The Boy in the Dress

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By David Walliams, and and, Quentin Blake
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The sparkling debut children’s novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country.
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My favourite character is the boy because at first he is shy but then he met a friend and were a dress.
This book is great. It was amazing.
It is a bit cringe but there is a kid but he wears lipstick in his blouse
Funny
I would recommend this book to everyone ages from 8-12.It is a David Walliams book It was amazing and I really wanted to keep reading. It took me 2 days to read the whole book.
The boy in the dress is about a boy that gets suspended for pretending to be a girl and gets expelled from his school but what he does not notice is that they need him for the football match and notices that the headmaster actually pretends to be a girl.
It's so cool and it's expressing the boy and his feelings
Really good book
This book is very good but not the best
I loved this book because it tells me about that even though your a boy or a girl you can still do boy an girl stuff.
I think, I *think*, David Walliams was trying to write a book that was kind and inclusive, it’s just that he’s really bad at it.
Dennis wears a dress but only when disguised as a girl, he can’t just wear a dress and be happy about it. Plus it’s fine because he’s awesome at football and fancies a girl. It’s not like he’s gay or anything. He just wants to wear a dress, okay? Spoiler alert: the male headteacher also wears a dress on a Sunday morning to fetch the papers and Dennis uses that fact to bribe the headteacher because if Dennis tells people, the headteacher will be a laughing stock. What? Why? I thought we were being inclusive of males who want to wear dresses? But definitely not LGBTQ+ people or class or racial stereotypes. Just the very specific situation where a young boy, who is awesome at football and very manly, wants to disguise himself as a girl. That’s the only thing that’s fine.
The fat white lorry driver, the south Asian who runs a newsagent and the overbearing south Asian mother are awful perpetuations of stereotypes and the handling of Dennis’ friend Darvesh and his patka made me cringe so much I felt sick. “I just wear this funny thing on my head”. My god! It’s so bad. I really do think he was trying to give out a positive message but that’s not how it was received by me.
Truly awful. But then, he was a writer for Little Britain so I suppose that fits.
It was very funny
It was funny
Good book but not my favourite
Easy read with a life lessons
I think it's a realy good book and I also feel sorry for Denis because of his mum
Not as enjoyable as the other books by the same author.
I liked this book because the boy stood up for himself.
Funny and I liked the way how the Dad was angry and then in the end turned nice
It was really good
It was GOOD and eventful oh and the rest is a surprise !!!
This book teaches me that its good to be different
It is quite sad and weird
I thought this was very funny in parts. I like that the boy played football as I love football too.
Great. Book
A great book with many hilarious moments and unique characters. The book is way better than the movie !
It was amazing I loved the book because it tells boys and girls it’s ok to be what you want
Me and my mam really liked this
One he is a good author
Boy in the dress was a bit boring at the start, but as you dive deeper into the world of curiosity it got very fun It is also full of adventures and trying new things
And how to be yourself and express yourself. It’s a good book and I would recommend reading it again. It was very fun and an amazing amazing book to read. I loved it and it made me think want to read more of David Walliams
Loved it. Very funny