A comical, gripping and loving book filled with exiting turns and intelligent plots.

Bad Dad is a story about a family that start out rich, but  then every thing falls apart. The towns three greatest criminals find a way to get Franks loving father in to prison. But Franks has a plain to get him out!

David Walliams is very good at writing in a funny style, one example of this is when Auntie Flip reads her poems. My favourite character is Raj the newsagents. He is very nice to Frank and his products are gone off and priced to high!  I particularly like the part where they went into the well. There are meany breathtaking moments in this book,like the police chase. Through the story David Walliams explores the theme of family. For example when the family splits up on farther day . I really enjoyed reading  this book because it gets me on the edge of my seat.

I would thoroughly recommend this book to people the age of 9 and up.