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Автор Дэвид Эдвард Уэльямс
Contents
Dedication
Prologue
Part I: Reach for the Sky
1 Spam à la Custard
2 Slippers
3 A Waft of Cheese
4 Second-hand Trike
5 Loon in the Moon
6 A Runaway Bulldozer
7 Disneyland for Old People
8 Spit it Out!
9 Coloured Chalks
10 Facts Facts Facts
11 A Legend
12 Bunking Off
13 The Willies
14 Cartwheels of Joy
15 Snoring Like an Elephant
16 Empty Bunk
17 Nothing
18 Jiggery-Pokery
19 Bird of Prey
20 Breaking the Rules
21 Jungle Roar
22 Forty Winks
23 Nuts and Berries
24 A Wardrobe in a Suit
25 Deeper Doo-Doo
26 Turning the Tables
27 Behind Enemy Lines
28 A Costly Call
29 A Shadowy Figure
Part II: A Matter of Life and Death
30 Twilight Towers
31 The World’s Ugliest Nurses
32 Weeping Willow
33 Slither Like a Snake
34 Hidden in a Moustache
35 Still More Socks
36 With a Spoon?!
37 Something Dark, Something Creepy
38 Dummies
39 Bonkers
40 A Rope of Knickers
41 Jolly Good Show
42 Bruises on the Bottom
43 Down the Hatch
44 All Sorts
45 Wigs and Make-up
46 Burned Moustache
47 Shake & Go
48 Inferno!
49 Hot as Hell
50 Coffboggan
51 Swoon
52 Lost Marbles
Part III: One of Our Aircraft is Missing
53 Glory Days
54 Racing the Sun
55 Driving a Tank
56 Fill Her Up!
57 ZOOM!
58 Never Surrender
59 Pure Poetry
60 Speeding Through Fire
61 Down to Earth
Part IV: The Way to the Stars
62 Salute to a Hero
63 Broken Noses
64 Pants on Fire!
65 An Army of Oldies
66 Goodbye
Epilogue
Glossary
More from the World of David Walliams
Also by David Walliams
Copyright
About the Publisher
Dedication
HarperCollins
presents
Written by
DAVID WALLIAMS
Illustrator
TONY ROSS
Editor
RUTH ALLTIMES
Desk Editor
GEORGIA MONROE
Text Designer
ELORINE GRANT
Cover Designer
KATE CLARKE
Sound
TANYA BRENNAND-ROPER
Marketing
ALISON RUANE AND NICOLA WAY
Promotion
GERALDINE STROUD AND SAM WHITE
Director
RACHEL DENWOOD
Mr Walliams’ literary agent
PAUL STEVENS AT INDEPENDENT
Executive Producer
CHARLIE REDMAYNE
Produced by
ANN-JANINE MURTAGH
This is the tale of a boy called Jack and his grandfather.
Once upon a time Grandpa was a Royal Air Force pilot.
During World War II he flew a Spitfire fighter plane.
Our story is set in 1983. This was a time before the internet and mobile telephones and computer games that could be played for weeks on end. In 1983 Grandpa was already an old man but his grandson Jack was just twelve years old.
This is Jack’s mum and dad. Mum, Barbara, works at the cheese counter in the local supermarket.
Dad, Barry, is an accountant.Raj is the local newsagent.
Miss Verity is the history teacher at Jack’s school.
Detectives Beef and Bone are a crime-fighting duo.
This is the town’s vicar, Reverend Hogg.
This security guard works at the Imperial War Museum in London.
Miss Swine is the matron of the local old folk’s home,
Some of the elderly residents there include Mrs Trifle, the Major and the Rear Admiral.
