REVIEW: Astrochimp - David Walliams, illustrated by Adam Stower (Harper Collins)
It's not rocket science to make someone laugh! Well, at least in this case. Million-copy bestselling author David Walliams is back with his best-poo-bum-fart crazy-crass adventure yet. For any kid under the age of 10 year this is a genuine laugh-out-loud racous read. Loosely, and I do mean very loosely, based around actual early animal astronauts, Walliams and illustrator/ comic artist Adam Stower have dug out the books, mined the history of early animas blaseted into space in the name of science and re-interpreted their story in this wildly wacky fantasy. We follow the story of our hero, Chump the chimpanzee, who is always playing the goat, making rude noises from both ends, picking his nose with his toes, eating the skins of bananas and hurling away the 'tasty part'. Chump was quietly minding his business at home in the New York zoo when a bunch of NASA's scientists turned up. The rest of the monkeys smartly disappeared. Chump chos...