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The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked
- Narrated by: David Baddiel
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Literature & Fiction
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Summary
Let's celebrate World Book Day with The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked, written and recorded by the author David Baddiel, especially for World Book Day on March 3rd 2016.
This is the first audiobook to be produced for World Book Day - it’s a hugely entertaining and touching story of a boy called Alfie who likes to keep to strict routines and schedules. It’s all rules, rules and more rules in Alfie’s life.
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Critic reviews
"I love this book because it really made me laugh! The best book I've read since I was born!" (Tom, 11, LoveReading4Kids)
"Exciting and funny - I didn't want to put it down!" (Daisy, 10, LoveReading4Kids)
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- 22-03-20
Awful
I buy it and only get one chapter. It's not even chapter 1 it's chapter 2
15 people found this helpful
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- Holly Williams
- 01-06-20
GOOD BUT TOOOO SHORT 🙂
good love the story listened to it ALL Lol 😂 SOO MANY TIMES LMAO love this so much congrats 🥳 Lysm 🥺💖🔥🦋🥰💜🍩✨👑💙❤️💕🤍
13 people found this helpful
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- R. McDonnell
- 27-05-20
David baddiel is cool so cool in fact I love him
the truth is that there was no books epicer than his. David baddiel is cool.
10 people found this helpful
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- Ellen Couzens
- 05-05-20
good
loved it it was absolutely fantastic full of fun recommend it overall just fantastic
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7 people found this helpful
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- Brian Gillespie
- 05-05-20
Great short story for son and dad bedtime 🙂
Great short story for son and dad bedtime, well written and never lost our attention 🙂
7 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-09-18
very good and entertaining.Helps me sleep!
It Was a very good story line and is very chilled and I like it.!?1
14 people found this helpful
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- Lois99
- 02-05-20
children's book
lively story. Good narration. I enjoyed this book. I would recommend. Perfect bedtime story to listen to.
6 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-06-20
good short story
this was quite a good short story but it did seem a little hurried at the end Asif the story could only last so long and the writer had to finish it off quick.
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- Lorraine murphy
- 20-04-20
Odoriferous
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- Poo
- 11-12-17
It was inappropriate for children
he swore and their was porn in it I hated it now I will write a complaint to amazon
4 people found this helpful