Bad Badger A Family Story, Maryrose Wood
Bad Badger A Family Story, Maryrose Wood
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Bad Badger: A Family Story

Author: Maryrose Wood

Series: Bad Badger

Narrator: Chris Devon

Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2026

Synopsis

From acclaimed middle grade author Maryrose Wood comes the heartwarming follow-up to Bad Badger: A Love Story. As Septimus and Gully grow from friends into a family, they weather the challenges of parenting, managing unexpected guests, and navigating the parameters of friendship. To help raise a trio of gull chicks is a rare task for a badger, even a badger as unusual as Septimus. With three spotted fluff balls underfoot, hiding in his phonograph, and pecking at his seashell collection, Septimus has his hands full. To be perfectly frank about it: living with chicks is a lot to get used to. Especially when Gully is off fishing all day while Septimus—Papa Septimus—is left in charge. Just when it seems Septimus might get a bit of the bird–free, badger–only alone time he needs, a knock at the door brings a big surprise: eight visiting forest badgers! As the chicks take to burrowing underground and gobbling up worms with their new badger family, Gully worries they will never learn to take flight. Can Septimus find a way to give the chicks a proper liftoff? Or will their family fall apart instead?Bad Badger: A Family Story is about stretching your wings and discovering what it means to be family—spots and all.

About Maryrose Wood

Maryrose Wood is the author of the critically acclaimed middle grade series The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. She lives in Los Angeles, and also writes for television and film.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Whitney on May 13, 2026

'It's wonderful to have a flock, but we really have more than one. There's the family flock you're born with...and the family flock you make...If you're lucky, you'll have a flock of great friends, and they can be like family, too....Maybe there are flocks within flocks within flocks, and no one is......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on May 04, 2026

Bad Badger: A Family Story, written by Maryrose Wood and illustrated by Giulia Ghigini, is such a charming, funny, and unexpectedly emotional read. This series has such a wonderfully quirky premise; a badger with a love for life’s finer things like Italian opera and cuisine helping raise three young......more

Goodreads review by Chrissy on March 09, 2026

Septimus the badger and his friend Gully are back with a new heartwarming story. I am equally bewildered and beguiled by this one, just as I was with the first. Septimus is undeniably loveable, and Gully even seems more of a character in this volume, although we still do not get to hear her language......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on May 13, 2026

Septimus is a badger who lives in a seaside cottage, loves opera and collecting seashells, and long baths. With his best friend Gully, a seagull, he's now helping raise her three chicks. Parenting is a lot harder than he anticipated, what with having to pack away his seashells to preserve them, alwa......more

Goodreads review by Lyon.Brit.andthebookshelf on April 28, 2026

Book Report: Bad Badger: A Family Story by Maryrose Wood In this gentle and whimsical follow up…Septimus the badger and Gully the gull are learning what it truly means to be a family…raising three lively chicks…navigating unexpected houseguests and figuring out how to care for one another through all......more

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