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They look all over the house and discover lots of different shaped and sized drinking glasses. Some with and some with. This story would definitely encourage children to go off and do their own hide and seek. The winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2023 have been announced, with one winner from each of the four categories announced: Picture book, Children... Meet Lin. She’s a bad panda. She lives in the zoo with her friends Fu, also a panda, and Malo, a monkey. After a fun banana-throwing competition, Fu is nowhere to be found and Lin soon realises that he’s missing. At the same time, there are rumours of a terrible child visiting the zoo. And not just any terrible child – Billion McDingle-Waddlington, the most fearful child of all. I was delighted to get an early copy of Bad Panda. A funny and highly illustrated new series by the duo who also wrote Dave Pigeon. A hilarious story featuring two Pandas immediately grabbed my attention. It is an entertaining and funny story about a Panda called Lin who is fed up of being cute and tries to be really bad. But, her attempts at being bad keep going wrong and the visitors at the zoo end up liking her even more! A characters that wants to be bad, who’s fed up of being called cute and ‘a-fluffy-wuffy-bear’, but who never quite managed to be bad is a great combination that I think children will really relate too.
Bad Panda by Swapna Haddow was silly as can be, a mix of graphic novel style at times with more text-heavy sections like an early chapter book, and really a dream for the mischievous among us. Lin is such a darling and perfect panda, she finds herself being sent to the zoo, away from her family. Knowing her adorable perfection got here there, she decides that being a complete rotter of a panda will get her out. The writing is raucous, her antics are fabulously naughty, and she also wins you over with her intentions to get home to her brother. This is much harder than she ever imagined. With her new Panda enclosure buddy Fu alongside, Lin is BAD. Growling, scaring, not washing her paws. Even copying one of the scariest animals in the zoo!Lin loves to play with her big brother. Face-Like-A-Bag-of-Potatoes. But one day he does a massive poo in the carpark and is sent to live on the other side of the sanctuary. I love how Sheena Dempsey’s illustrations increase the scale of the poo! This is definitely a story where you need to look at the text AND the pictures. What makes a panda turn bad? Well, Lin has tried being good and doing all the right things and where has it got her? Thousands of miles away from her beloved brother, Face-Like-A-Bag-Of-Potatoes, is where.
What do you get from sewing the head of a smart dog onto the body of a tough police officer? A new superhero from the incorrigible creator of Captain Underpants. Being cute had her sent to be the cuddly face of a foreign zoo. So maybe being bad will get her sent home? Bestselling author Alexandra Christo, author of TikTok sensation To Kill a Kingdom, introduces her new book, The Night Hunt (Hot Key Books), a dark... If you enjoyed reading the hilarious adventures of Dave Pigeon, you will be on the floor crying with laughter when reading Bad Panda, the super funny series with two-colour illustrations throughout from the very same creators! Towards the end when Lin the Panda thinks she has done something that will make the humans so mad she will have to be sent home. Things don’t turn out quite how she’d planned. There are some important messages about how captive animals should be treated and how zoos should be organised.There is an amusing meeting with two humans dressed up as Pandas. A monkey who befriends them and then hides in the zoo shop and pretends to be a cuddly monkey and the young King Cobra with a story to tell.
Lin, Malo and their new small raccoon friend must follow the clues and rescue Fu. And so begins a funny and silly adventure that will have children giggling for ages. Coffee house Caffè Nero has announced the 16-strong shortlist for the inaugural Nero Book Awards, recognising the outstanding books of the past 12... Well, we’re happy (a lot happier than Lin, anyway…) to present to you, our lovely customers and readers, an exclusive sneak preview of the brand-new book published by Faber – Bad Panda!Dapo Adeola, Tracy Darnton, Joseph Coelho and Chitra Soundar are among the 19 authors and illustrators longlisted for the Inclusive Books for Child... The trees used are able to naturally regenerate, or are replaced, meaning sustainability is present in their production.
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