The World’s Worst: Book 1
Publication Date: September 9, 2025
GET READY FOR SOME SUPERSIZED FUN!
When is the queen not just the queen? When she is WONDERQUEEN!
KAPOW!
Is that an especially large bird? Is it a weirdly small plane? No: it’s THUNDERHOUND!
BLAM!
When her schoolteachers turn into deadly dinosaurs, who can possibly stop them? Why, DINO-KID, of course!
ROAR!
Be amazed by these ten thrilling adventures, featuring the bravest, strongest and silliest superheroes the world has ever seen, alongside more secret lairs, disguises and surprises than you will believe possible!
Illustrated in marvellous colour, this collection is super, it’s duper and most importantly – it’s wuper.
The World’s Worst Superheroes by David Walliams is a hefty graphic novel filled with quirky illustrations, highlighted vocabulary to emphasize the zany, and a storyline designed for those kids who live for humor.
Walliams is a master of imaginative, off-the-wall stories. This book is composed of ten short stories, each featuring a superhero with an intended bizarre talent. If you need a hint, one character is covered in snot, and another is a famous farter! I got a chuckle at the characters that gave a seeming nod to Queen Elizabeth and Donald Trump. The villains that wreak havoc across the book all seem to be created by kids hyped up on a lot of sugar. I could imagine a group of elementary kids trying to top each other, offering ideas for villains: “A woman covered in gravy!” “Oh, how about a phantom that farts?” Young readers will not have come across the likes of these heroes or villains in any other book unless Walliams wrote it.
David Walliams adds to his collection of “The World’s Worst” with this one being The World’s Worst Superheroes. This might be a source for the fastest reading of 300 pages for any kid looking for belly laughs caused by zaniness. 
David Walliams has taken the children’s literary world by storm since publishing his first book in 2008. His novels have been translated into fifty-five languages, have received huge critical acclaim, and have sold over 54 million copies across the globe.
Adam Stower is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books. Adam was born in England, grew up in Switzerland and has loved drawing ever since he was old enough to hold a crayon. He went to art school in Norwich, and Brighton too, where he still lives beside the sea with his wife and a cat called Murray.
