{"id":45155,"date":"2025-06-04T23:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45155"},"modified":"2025-06-04T23:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:25:23","slug":"review-of-bad-badger-by-maryrose-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45155","title":{"rendered":"Review of Bad Badger, by Maryrose Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bad_badger_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bad_badger_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bad_badger_large.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bad_badger_large-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><em>Bad Badger<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Maryrose Wood<br \/>\nread by Chris Devon<\/p>\n<p>Dreamscape Media, 2025.  2 hours, 41 minutes.<br \/>\nReview written April 24, 2025, from a library eaudiobook.<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>Maryrose Wood is good at writing straight-faced stories that gradually get sillier and sillier.  This one is perfect for kids ready for chapter books.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bad Badger<\/em> is about a badger named Septimus who is afraid that he&#8217;s not very good at being a badger.  Instead of stripes, he has spots.  Instead of living in the forest, he lives in a cottage by the sea.  He loves listening to operas in Italian on his phonograph, collecting shells, making omelets, watching the sunset, and other activities not at all usual for badgers.<\/p>\n<p>But then Septimus makes a friend.  A seagull comes to his house every week on Wednesday.  Gully doesn&#8217;t say much besides &#8220;Caw,&#8221; but Septimus feels their friendship grow and become tremendously important to him &#8211; so they share things they each enjoy most.<\/p>\n<p>But when Gully goes missing, Septimus doesn&#8217;t know how he will find him, simply that it must be done.<\/p>\n<p>This sweet story is about true friendship and not letting others define who you are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryrosewood.com\/\">maryrosewood.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0DP5KCHPH\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/bad_badger.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/bad_badger.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Badger by Maryrose Wood read by Chris Devon Dreamscape Media, 2025. 2 hours, 41 minutes. Review written April 24, 2025, from a library eaudiobook. Starred Review Maryrose Wood is good at writing straight-faced stories that gradually get sillier and sillier. This one is perfect for kids ready for chapter books. 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