let's kick things off with one of your favorite authors he's a judge on britain's got talent
and he's written and sold over 25 million books i'm of course talking about mr david walliams
hello and i've got my little border terrier with me ernie because i thought everyone at
home would probably like to see him because he's very adorable ernie is looking fantastic he looks
like he's kind of not interested he'd rather be in his basket but i'm giving him a little cuddle and
he likes cuddles so he's okay oh well he's very welcome to blue peter as well and he's just kind
of hiding your gold blue pizza badge there that you're wearing i'm wearing it as i wear it every
day very proudly um it's wonderful well listen welcome back to blue peter of course last time
you were on the show we were in the blue peter studio now things are a bit different you're at
home with your dog on your lap sitting in your house so what's it been like during lockdown how
have you been finding it i mean luckily being a writer i can write at home and i'm also a father
so it means i got to spend more time with my son and uh you know i just kind of thought well this
this is an amazing intel he's off he's off it's an interesting interlude in life and you just got to
go with it no exactly and the blue pizza viewers have been sending in these amazing videos on how
they've been keeping busy which has been very cool and uh speaking of which you you've been keeping
very busy you've got a brand new book out called slime what can you tell me about it
well um i had a lot of fun writing this book i met this wonderful boy called dante marvin
through the variety club children's charities and he has brittle bones so he has to use a wheelchair
and he said to me can you write a book about a boy in a wheelchair to prove that we can do
anything and i thought well why not and it's about this boy called ned who uh invents by
accident slime this thing that kids love and grown-ups hate he invented by accident and it
becomes a creature a being that basically can shape-shift into anything it wants to be it can
become an elephant or a steam train or musical notes anything and he flies around the island
with his new friend slime and he takes revenge on all the horrible grown-ups that live there
all the grown-ups have been horrible to children over the years so
it was a really fun story to write because it had this very surreal very silly element of slime
itself being a character there's some pretty nasty characters in the book is it great aunt greta
she's she's pretty horrible did you did you base her on anyone or is she completely fictional
oldgress agreed uh it's not based on my aunt because i can't possibly say that
this lady gret agreed she owns this island of mulch where ned lives and she lives in a castle
with 101 cats that she's all called tiddles because she can't remember the name of 101 cats
and she's got one huge cat which is the size of a bear which she uses it as a kind of henchman um
to get at ned so i had a lot of fun creating this story about this crazy cat lady and her castle
full of cats it was it was a real really fun to write i'm going to ask you some questions based on
the names of some of your books okay it's kind of quick fire round so say the first thing that
comes into your head so based on mr stink what's your least favorite smell lemons okay and i tell
you why because simon cowell bathes in lemon milk and he has a special lemon milk bath and so when
i smell lemons i think of him and it gives me nightmares yeah no it would now i've got that
image based on rat burger would you rather eat a burger made of rats or a salad full of slugs
i've already eaten a rat and that's a true story view because bear grylls the adventurer
made me eat one on television once so um stupid of me to write a book called rat burger because i
knew this would come back and haunt me i think i'd rather have rats than slugs uh this is a
billionaire boy one if i gave you a billion pounds right now but you had to spend it all on crisps
what flavor would you go for i'd have salt and vinegar because i love salt and the naked crisps
and the good thing about sausage mining with crystal is not everyone likes them because not
everyone likes vinegar which means there's more for yourself because if you pick a crisp flavor
that everyone likes those hands are going in there you have to slap them away last one based on slime
uh which person would you most love to cover in slime that is easy donald trump the reason is he's
got quite a strange hairdo and if you drop slime on him you could find out what's really going on
with that man's hair i've been told that you've got a little treat for us and we're going to get
we're going to get to hear some of the book right now is that right i'm going to read this part
which is the prologue which is called a brief history of slime slime is one of the greatest
mysteries of the world if not the greatest it beats the creation of stonehenge laughs in the
face of the power of the pyramids and takes a giant slimy plop on the lot ness monster slime
what is it where is it who is it how is it and why is it children demand to know where slime
came from and grown-ups are desperate to know if it is ever going back for the first time in
history the legend of slime can finally be told all will be revealed in this book which might be
the most important book ever written some experts believe that slime dates back billions of years
their theory is that when the earth was created it was nothing more than a sea of slime
out of that slime came more slime and out of that slime came even more slime then of course out of
that slime came more slime it remained buried under the earth for billions of years until now
others suppose that at the dawn of time a giant meteor of slime crushed landed into the earth
on impact billions of gallons of slime exploded into the air covering every living thing in thick
slime this explains why the dinosaurs died out they got slimed there is another theory that many
years ago slime-based aliens from a slime-based planet the planet slime flew in a slime-based
spaceship to the earth once on earth they taught ancient civilizations all about slime how to
construct buildings out of slime the best recipes to cook with slime and most importantly how to
make socks out of slime then the slime-based aliens got in their slime-based spaceship
and whizzed back to their slime-based planet the planet's slime and they never came again but they
left the secret of slime with the human race so children could torment grown-ups with it forever
the truth is rather different slime was actually created more than 50 years ago on a remote island
the isle of mulch to be precise it is situated in the middle of the great north east south
western sea between the islands of twaddle and stench how do i know all this
because i just made it out that slime for you yay david thank you so much that was amazing