermum who was actually pretty sympathetic (I am a Mum, after all!). The one who hit home for me was the Dad who queue jumped. That was a good one for unloading all your wrath onto. With his poor, embarrassed children in tow. This story was the one I was most exited about. Tho it is the most creative one out of all of them.....I had higher expectations of the story..... Don't get me wrong! Its a great story! Just not my cup of tea. I don't want to go in detail in this one cause this is about a mom who clean bogs. Now...there is no shame in hard work! But the thing that happened next........THE BOGS WERE ALIVE! THEY WERE SWALLOWING HUMANS! That was a MAJOR surprise! Don't get me wrong....this is a great story, but I didn't get how she is one of the worlds worst parent. She is her son's teacher but she isn't crazy about her son to become the no.1 student or be the top of his class. The story is basically about a mother who is her sons teacher as well but the son doesn't want the school to know that. Then he gets into a fight and his mother saves him and then he tells the entire school that Miss Tutelage is actually his mother. I am just not really big fan of this story personally.

I started and finished this book with a smile on my face, and I had more then a few genuine laugh out loud moments. Millions of young readers have loved the World’s Worst Children tales – now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World’s Worst Teachers. From the phenomenally bestselling David Walliams and illustrated in glorious colour by the artistic genius, Tony Ross. But there’s even more. You can watch Grandpa's Great Escape, Mr Stink, Gangsta Granny and The Boy in the Dress on DVD. And have you listened to all of the books on audio too - hilariously read by David Walliams himself! And not forgetting that Ratburger, Demon Dentist and Awful Auntie have all won the National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year. Not only that, but The Ice Monster won ‘Children’s Fiction Book of the Year for 2018’ at the British Book Awards! As if all that wasn’t enough, lots of bigwig reviewers have compared him to Mr Funny Books himself, Roald Dahl. Make sure you don’t miss David’s newest book… MEGA MONSTER!! Walliams has his formula, and he knows his audience. For me, this is similar to the Teachers - over the top stereotypes, lots of bodily function jokes and silly lists (not complaining - they go down a storm), moral lessons for parents whose behaviour is ridiculously outlandish. Some of the teachers shouldn't even be part of The World's Worst Teachers; like the Sports Teacher, Mr Bulk, and the Head Master, Mr Phobe , who don't even rate as worse teachers, as Mr Bulk (besides telling a lot of stories about how great of an athlete he is) assists his football team in winning the trophy and Mr Phobe is simply scared of teaching children, due to some bullying incidents that he had to deal with earlier on in his career.

Die voorblad waarsku: ‘Pasop! Tien gril-en gilstories’ en die voorwoord sluit hierby aan deur te verduidelik dat die boek die leser gaan voorstel aan 10 onnies wat ‘die mislikste spul grootmense op aarde’ is. These amazing stories were illustrated by the fabulous Tony Ross, adding an extra dimension to David Walliams’ fantastic stories. Walliams gets to play up to his silliest whims, and creates here a very funny series of short stories about the stereotypes that readers will most enjoy reading about - the most disgusting kid in class, the brainiest, the laziest.