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Title details for The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams - Available

The Beast of Buckingham Palace

by David Walliams
David Walliams
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The UK's #1 bestselling children's author, David Walliams, is back with a fantastical tale of myth and legend, good and evil, and one small boy on a quest to save the world—chock-full of Walliams's unmistakable humor and perfect for fans of Jeff Kinney and Roald Dahl.

The kingdom has fallen into darkness.

Prince Alfred has never left the safety of Buckingham Palace. But there are strange goings on inside the palace walls—and Alfred's life is about to change forever.

In the dead of night something terrible stalks the corridors. When Alfred's beloved mother the queen is dragged off to the Tower of London, the boy must summon all his courage to embark on an epic quest to save her... and the entire world.

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    March 1, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9780063219571
      • File size: 154694 KB
      • Duration: 05:22:16

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      May 20, 2022
      Grades 4-6 Walliams' latest features lots of high-volume Brit-style buffoonery but with distinctly angry undertones. A century from now, England is shrouded in permanent darkness in the wake of a comprehensive, humanity-inflicted eco-catastrophe. London lies in ruins and the royal family has either gone missing or been locked into Buckingham Palace by a sinister Lord Protector (a title with Cromwellian associations, though that's less meaningful this side of the pond). It's left up to puny, 12-year-old Prince Alfred to save his family and to counter the Lord Protector's nefarious bid for supremacy, which involves subjugating 10 mighty griffins linked to different parts of Great Britain using spills of royal blood. If some of the jokes and references will pass over American readers' heads ("I haven't had this much fun since that man streaked at Royal Ascot!"), there's gunfire, heroic sacrifice, chasing about, and large explosions aplenty keep the pages turning as Alfred faces down the would-be tyrant with help from a comically malfunctioning robot butler and a crew of aging but doughty ladies-in-waiting.

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