Bad Badger, Maryrose Wood
Bad Badger, Maryrose Wood
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Bad Badger
A Love Story

Author: Maryrose Wood

Series: Bad Badger #1

Narrator: Chris Devon

Unabridged: 2 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2025

Synopsis

For fans of Odder and Skunk and Badger comes a heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship between a terse seagull and a badger who is not very badgerish. 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.

About Maryrose Wood

Maryrose Wood is 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. Maryrose taught fiction writing at CUNY–Lehman 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.

About Giulia Ghigini

Giulia Ghigini was born in the 1980s in an industrious and somewhat dreary small town in northern Italy. She’s always enjoyed drawing, and as she didn't particularly shine in anything else growing up, she sensibly decided to stick with it. Twenty years into her career, she’s worked with National Geographic Books, the Wall Street Journal, Mondadori, Feltrinelli, Max Mara, Ikea, Rolling Stone, and various other magazines, ad agencies, and publishers. Giulia lives, and works compulsively, in Milan, Italy.

About Chris Devon

Chris Devon is an audiobook narrator with more than sixty titles to his credit. He is also a voice actor and presenter with over ten years of experience in radio, corporate recording, and on stage. Every week he uploads videos to his sketch-comedy YouTube channel Comedy Beef.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron on February 23, 2025

I’ve fallen head over heels for Septimus. He’s the fretful hero of Maryrose Wood’s snuggly new novel, “Bad Badger: A Love Story.” Wood may be writing for readers ages 7-10, but this is a book you’ll want to savor with a cup of tea before the kids get home from school. When we meet Septimus, he’s livi......more

Goodreads review by DaNae on April 26, 2025

Sweetly absurd. This book is the embodiment of the ‘cozy vibe’ talked about so much on the Book Tube channels I frequent. I have no objection to this book, I found it enjoyable. The low rating is a reflection of how uninterested I was in finishing this VERY short book and wondering just who would be......more

Goodreads review by Tricia on February 24, 2025

This book was adorable, relatable, beautiful, and inspiring, scattered with lovely little tidbits of insightful wisdom by which to live your life. At its core, it’s a book about loneliness and belonging, through the lens of a socially-anxious oddball who’s spent his life believing he’s bad at being......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on April 02, 2025

Out of nowhere, this might be my favorite new middle grade novel. We have lovely and flawed characters, lessons without moralizing, a little mystery, a lovely setting, opera and tea, and a beautiful friendship. The narrator did a gorgeous job and I will be gifting this one again and again. Thanks to......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 22, 2025

Absolutely lovely story of friendship. I hope many will discover this for a read aloud!......more

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