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Gangsta Granny is hitting the West End in 2017!

The Birmingham Stage Company is delighted to present David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny! This special production is touring the country until July next year before its West End premiere at the Garrick Theatre from 26 July to 3 September 2017.

It’s Friday night and Ben knows that means only one thing – staying with Granny! There will be cabbage soup, cabbage pie and cabbage cake and Ben knows one thing for sure – it’s going to be sooooooooo boring! But what Ben doesn’t know is that Granny has a secret – and Friday nights are about to get more exciting than he could ever imagine, as he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with his very own Gangsta Granny!

“Kids loved this show. Every comic opportunity is grasped”
– The Daily Telegraph * * * *

“Brilliantly adapted and directed, this is a cracker of a show!”
– Mail on Sunday * * * *

“The brilliant Birmingham Stage Company have produced a fantastic show. It’s superb. And it’s so much better than the book”.
– David Walliams

Click here for more about the show

Excited? We thought so. Before you go, be sure to join the World of David Walliams – we’re planning a few very exciting Gangsta Granny surprises for members!

David Walliams writes for Comic Relief!

David Walliams has written an exclusive children’s picture book for Comic Relief! THE QUEEN’S ORANG-UTAN will be published on 26th February 2015, ahead of Red Nose Day on 13th March. David will donate all his proceeds from the book to Comic Relief, as will Harper Collins UK, David’s global publisher.

THE QUEEN’S ORANG-UTAN is a right royal mash-up of mischief and mayhem! And, Tony Ross is on hand to bring the wickedly funny line-up of characters to life with his always-amazing illustrations. Tony has worked with David on FIVE of his bestselling novels and will also donate his earnings from the book. Two of their previous picture book collaborations The Slightly Annoying Elephant and The First Hippo on the Moon, both rocketed to Number One in the picture book chart in their first week of publication.

THE QUEEN’S ORANG-UTAN will be published in paperback at £4.99 and AT LEAST £3 from each copy sold will go to Comic Relief. A brilliantly funny audio version has also been created by David along with Miranda Hart and Rob Brydon. On the eve of Red Nose Day 2015, the book will be published as a special limited edition hardback, with the audio CD included.

David Walliams is an honorary trustee of Comic Relief. He has raised millions for the charity already, most notably by swimming the English Channel in 2006 and the River Thames in 2011.

Since his debut children’s book published in 2008, David has taken the literary world by storm. He is now officially the biggest British children’s author to debut this century.

HarperCollins Children’s Books Executive Publisher Ann-Janine Murtagh said of David and The Queen’s Orang-Utan:

“David Walliams is a genius storyteller – adored by millions of children worldwide. He has written this wonderfully irreverent and hilarious tale especially for Comic Relief – and what a wonderful gift it is! His inimitable storytelling is on top form and will delight young and old.
We are privileged to publish David Walliams on the HarperCollins Children’s list, and delighted to be working with him and Comic Relief on the publishing of this book.”

Comic Relief CEO Kevin Cahill, said:

“David has been such a brilliant supporter of Comic Relief for such a long time. He’s clearly taken the easy way out this time by writing a book rather than swimming the Channel! We are eternally in his debt for his wonderful ongoing support.”

Money raised from the book will be spent by Comic Relief right here in the UK, as well as across Africa. It will be used to help vulnerable and disadvantaged people to turn their lives around.

10 Fun Facts About Elephants

Not ALL elephants are Slightly Annoying! Read these 10 fun facts to find out why elephants are AMAZING!

1. Elephants are the largest land animals in the world

2. Elephants can be quite thieving. They will steal food from tents, villages and even the back of Lorries!

3. Elephants don’t exactly have much respect for things that get in their way. They will quite often knock over trees, fences, walls… anything that stands between them and where they want to go!

4. Elephants migrate to find water- they travel long distances one behind the other over paths that are ingrained in their memories, regardless of whether things like roads have been built there

5. Elephants like to eat bananas and sugar cane, often demolishing local farmers crops in order to pig out on some of their favourite snacks!

6. Elephants, despite having skin that is over an inch thick, get sunburnt! But instead of sunscreen, they like to squirt mud all over their bodies to form a protective layer – imagine the mess they’d make!

7. Elephants are nosier than ANY other animals- Their trunks can weigh 400 pounds and can grow to be 7 feet long giving them the biggest noses in the world
The largest elephant on record was an adult male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder!

8. Elephants can live to be over 70 years old

9. Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication

10. Elephants can get sunburned so they protect themselves with sand

DVDs of Mr Stink, Gangsta Granny AND The Boy in the Dress!

Did you miss out on some of the amazing Walliams telly of the past few years?!

Fear not!

Now, Mr Stink, Gangsta Granny AND The Boy in the Dress are ALL available on DVD! Finally, you can get your very own copies to watch at home again and again.

Mr Stink is hilariously brought to life as shown on the BBC. The all-star cast includes Hugh Bonneville, Sheridan Smith and Johnny Vegas – and a cameo from David Walliams himself!

Gangsta Granny was the BBC Christmas hit of 2013! The fantastic cast included Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley, Rob Brydon and Miranda Hart. PLUS, if you pay attention, you’ll see cameos from Robbie Williams and David!

The Boy in the Dress is the BBC’s latest Walliams hit. Its top-notch lineup included Tim McInnerny, Jennifer Saunders and Billy Kennedy, with cameos from Gary Lineker, Kate Moss and David Walliams, as a very unusual referee!

All-Star Audiobooks!

HAVE YOU HEARD?!

ALL of David Walliams’ books are available as all-star audiobooks! That means you can hear them hilariously read by David himself! And as though that wasn’t enough to twist your arm (although of course it was!), we’ll let you in on a secret. David often calls on his super-talented (sometimes famous!) friends to lend a hand…

David’s audiobooks are AWARD-WINNING. The Awful Auntie audiobook picked up the National Book Award of Audiobook of the Year in 2014!

To listen to an exciting extract from one of your FAVOURITE Walliams’ books, or to find out more about who reads it, head over to the book pages!

David Walliams supports Save the Children

David Walliams supports Save the Children by reading some of his books during a visit to a London school where Save the Children runs one of its volunteer reading programmes.

Watch David read to his screaming audience! [See links to films below]

For parents: our campaign Read On. Get On. is striving to get all children reading well by the age of 11 – currently one in four children leave primary school not being able to read as well as they should. Take action and sign our petition now

David visits a London Born to Read School

Here are the full clips:

David Walliams reads Gangsta Granny

David Walliams reads Demon Dentist

David Walliams reads Ratburger