To celebrate the release of their brilliant new book, The World’s Worst Teachers, David Walliams and Tony Ross were at Waterstones Piccadilly for a brilliant signing. Thank you to everyone who came.
Here are just some of the photos from the day!
Tickets for the brand new arena spectacular Grandpa’s Great Escape Live are now on sale. Adapted from the number one bestselling book by David Walliams, this exciting new production will tour arenas around the UK this Christmas. Visit www.GrandpasGreatEscapeLive.co.uk for full details and to book tickets. The perfect treat for you and your family!
Click above to watch the Grandpa’s Great Escape Live trailer, or watch here.
In 2018, Chichester Festival Theatre hosted a brilliant performance of The Midnight Gang, based on David Walliams’ best-selling book! David was so delighted by it that he popped in to join the gang for a read-through of their performance.
This year is the ONE HUNDRED YEAR anniversary of the Royal Air Force, also known as the RAF! Celebrate by soaring up, up, and away on your own Spitfire adventures! Here’s how…
1) Check out these amazing photographs of David Walliams‘ own grandfather, taken in 1940 during his RAF days! Do you know anyone who was in the RAF? Ask them to share their stories with you!
2) Take the Spitfire Driving Test in The World of David Walliams Book of Stuff. Remember to drive in the centre of the road so you don’t knock the wings off!
3) Read Grandpa’s Great Escape to your own Grandpa!
4) Watch 100 aircraft fly over Buckingham Palace – if you’re in London, just look up around 1:00 p.m. (BST)! You can also catch it on TV.
5) Dress up like Grandpa! Here’s how to make your own Grandpa medals and moustache at home while you’re waiting for your official costume to arrive.
6) Visit a museum! Did you know that the Imperial War Museum featured in Grandpa’s Great Escape is a real place? If you are visiting London, England, you can go there to learn about real RAF pilots, dress up in uniform, and see the aircraft up close.
7) Buddy up and take turns talking about the most THRILLING moments from Grandpa’s Great Escape, or ask your teacher to print some of these free classroom activities for you to try at school!
Hey, Hay Festival-goers! David Walliams will be taking to the stage this May in South Wales as he celebrates ten glorious years of publishing.
If you’re new to Hay Festival, it’s a fabulous event where writers, artists, academics, thinkers and performers entertain and inspire their audience to reimagine their world. Speaking to a packed audience, David Walliams will be sharing the stories behind the stories, talking about the inspiration for his best-loved characters, reading extracts from some of his favourite titles and answering questions from the audience.
He’s written quite a lot since his very first novel, The Boy in The Dress, so he’ll have no shortage of characters, plots and stories to talk about. So, there might be a mention of the characters from The World’s Worst Children series, a whiff of his inspiration for Mr Stink and perhaps a little something from his bestselling novel Bad Dad. You’ll have to wait and see!
The event is sold out, but watch this space for little snippets and photos from the event! And if you’re one of the lucky people with tickets, please drop us a line on Facebook and share your story, photos or videos from the festival.
More about the event:
This year’s Hay Festival will run from 24 May until 3 June in a beautiful tented village on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park in South Wales (UK). David Walliams will be at the Hay Festival Tata Tent on Saturday 26 May 2018 at 10am.
For more information visit the Hay Festival website.
If you weren’t able to attend David Walliams’ recent event in Manchester and see him live on stage, don’t worry! You can still catch up with all the action here! We streamed the David Walliams event using Facebook Live at the time, but you can catch up with the recording now, too.
In the theatre, David answered questions from the audience, read from Bad Dad and The World’s Worst Children, and talked about brand new book ideas!
Watch the recording below – if you were in the audience, can you spot yourself?!
Were you were lucky enough to be a Golden Ticket Winner at David Walliams’ recent event in Manchester?
If so, we’ve created a photo album of all the images taken on stage with David after the event. See if you can spot yourself and your friends! To see all the images click over to the World of David Walliams Facebook page and view the full album.
For a high resolution copy of your image, email childrens.publicity@harpercollins.co.uk with the reference number of your photo.
It’s with great excitement that we announce David Walliams is coming to Australia and New Zealand this December with his dazzling new novel, Bad Dad!
Join us as we welcome David Walliams LIVE and in conversation with very special hosts at the events below. You can expect lots of laughter and fun, as well as an exclusive extract of Bad Dad, read by the wonderful Walliams himself!
Melbourne
Presented by The Wheeler Centre
Thursday 7 December, 4.30pm
The Melbourne Exhibition and Conference Centre
Book your tickets! http://po.st/p1V7uA
Sydney
Presented by the Sydney Writers’ Festival
Friday 8 December, 6.00pm
Riverside Theatre, Parramatta
Book your tickets! http://po.st/jWmKAq
Sydney
Presented by the Sydney Writers’ Festival
Saturday 9 December, 11.30am
City Recital Hall, Sydney
Book your tickets! http://po.st/cikMAd
Christchurch
Presented by WORD Christchurch
Sunday 10 December, 5.30pm
Christchurch Boys’ High School Hall
Book your tickets! http://po.st/PFlELn
Auckland
Presented by Auckland Writers Festival
Monday 11 December, 6.00pm
Westlake Boys High School Auditorium
Book your tickets! http://po.st/JV4Ho8
For any media enquiries, please contact publicity@harpercollins.com.au (Australia) or publicity@harpercollins.co.nz (New Zealand)
On November 20th 2016, David Walliams Live visited the Birmingham Symphony Hall for a magical extravaganza. David, donning his best pyjamas, thrilled children and parents as he read a scene from The Midnight Gang and followed up with fan favourites, Gangsta Granny, The World’s Worst Children and Rat Burger.
The whole show was filmed in front of a live audience, but in case you missed it the first time around, you can watch David Walliams Live from the Birmingham Symphony Hall, in all its hilarity right here.
David topped the show off with a Q&A session, gathering questions from the audience. He spoke about his characters, namely how he came up with his well-loved character Raj, his writing and his approach to creativity. David also told the audience what his dream would be if he was in the Midnight Gang.
The audience of parents and children were treated to their own midnight feast goody bags, and a magical morning was had by all.
For more information about the books that David reads from, visit the following.
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.
