Awful Auntie

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But I'm not going to give any author unconditional praise if it's not due. But I was disappointed by lots of things in this latest Walliams offering. Aunt Alberta is in a mission of seeking an inheritance of the Great Saxby Hall, corners her cousin Stella and tortures her. Stella lost her parents in an accident, she was in a state of futile. “Soot” a Chimney ghost comes in, to aid her. The book sold over 50,000 copies in a single week after its release, and has been met with high marks from reviewers. [4] In October 2014, four weeks after its publication, Awful Auntie had become the top-selling children's book of the year. [5] In January 2015, the book was confirmed as 2014's best-selling children's book. [6]

This is the story of Stella Saxby who is the rightful heir of the Saxby Hall but her awful auntie (or, more like her sinister evil auntie) want the manor for herself. Her auntie is evil and there is no stopping her. There is a constant cat-and-mouse chase between her and the auntie. Teta Alberta je zbilja grozna, i nema toga što bi tu njenu grozotu, zloću, gramzivost i sebeljublje umanjilo do kraja romana. Ona je grozna i točka. S njom tih 30-ih godina 20. st. živi mala Stella, koja će uskoro napuniti 13 godina i koja je nakon smrti svojih roditelja naslijedila imanje Saxby Hall. Alberta muči Stellu jer se želi dočepati bratove oporuke kako bi prisvojila Saxby Hall. I tu se zapravo odvija cijela radnja: Alberta muči Stellu, Stella želi pobjeći, pomaže joj duh Soot, pa jedni druge naganjaju i podvaljuju u čitavom romanu. Soot was an interesting character, though I knew what he was, his role and everything else, from the start. It was just so obvious that it would be odd had it been something else entirely. He was a good friend to Stella, though I felt sorry for the idea that she would lose him so soon. His accent was a bit annoying and it took me some time to get through the parts that featured him talking.Someone bought Celyn this book in hardcover. It looks to be if not a fat book then at least not slender. Inside along with a font large enough to be seen from space, and frequent illustrations (no bad thing, though Celyn can't see them) there is one tactic used over and over to pad the thing out. This is a book I would recommend you put on your Christmas list! It will make you laugh all day long” Amber, aged 11 This was a lovely children's book which I enjoyed a lot. If I read this when I was a child, I'd have loved it so much more I am sure. The ending was just a bit too dramatic and too much for me. I had hoped for something else, but instead even the ending had to be silly and weird like the rest of the book. It was also a bit disgusting. Awful Auntie won the Specsavers National Book Awards "Children's Book of the Year" in 2014. [7] Film adaptation [ edit ]

Because that is also what the problem is with the books, they are over-the-top, overkill and trying way too hard to be funny. Trying to be funny is one thing, when it works, but this just feels like someone is trying to hard to make sure people laugh, trying to insert any silly situation or puns.A very amusing butler in the ancient Gibbon, muddling up everything nicely. Even though he is underused. Stella este o fetiță de 12 ani ce se trezește imobilizată la pat și captivă în propria casă de către mătușa ei, Alberta.