Demon Dentist
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4.4 • 18 Ratings
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- €8.49
Publisher Description
Demon Dentist, from Children's author David Walliams.
Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow.
Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it…?
Read this book and find out!
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About the author
David Walliams is a Children's author.
Born in London, Tony Ross went to art school in Liverpool. His cartoons have appeared in famous publications the world over. His first book, Hugo and the Wicked Winter, was published in 1972. Tony has since written over 100 books and illustrated over 2000!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A bestselling author for children in the U.K., comedian Walliams (Mr. Stink) promises "a horror story. With quite a lot of made-up words" in the preface to this novel, and what follows is indeed a ghastly affair. Alfie Griffith, 12, has it rough: dead mother, dying father, and an early-life experience with the dentist so grisly that he never returned, leaving him with a mouthful of rotting teeth. When a new dentist arrives, Alfie's social worker insists he visit, even though Miss Root is clearly evil. Her arrival coincides with a disturbing crime spree: teeth left under pillows are replaced not with shillings but with horrifying calling cards: a human eyeball, a dead cockroach, a bat wing (still flapping). The grotesqueries evoke Dahl, but the comparison ends there. The jokes are stale (especially the ones at the expense of the overweight social worker), the adults all buffoons, and the plot a couple hundred pages longer than necessary. Ross's humorous illustrations recall Quentin Blake's, but aren't enough to buoy the sagging adventure or an ending so sugar-coated it would keep Miss Root in business for years. Ages 8 12.
Customer Reviews
Demon Dentist
This book was funny, entertaining and very worth reading. This book was virtually perfect in every way but I made it lose a star because at the end there was a very unneeded death of one of the main characters but they did do well with fixing up the sadness with the good and funny epilogue at the end. So I think this book is well worth buying.
Brilliant 🤩
ANOTHER brilliant book it was the second one I read I couldn’t stop reading I was glued to the sofa and the book thank you David walliams for this truly amazing book 📖❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Good Book
My daughter couldn’t stop reading it! Although, maybe make it a bit less scarier? She was terrified while she was reading it. But overall, it’s a good book. No need for the one death though.