Bad Panda: WORLD BOOK DAY 2023 AUTHOR: 1

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Polly Crosby tells ReadingZone about her novel, This Tale is Forbidden (Scholastic), a fractured fairy tale set in a dystopian world. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Read this funny early chapter book with fantastic illustrations to find out and do your best not to fall in love with her. They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated!

Knowing her adorable perfection got here there, she decides that being a complete rotter of a panda will get her out. Lin is such a darling and perfect panda, she finds herself being sent to the zoo, away from her family. There was just the right amount of choice to suit everyone without being overwhelming and I received comments from parents and staff about the quality of books offered compared to previous sales which have always been based around current crazes and well known celebrity authors. I have been recommending this book non-stop ever since I read it when it was published and it is still one of my 5-8 years old favourite book! After the publication of I Don't Like Books and This Book Has Alpacas and Bears, she ventured outdoors with two books celebrating being outside - Puddling!But Lin HATES being cute, and now she will do everything in her power to prove that she’s the baddest, meanest, most un-cute animal in the zoo. Ross Welford introduces Time Travelling with a Tortoise, the sequel to Time Travelling with a Hamster, and a whole new time travel adventure! Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today.

Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do. This book is every bit as fabulously silly and hilarious as you'd hope from the title, and my 7-year-old and I devoured it, reading the whole book within a single day and (both of us! Your selection was perfect for our children and what really made the difference was your ability to engage with each child, discuss their interests and help them to choose a suitable book based on your extensive knowledge of the books you were selling.

Lin and her best friend Fu are less than impressed with the prancing lion that wants to take centre stage. Lin is trying hard to be bad, but even when she does bad things like chasing pigeons people always say “Ah that baby panda is SO CUTE!

No-one believes her and she is finding it hard to convince her fellow zoo animals from taking back control of the zoo. She is born at a panda sanctuary but is moved to a zoo because she is the cutest panda in the WORLD! Bad Panda is filled with crazy anarchic humour, and delightfully illustrated throughout – with fabulous little ‘comic’ spreads in there too to mix it all up.Come and meet Bad Panda – the fabulously hilarious new young fiction novel from Swapna Haddow and Sheena Dempsey. Swapna Haddow lives in London with her karate-chopping,swash-buckling son (his words not hers), her thirty-something, age-sensitive husband and Archie the Dog. Emma Perry is a children's book author, a teacher, the founder of MyBookCorner and organiser of International Book Giving Day. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally).