The World's Worst Series (3冊合售)

David Walliams
David Walliams – comedian, actor and author – continues to take the children’s literary world by storm. His tenth novel, BAD DAD, was an immediate number one, following the triumph of THE MIDNIGHT GANG, the biggest-selling children’s book of 2016. WORLD’S WORST CHILDREN 2, which published in early 2017, spent four weeks at industry number one and eight weeks at the top of the children’s chart. They have achieved unprecedented critical acclaim – and RATBURGER, DEMON DENTIST and AWFUL AUNTIE have all won the National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year.

David’s books have now exceeded 100 non-consecutive weeks in the children’s number-one spot, and have been translated into 53 languages, selling more than 35 million copies worldwide.

Tony Ross
Tony Ross was born in 1938 in Wandsworth, South London. During World War II, the Ross family moved to Cheshire, and Tony ended up at the Liverpool Regional College of Art, having abandoned his initial dream of working with horses. He had dreamed of being a cowboy, a jockey, a mounted policeman - anything in fact involving horses! At the age of seventeen, he wrote to John Wayne, offering to make his own way over to the United States if he could just play a part in a western. There was, regrettably, no reply. Tony reckons, however, that it is the Wayne-syndrome, the dazzle of the stage (his father was a conjuror, and his uncles film extras) which makes him love to put on an act in his talking-and-drawing sessions with groups of children.

Tony went into teaching after a bad day in the advertising agency where he was art director. At first he taught in all sorts of areas - design, typography, advertising. At that time he was drawing cartoons for magazines like Punch. Tony had seven tiny books accepted by Fabri, the first publisher he approached, so he "never had that baptism by fire of trudging stuff round the streets". Today, Tony's work is recognised in dozens of countries and he has won many awards.

Tony lives in Macclesfield, Cheshire, with his wife Zoe, who is also his very competent business partner. She reads his contracts, and manages the business side, allowing Tony to sit in his studio and do yet more wonderful drawings. Tony likes to experiment in art and search for new frontiers. "I'm free to do what I like: as a designer and typographer I can control and design and divide my own page. I like the form of the book to do things, the covers and endpapers to add point, make the reader puzzle and be excited." He also loves fairy tales as subject matter. "Apart from the fact that they present a ready-made idea, they come out of the past, they're part of history, and I love history in its simplest, broadest sense. I'm interested in their universal quality - Red Riding Hood, for instance, exists in 300 versions, and was a simple way, in the days when towns were small places surrounded by forests, of telling little girls it was dangerous to go into those forests." But he does sometimes change the moral. "A Dutch publisher complained to me that The Boy Who Cried Wolf has evil triumphing when the wolf eats everyone. But the boy is a little liar, and the adults indulged in the worst kind of finger-wagging, whereas the wolf is a clean, tidy, honest, wolf-like wolf - there is an essential goodness regardless of outer form."

Tony has illustrated many successful titles with CollinsChildren'sBooks, including Harry the Poisonous Centipede by Lynne Reid Banks, and the Little Wolf series by Ian Whybrow. His wonderful Little Princess books - I Want A Sister, I Want My Dinner, I Want My Potty and I Don't Want To Go To Hospital - were all reissued in paperback by Collins in August 2001, and I Want My Dummy in March 2002.

Adam Stower
Adam Stower is an author and illustrator, who has collaborated with David Walliams on several of his books for children.