David Walliams was inspired by Dante, 11, to create a book based on a boy in a wheelchair.
Variety Young Ambassador, Dante, met David Walliams with 11 other children to hear him read a story.
However, Dante had another agenda, and knew exactly what he wanted to ask him.
Dante, from Liverpool, challenged the UK’s leading children’s author to invent a new sort of super hero – in a wheelchair.
David Walliams: Children’s books author promises book with a character in a wheelchair
Dante asked the Little Britain star: “Please write a book about a boy in a wheelchair to show kids that they are special transporters and can take you anywhere your imagination wants to go? Maybe he could be called Dante!"
Dante explained after the meeting: “I went to meet ‘the’ David Walliams – well, David Walliams met ‘the’ Dante. It was probably the best experience of his life!”
“I said could you make me one of the characters in your book, so I can show other kids that even if you’re in a wheelchair you can go as far as your imagination.”
He added that his character could declare: “I’m Dante and I’m here for the disabled!”
David told Dante: “Of course I can! The thing is, what we want in children’s books is for everyone to be represented. In all kinds of ways.
“You don’t want it all to be boys. You don’t want it all to be girls.
“You want it to be people of colour. And, of course, being in a wheelchair is a very specific thing that could be represented.
“So, you know what? I haven’t done it yet but I will try! The thing you’ve got to do as an author, as much as you want to write about all kinds of stuff, is you’ve got to think of a story as well. But
