An Billiunaí Beag (Billionaire Boy in Irish) Award-winning author by David Walliams (author)

Not got a billion pounds? Or even a million? Cheer up! If you’ve got good friends and this book to read, you’ve got life sorted. Joe is rich. Very rich. The wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. He has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion reasons, in fact. Like: his own bowling alley. His own cinema. Even his own orangutan butler. Jealous yet? Don’t be. Joe has absolutely everything money can buy. But there’s one huge thing missing: a friend…

The third book by the amazing David Walliams

Now in an Irish edition to read aloud and treasure

Full of humour and heart, with a touching message

Witty pictures by top children’s artist Tony Ross

“A triumphant mix of wit and warmth.” Telegraph

Product Details

Catalogue number

1002 in Setanta Primary September 2025

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781910945254

Publisher

Futa Fata

Date published

June 7th, 2018

Other details

244 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

David Walliams

David Walliams is a comedian, writer and actor and is best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the hugely popular sketch show Little Britain, and as a star judge on Britain’s Got Talent.

David is also well known for his charitable work for Sports Relief, part of Comic Relief. He took up swimming in his youth because he was overweight, and has subsequently completed long distance swims of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar and the River Thames, raising millions of pounds for charity!

In 2008 David’s first children’s book The Boy in the Dress was published, illustrated by Quentin Blake. He has gone on to take the children’s literary world by storm, dominating sales charts and twice winning the National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year. His books have now been translated into 40+ languages, and also include picture books illustrated by Tony Ross.