Bad Badger
A Love Story
Published on 25. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-4549-5346-3 (ISBN)
Description
For fans of Odder and Skunk and Badger comes a heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship between a gull and a badger.
Septimus is not good at being a badger. He adores the sunset. He dreams of going to Venice. And he lives alone in a charming cottage by the sea. He's not unhappy with his tidy, solitary life, but there are times when being so bad at badgerdom makes him wonder if he's even a badger at all.
When a gull of very few words lands on the windowsill, Septimus leaps at the possibility of friendship. However, his new confidant soon goes missing and Septimus is bereft. Determined to find his best-and only-friend, he ventures into new territory and encounters a cast of surprising characters. Can Septimus be as brave and bighearted as he'll need to be to find Gully? Or is he really a bad badger after all?
Bad Badger is a young middle-grade novel about badgers, gulls, and learning that staying true to yourself means knowing who you are to begin with.
Septimus is not good at being a badger. He adores the sunset. He dreams of going to Venice. And he lives alone in a charming cottage by the sea. He's not unhappy with his tidy, solitary life, but there are times when being so bad at badgerdom makes him wonder if he's even a badger at all.
When a gull of very few words lands on the windowsill, Septimus leaps at the possibility of friendship. However, his new confidant soon goes missing and Septimus is bereft. Determined to find his best-and only-friend, he ventures into new territory and encounters a cast of surprising characters. Can Septimus be as brave and bighearted as he'll need to be to find Gully? Or is he really a bad badger after all?
Bad Badger is a young middle-grade novel about badgers, gulls, and learning that staying true to yourself means knowing who you are to begin with.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Union Square & Co.
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Preschool to Kindergarten, Reading Age: From 7 to 10 years, Interest Age: From 7 to 10 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
b-w illus. throughout
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
266 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4549-5346-3 (9781454953463)
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Maryrose Woodis best known as the author of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed middle-grade series about a teenaged governess and her three raised-by-wolves pupils. She's published young adult novels, too, as well as 2020's Alice's Farm, which was an NCTE Charlotte Huck Recommended Book. Maryrosetaught fiction writing at CUNYLehman College and NYU's Gallatin School, and she is proud to serve on the faculty of the Stony Brook University's Children's Literature Fellows program. She lives in Southern California.
Giulia Ghigini was born in a small town in the industrious and somewhat dreary northern Italy. She's always enjoyed drawing, and as she didn't particularly shine in anything else, she sensibly thought to just keep going.Giulia lives and works compulsively in Milan, Italy.
Giulia Ghigini was born in a small town in the industrious and somewhat dreary northern Italy. She's always enjoyed drawing, and as she didn't particularly shine in anything else, she sensibly thought to just keep going.Giulia lives and works compulsively in Milan, Italy.