This book was a Christmas present for my 11 year old son which I had the pleasure of reading in advance thanks to NetGalley. He is a big fan of David Baddiel.and has enjoyed all of his books. He finds them funny and thinks they have a good storyline with interesting characters. I would recommend this book for upper primary and early secondary aged children.

AAAhh Billy Billy Billy what have you done?
Got yourself famous thats what!
This was a brilliant read so funny and although i am not famous i could almost see how you would get caught up in the whirlwind of excitement, which is what happened to Billy.
With his friends by his side is fame everything its cracked up to be?

A funny and fast-paced read, with an important message. Billy is a very ordinary child. So ordinary that he is unremarkable in every single way, including his name. Overnight he finds himself accidentally famous and he enters the glamorous and aspirational celebrity world.

The Boy Who Got Accidentally Famous is a story of friendship and finding out who you really are. It would be perfect for children aged 8+.

This was quite a short read but with hilarious writing and important messages. The characters will be appealing to middle-grade readers but the plot fell a bit short as it was cliche. Other than that this was a great read and would be great for children!

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the free e-arc!

Love this one! It made my 9 year old daughter and I giggle, lots of twists and turns. We’re going back to read the others in the series now!

In a world where even the likes of the vacuous Sunshine de Marto are superstars, famous for, well, just being famous, even the likes of humdrum, mundane Billy can aspire to meet her, spend time with her, and perhaps be famous like her, even if they have none of the ways and means to get to that situation. But lo and behold, Billy's school has been chosen as the subject of 'School Daze', a new fly-on-the-wall TV show. When his English class are tasked with reporting an extraordinary true story about their life, all the rest play to the camera, and fantasise about no end of nonsense. But Billy? His writing scrabbles together a few vignettes that go nowhere, partly about going nowhere, together with what he thinks are wisecracks like the in-kids might deliver. Little does he realise how so many people are famous when they're just like us (allegedly, at least) - and little does he realise that just being the relatable, Joe Average kind of Billy will get him taken to the hearts of the nation. True fame – still for being un-extraordinary – awaits...

Now, forget my lax lateness in turning to this author's books (I have met him, fer cryin' out loud, just not turned a page to see what the effect was), and ignore the way this seems to have been set in the same school as several of his previous books. I think the biggest things I took from the opening third here were that it seemed to have jokes in there for the adults – and lines for any age that failed to really land – and how it could have been written any time in the last twenty years. I mean it's fresh and up-to-date, with the "like a clock" app and a "#cancel" from the nay-sayers, but we've been suffering nonentities gaining celebrity for as long as I can remember. But from Ms Hilton to tomorrow's influencer-turned-boxer-turned-nun, none have got where they are while maintaining their mundanity.

Partly based on what I saw as lines for the older reader, or Baddiel himself, I did think – if not actually hope – this would be a book calling us all to celebrate the normal, in an aspirational manner. If everyone does have to have a Warholian fifteen minutes, make them as bland as poss. I wanted the whole school, TV audience, world, to be generic. But no, rest assured – our author is definitely writing for his target audience, and inasmuch as he's presenting the standard pratfalls-of-fame story, he is doing it in a very readable, entertaining fashion. There certainly are enough successful laughs, it's a quick page-turner, and it does have the benefit of showing the truth behind the glamour in relatable, up-to-date ways.

But excuse me, I'm away to write that Normality-Goes-Viral novel – well, anything to make a name for myself.

I’ve never read anything by David before but working in a school library I like to try and keep up with christens books. It was brilliant and I’m so glad I got to read it.