David Walliams Books In French

[Earleen Statham]

DavidWalliams, David Baddiel, now Ben Miller.....rich university educated men getting in on a lucrative market or simply making the most of their talent?

Personally I feel I would like my children to read books from relative unknowns (I guess JKR would have originally fitted this bracket) to allow new author to establish a career (as these guys have already had theirs)

To be fair there are plenty of female celebrities (Clare Balding, Madonna!) who dip their toe in the world of kids' books too. But celebrity children's authors are generally crap (I'm sure there are exceptions), with special shout out to the derivative trash that David Walliams produces. I feel sorry for the many fantastic writers, this is such a golden age of kids' lit, but they get next to no promotion by their own publishers, no chance of being stocked in the supermarkets' book sections, little to no reviews in newspapers. Whereas crap like Walliams' output sucks up all the attention and makes him .

Joe Wicks has got a kids book out now, at least some of the others mentioned ate known as being creatives who write comedy etc. Pisses me off! There are lots of female celebs who have "written" chicken lit type books like Vicky Pattinson, Georgia Toffolo, even Nadiya Hussein

I agree op. But it's not just children's books and it's not just men. There are thousands of fiction books published every year by people who are terrible authors - they just have a famous name. See particularly Dawn French, Fern Britton, Celia Imrie, David fucking Baddiel.

I like the David Walliams books and so do my kids. I have seen brilliant stage shows of them and like the BBC shows. Not sure what the problem with them is? Roald Dahl's books aren't all good. Agree about celebrities amd book deals but TBH I have more of a problem with slebs (male or female) publishing books they haven't written.

David Walliams are devoid of the warmth and humour Roald Dahl, who he is trying to be, had stitched through the fabric of even his scariest books. He's like an awful shock jock parody. My ds recently started secondary school and my regards for the quality of their library went up significantly when I discovered they won't stock any of his books but have already recommended some great ideas to ds based on what he has read so far.

Well I don't think kids are being served very well by having an endless number of celeb 'authored' books being given precedence. Not when there are so many truly great books around these days. If that's snobbery I'm cool with that

@Chicchicchicchiclana. Omg i read a dawn french book fairly recently..what an absolute pile of shite. I dont have a problem with famous people writing books if they are good at it. Sadly ruth jones was also shite.

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