After a Gangsta Granny and a Demon Dentist, we now have an Awful Auntie!

David Walliams, the popular children’s book author of booky hits including The Boy in the Dress, Gangsta Granny and Mr Stink, has revealed the cover of his seventh book, Awful Auntie, which is due out this September.

The titular awful auntie is Aunt Alberta, a tiddlywinks-obsessed, owl owner who tries to cheat the young Lady Stella Saxby out of her inheritance – the grand Saxby Hall. Stella teams up with the mischievous Soot, the chimney sweep ghost, and tries to stop her awful aunt from carrying out her dastardly plans!

Awful Auntie, which is due out 25 September 2014, is illustrated by Tony Ross, who has worked on four of David’s books so far. Walliams has also previously worked with the legendary illustrator Quentin Blake.

David Walliams is the biggest UK children’s author to debut this century and has now sold over 3.8 million books in the UK - that’s a lot of books!

David tweeted the cover this morning as a present for everyone, because it is also his birthday today. Happy birthday David!

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