- Bullying, Families, Pets, Juvenile fiction
"Meet Zoe. She's got a lot of things to be unhappy about.... Her Stepmother is so lazy she asks Zoe to pick her nose for her. And the school bully loves flobbing on her head. Worst of all, the dastardly Burt has terrible plans for her pet rat. I can't tell you what those plans are, but there's a clue in the title of this book.........."
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- David Walliams
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 321
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Children's Books, Atebol, Dom Wydawniczy Mała Kurka
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- cat, wel, Polish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780007453528
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Walliams began writing children's novels in 2008 after securing a contract with the publisher HarperCollins. His books have been translated into 53 languages and he has been described as the fastest-growing children's author in the UK with a literary style compared to that of Roald Dahl.
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