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Code Name Bananas: The hilarious and epic children’s book from multi-million bestselling author David Walliams by [David Walliams, Tony Ross]

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Go back in time with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams for a whizz-bang epic adventure of action, laughter and secret plots – and the extraordinary friendship between a little boy and a huge gorilla that just might save the day…

1940. Britain is at war with Nazi Germany.

Eleven-year-old Eric spends his days at the place that makes him most happy: London Zoo. And there’s one animal in particular he loves: Gertrude the gorilla.

With bombs falling all over London, Eric must rescue Gertrude.

Together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside they uncover a top-secret Nazi plot…

Join David Walliams on this action-packed, laugh-out-loud adventure for all the family!

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8 years and up
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441 pages
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English
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HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Publication date

5 November 2020
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978-0008305833
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PRAISE FOR DAVID WALLIAMS:

“Dahl finally has a worthy successor” – Telegraph

“Another triumph for David Walliams. His books are a breath of wonderful fresh air” – The Sun

‘[Walliams’ books] are brilliantly, beautifully and seemingly effortlessly written … Mr Dahl finally has a worthy successor’ Telegraph

‘Walliams understands something crucial about children and stories’ Metro

“A great comic tale… Walliams is a natural wit” – Evening Standard

"Well written, funny, touching" – Observer

"A passionate celebration of individuality" – Telegraph

"Believable characters and a story that's original and intriguing” ***** – Heat

“Charming, funny” – The Times

“Has a lovely, Dahlian fluency to it” – Time Out

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The hilarious and epic children’s book from multi-million bestselling author David Walliams

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08KV5ZJBZ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks (5 November 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 125934 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 441 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 56,482 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- 3 in Children's Ape & Monkey Books
- 21 in Children's Books on Zoos

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Stefan Luke

Raj gone?

Reviewed in Australia on 9 January 2021

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where is the occasional raj appearance? I miss him :( (please bring him back, or is he missing forever?) car tractor bike plane (filling out extras, AMAZING BOOK AS WELL!)

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Kate

My son loves this.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 February 2022

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My son is falling in love with David Walliams now. Haha.

Reviewed in Australia on 24 July 2021

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Our 10 year old son just loves this book, great read!
He enjoys David Walliams books.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 March 2021

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so amazing i loved it different names.Raj gone tho?This is an amazing book amazing describing words this one of my favourite books.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 July 2021

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Classic Walliams storytelling.

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Jo McNally

Faboulous and entertaining story

Reviewed in Australia on 9 December 2020

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Read it to my class at school. They loved it and were totally hooked. Big discussions around WW2.

Reviewed in Australia on 11 July 2022

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All good

Reviewed in Australia on 9 January 2021

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A nice children's book and good service

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Helen H

This is the last David Walliams book I'll buy, they're so poorly written now.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2020

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As ever, as soon as a new book was released, we ordered it. But. This book just isn't as good. Yes, it's been churned out at astonishing speed but that seems to be the goal now. Publish publish publish, regardless of substance. The ever so predictable jokes are getting tired. The relentless mockery of others seeming rather jaded now. How he's managed to fill half a chapter mocking speech impediments I don't know but there we are, my kids all asked me to paraphrase in the end, leaving out the mocking. "It's not very kind" (9yr old). "We wouldn't be allowed to do that" (10yr old) "we wouldn't WANT to do that" (12yr old). The stereotypical mocking of class that is dragged out every book. We've only been reading it one night but the fact my 10yr old said this just sums up this review - "if it were a book by Katherine Rundell or Ross Welford or Philip Pullman or.. or... who wrote the Nowhere Emporium? (Ross MacKenzie) or The Boy at the back of the class (O'njali Raúf) then we'd all be asking for another chapter when you stopped reading but you've read 6 chapters and I think I've been daydreaming for the last 2..." David Walliams seems to have become a caricature of himself now, there seems little depth and authentic writing. The Beast of Buckingham Palace was bad but we read it. The Worlds Worst Teachers we put down after 2 chapters and didn't finish. This one, I fear, may be going the same way. We read and read and read in this house, I still read to all 3 children at bedtime for an hour - even an hour and three quarters to two hours in a really gripping book. But they're not enjoying David Walliams books any more. It's a shame that authors who genuinely produce some amazing works are not given the same opportunities for promotion as Walliams is - I think many people, like us, buy his books automatically and that's the success his publisher thrives on but there are some really super authors out here whose books I would buy automatically without hesitation. As for David Walliams books in future, I think we'll finally pass. This one is the one that's finally made me stop buying his books.

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JMP

Enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2020

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My grandson really enjoyed reading this book.
However I am disappointed in amazon for reducing the price of the book the day after sending off all the pre-orders! They will not catch me again!

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Amazon Customer

The type Ink was on our fingers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2020

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We love david Walliam's books but unfortunately when my daughter started reading , we noticed the ink from the page had transferred onto her fingers. the printers have not used permanent ink. I then checked carefully and yesthe ink was transferring to my fingers and all over my clothes

All the other DWalliams Hardbooks have Shiny pages in colour so I am a little concern if this an original and not a copy. So I am returning this

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CalMike

Read by boy age 9

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2020

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This is one of the best David Walliams books I have ever read and I've read them all! This book is set in 1940 during world war 2 and in this book Eric and his Uncle Sid try to save a gorilla called Gertrude from being shot at London zoo and end up in a Nazi submarine with the police chasing them. This book has the usual David Walliams humour throughout. I would recommend this book to any David Walliams fans.

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The Ronoc

David Walliams' PR Con strikes again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2021

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You have to applaud the shear audacity of David Walliams BLURP and his SCREECH PR juggernaut. This is yet another 'fake news' CLUNK success story. If you tell a lie PFFFFFFT often enough, people will evitably CRUNCH believe it. The lie is that this CLANG is anything better than utterly appalling. That there are adults BLURP saying this is hilarious, well written, enjoyable is testament to the fact that human beings PING are willing to accept anything as a truth if they are told ZZZIIIPPP it is true often enough and using bright colours. Excuse the CLICK use of random onomatopoeia. It's the latest trend. Without it Code Name Bananas would be, thankfully, about 100 pages shorter but still abysmal. The dumbing down of society as we know it may have started with MTV but here we plumb new depths. Utter, utter rubbish. By buying this and reading it you are lowering the average IQ of the humanity and only encouraging these sniggering muppets to keep doing it. I am ashamed that I purchased this and gave it to a child who frankly didn't know any better. Shame, shame shame.

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