Bad Panda: WORLD BOOK DAY 2023 AUTHOR: 1

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The very rich and spoilt Billion loves animals. As long as they’re dead and stuffed. He has a house full of tiger rugs, with stag heads on the wall. And now he might have kidnapped Fu! The trees used are able to naturally regenerate, or are replaced, meaning sustainability is present in their production.

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.

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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! 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. Meet Lin. Everyone thinks Lin is the cutest panda ever. So much so that they ship her off to the local zoo, away from her beloved brother, to be ogled at by the masses.

Like the first in the series, Bad Panda, this book has widely spaced text, font that’s been chosen to support reading, and distinctive red/grey illustrations, all of which will appeal to newly confident readers. It is easy to understand what’s going on, even if you haven’t read the first book – and you’re going to want to read everything by Swapna Haddow and Sheena Dempsey after you’ve read this. It’s a brilliantly funny read.

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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! 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. 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! 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.

The Primary School Library Alliance is calling on the government to match-fund the private investment it has brought into helping primary schools c... Being cute had her sent to be the cuddly face of a foreign zoo. So maybe being bad will get her sent home?

Reader Reviews

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. Fed up of having her head confused for her bottom because she just so happens to be SOOOOPER-DOOOOOPER fluffy. Lin has had it. And in book 1, we see her doing everything in her power to prove that she's the baddest, meanest, most un-cute animal in the zoo. Of course, laughter and ridiculousness is to be expected. 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.