Billionaire Boy

Billionaire Boy by David Walliams. hardcover edition. ISBN: 8601300027012.

A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from the author of The Boy in the Dress and Mr Stink. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joes rich. Really, really rich. Joes got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. Hes the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. But Joe isnt happy. Why not? Because hes got a billion pounds! and not a single friend. But then someone comes along, someone who likes Joe for Joe, not for his money. The problem is, Joes about to learn that when money is involved, nothing is what it seems. The best things in life are free, they say -- and if Joes not careful, hes going to lose them all!