Billionaire Boy

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Chapter 1 Meet Joe Spud Meet Joe Spud There is video content at this location that is not currently supported for your device. Caption for this video is diplayed below. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a million pounds? Or a billion? How about a trillion? Or even a gazillion? Meet Joe Spud. Light them instead of bits of old newspaper to get the barbecue going Keep a pad of them by the telephone and use them as post-it notes Line the hamster cage with handfuls of them and then throw them out after a week when they began to smell of hamster wee Let the same hamster use one as a towel after it’s had a shower Filter coffee through them Make paper hats out of them to wear on Christmas Day Blow their noses on them Spit chewed-up chewing gum into them before crumpling them and placing them in the hand of a butler who would then put them in the hand of a footman who would then put them in the hand of a maid who would then put them in the bin Make paper aeroplanes out of them and throw them at each other Wallpaper the downstairs loo with them “I never asked,” said Bob. “What does your dad do?”

The editorial work on the book is generally very good, with a nice play on fonts and layouts. However, the novel is stangely riddled with tiny editorial mistakes, especially regarding punctuation. Read Chapter 1 and look at the prices of some of the things that Joe has. How much are these items worth? Could you make some word problems which include the items and their values? David Walliams gives us here a fun tale that shows that money really doesn’t buy you everything, and the importance of friends. As we meet Joe Spud he is just turning twelve and is rich but lonely. When he was eight his dad came up with a new toilet roll, proving that there is money to be made in ----. Propelled into the jet set lifestyle due to its popularity so life has altered, but on the way Mrs Spud has divorced her husband and the Spuds, father and son live in a huge mansion alone with their servants.Joe and Bob like eating chocolate. Learn about how chocolate can affect our bodies in positive and negative ways. In Chapters 13 and 17, Joe isn’t very nice when Bob tries to make friends again. Talk about other ways that he could have dealt with the situation. Draw a map of Bumfresh Towers and add the different parts / rooms mentioned in Chapter 1, as well as the locations of all of the amazing things that Joe owns.

You are required to keep distance from other audience members and the venue's staff while inside this venue From the award-winning West End producers of Gangsta Granny and Awful Auntie comes this amazing new production of David Walliams' best-selling story! Being nouveau riche so Joe is bullied and looked down on by the other children at the posh school he attends, and persuades his dad to let him go to the local comprehensive. But will Joe find happiness and friends, or will other things get in the way? Billionaire Boy sees young Joe Spud-a billionaire-wanting to move to a "normal", non-posh school because he is terribly bullied and has no friends. But there's a catch: no-one can know that he is in fact a squillionaire thanks to his father's wet-n-dry toilet paper invention.At one point in the story, there is a petition to get Miss Spite reinstated. Talk about what a petition is. Are there any issues that you would like to change? Think about ways that you could help to make that change. Would a petition help? EXCLUSIVE ENHANCEMENTS AND CONTENTS VIDEO: David Walliams introduces Billionaire Boy School Lunch Menu Teachers' Catchphrases Sapphire's Birfday Wish-List Purpleness Character Voices Horrible Food Bumfresh AUDIO: Meet Joe Spud Lessons Blob Billionaire Boy is a children's fiction book written by David Walliams and illustrated by Tony Ross. It was published on 28 October 2010 [1] by HarperCollins. The story follows Joe Spud, who is the richest boy in the country and has everything he could ever want, but wishes to have a friend and eventually learns a lesson on being a normal boy. The book was adapted for BBC television, broadcast on 1 January 2016. After the success of the first two adaptations ( Mr Stink and Gangsta Granny), Walliams announced that The Boy in the Dress and Billionaire Boy would be made into television specials. Set up a new timetable for Joe at St. Cuthbert’s School for Boys, showing how long each lesson lasts. Could you use this to make up some word problems?

Watch this reading and interview with the author. Think of questions that you would like to ask David Walliams: Billionaire Boy: David Walliams". HarperCollins. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015 . Retrieved 1 February 2015. The story is about a 12-year-old billionaire, Joe Spud, who lives with his billionaire dad, who made money out of revolutionary Bumfresh toilet paper. The Spuds live in a very large country home. The two of them have everything they could ever want, such as an orang-utan butler, a bowling alley, a cinema, and servants. Joe is depressed, sad and unhappy when he doesn't have any friends. He leaves a wealthy children's school to join a local comprehensive. There he meets 12-year-old, Bob, with whom he becomes friends.Ancient Greek; Croquet; Pheasant Shooting; Being beastly to servants class; Mandolin level 3; History of Tweed; Nose in the air hour; Learning to step over the homeless person as you leave the opera; Finding your way out of a Maze. David Walliams’s latest children’s novel is an easy-going, fun book, clearly geared to appeal to boys (and we do need boys’ books), and even more clearly designed by its publisher (Harper Collins) to fill the un-fillable gap left by Roald Dahl’s death. Being un-fillable, this gap is left unfilled, but it was a worthy attempt. The outrageous display of money in the novel plays on the same instinctive craving in children. Children are the economically deprived class – however rich their parents are, they have no access to the bank accounts and have to rely on their parents for all spendings. Billionaire Boy effectively gets rid of this tough law of childhood to present a kid who can have as much money as he wants, to do whatever he wants with it. Once again, this is the ultimate dream for a child reader, and the attraction of the novel depends heavily on it.