It has been a while since Walliams wrote a story about a girl with wit as sharp as a smooth edge of paper, a delightful sense of humour, and courage that fails at nothing.

A lot of children will probably still get enjoyment out of this, but it isn’t David Walliams at his best. Megamonster is an action-packed page-turning adventure, set on an island in the middle of shark-infested waters – where the Cruel School stands on top of a dormant volcano. When Larker is sent to the school, she quickly realises that VERY odd things are going on involving sinister Science teacher Doctor Doktur, a secret cave and a 'Monsterfication Machine'. I prefer his books that have a more tangled story such as The ice monster, The Beast of Buckingham Palace, even Code Name Bananas but maybe because I like the history element being thrown into them.

I don't know about you but the way he plays with the greys on his palette makes them so incredibly detailed. Megamonster is an action-packed page-turning adventure from David Walliams, packed with brilliant illustrations by Tony Ross. She kept asking sensible questions like why a girl climbing up a drainpipe was suddenly on the ground, how a child who hadn’t eaten in days could stay up night after night without getting tired, or why she was suddenly best friends with a boy she met briefly at one breakfast?

For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Okay, I'm going to be kind with this one, I'm an adult reading a book intended for young kids and the one thing which irritated me is probably entertaining for children.There are far too many characters in this book, all given stupid names and very little characterisation. The way the illustrations perfectly capture the story and add an awesome visual layer to this book makes for an unforgettable reading experience.

This is another mess of a book by David Walliams, there are some good ideas but as a whole it doesn’t really work. The plot was somewhat entertaining, but there was just nothing underneath it, and I think that’s what I found the most disappointing. Larker is a girl who got sent to Cruel School when a teacher picked on her and wrongly accused her of violating school rules.All of the kids except ‘larker’ get turned in to monsters, one was a slug, one was an amoeba, one was a jellyfish and so on. It's set in a fantastical world that Walliams is great at inventing and filling with a menagerie of characters. The way in which the characters learn as they go through strange yet entertaining situations is thrilling for readers. It's a fast paced book and the illustrations within the pages help flesh out the story in the readers minds eye.