I thought Mighty Mind, Hammerhands, The Chocolatier, The Headmistress and The Politician were all great baddies. The aluminium sheeting helps to keep food fresh and cool, while the plastic body is durable and sturdy. Supercharged and ready for action and adventure, can Robodog stop the most feared criminal duo in Bedlam and thwart their evil plans to destroy the city? Another wonderful book from David Walliams, with a great storyline and really interesting and fun characters especially ratty, would love to read more of robodog and ratty's adventures, accompanied by gorgeous illustrations. Since I am not the target audience for this book, I don’t think my issues with it will affect young readers as there are so many crazy elements to this story for them to love.

His debut children's novel, The Boy in the Dress, was published in 2008 to unanimous critical acclaim and he has since developed a reputation as a natural successor to Roald Dahl.For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.

David Walliams is a very popular children's author in the UK but I've been avoiding his much-lauded books because a) I've never found his brand of humour particularly funny, and b) I read his picture book The Slightly Annoying Elephant to my kids and none of us rated it. The characters are flat and talk a lot but nothing happens, apart from things getting damaged and making sounds. Unlike Walliams's other works, this was presented as a combination of a comic strip and his trademark style. Robodog is the hilarious new action-packed comic caper from David Walliams - due for release in March 2023.It is ruled by the baddest of baddies and badly needs its own superhero to defeat these supervillains. The Chief turns to the Professor with an ingenious idea: a single dog that can aid in different police activities; a robot dog “Robodog”. These baddies include Velma, the chief and professor's cat; mighty mind, the master mind who is just a mega-brain floating in a fish bowl and is behind the notorious robberies in the city of Bedlam; and Hammerheads, mighty mind's henchperson who lost her hands and uses a hammer on each side as a replacement for her hands. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Given how much enjoyment I got from the illustrations I can only imagine how much young readers are going to love them. I loved that Plank was so silly, I think if Plank could get a medal for anything it would be for being silly.On top of that, during the second half of this book the narrative split into two and we were jumping back and forth between two storylines and two sets of characters which felt disconnected and at times really annoying. Velma is determined to wipe not only Robodog off the planet but every other dog in Bedlam, and suddenly every villain has escaped from Bedlam Prison.

I can easily see this book becoming a fast favourite with young readers, I am just sad that I didn’t love it as much as I had hoped I would. Walliams succeeds in combining his self-confessed love for the canine world with an amusing adventure story for young readers. The action begins early, even if it’s slapstick and silly, the tension builds as Robodog chases villains, supervillains are chasing dogs, and the Chief and her wife the Professor are caught up in the middle. I love that the Professor and the Chief were married because the people in the books I have read who have been married to each other have been husband and wife, so it was fun to read about a wife and a wife. Unlike Dave Pilkey’s somewhat stupid Dog Man, Robodog is not only brave, strong intelligent, and capable of heroic deeds, he is also a very likeable character who cries tears of oil when sad and whose biggest dream is to be a real dog, loved by his human parents.

The city of Bedlam is desperate; the streets are rat-infested and filthy; the buildings dilapidated, and, worst of all, the inhabitants are ruled by super villains of the underworld. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. Robodog is more on the silly side of the Walliams book scale, but there are plenty of laughs for young readers. I have a few ideas on why this book didn’t work for me but it genuinely surprised me that I didn’t love this book.