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Goodnight, Little Panda
Illustrations by Vikki Chu
ISBN 978-1-4197-5157-8
h g t i , n L d i ttle o o G
Panda
baby animal tales
Featuring a unique blend of photographs and
Wood • Winnel • Chu
Little Panda won’t eat her dinner. It’s much too munchy and crunchy! But when the other animals offer to share their food with her, she starts to think that maybe bamboo isn’t so bad after all . . .
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h g t i , n L d i ttle o o G
Panda
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N E W YO R K
Once upon a bedtime, there was a little panda. She lived with her family in the middle of a great big forest of bamboo. This is an advance, uncorrected proof. Not for resale, duplication, or reposting. Please do not quote without comparison to the finished book.
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The panda family would spend the day snoozing in the shade of the bamboo trees. And when they weren’t snoozing, they would munch on the long bamboo leaves. And when they weren’t munching, they would crunch on the tough bamboo stems.
Munch, crunch! Munch, crunch!
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But Little Panda had had bamboo for breakfast . . . She’d had bamboo for lunch. She didn’t want bamboo for dinner too! “There must be something else I can eat,” Little Panda thought to herself, This is an advance, uncorrected proof. andNot shefordecided to go and resale, duplication, or find it. reposting. Please do not quote without comparison to the finished book.
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“Have you got anything nice to eat?� she asked the monkeys.
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“There’s some nice juicy lichen that’s fallen from this tree,” said one monkey. “You might like that.”
But the lichen was all icky and sticky, and Little Panda didn’t like it one bit.
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Dribble, dribble. Yuck!
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“Have you got anything nice to eat?” she asked the birds.
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“We are pecking seeds,” clucked the birds. “Be our guest.”
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Nibble, nibble. Yuck!
But the seeds were all itty and bitty, and Little Panda didn’t like them one bit. “You’d have to eat a lot of them to feel full,” she thought, starting to feel quite hungry.
“Have you got anything nice to eat?” she asked the frog. “How about this wriggly worm?” suggested the frog. But the worm was much too slithery and slimy for Little Panda.
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Wriggle, wriggle. Double yuck!
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Poor Little Panda. Her tummy was feeling all empty and rumbly.
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Just then, Red Panda came scampering through the forest.
“Hello,” he said. “Why do you look so miserable?” “Because I’m very, very hungry,” said Little Panda. “And I really, really want something yummy for dinner.”
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“I’ve got just the thing,” said Red Panda. “It’s munchy and crunchy and it’s my favorite thing to eat!”
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And he gave her a great big bunch of bamboo!
“Munch, crunch!” went Little Panda.
“Munch, crunch!”
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And they both agreed (after quite a bit of munching and crunching) that bamboo made the best dinner ever.
“Did you find something nice to eat?” asked Little Panda’s mommy when she returned to her panda family. “Yes, thank you!” said Little Panda as she settled down for a nice long snooze. “And I’m going to eat it again for breakfast too!” Goodnight, Little Panda! This is an advance, uncorrected proof. Not for resale, duplication, or reposting. Please do not quote without comparison to the finished book.
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Cover © 2021 Magic Cat. The illustrations in this book were created digitally. Set in Above the Sky, Recoleta, and Cabin. Library of Congress Control Number 2020940785 ISBN 978-1-4197-5157-8 Text copyright © 2021 Amanda Wood Photographic illustrations copyright © 2021 Bec Winnel Photographic images used under license from Shutterstock.com Illustrations copyright © 2021 Vikki Chu Book design by Nicola Price First published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Magic Cat Publishing Ltd. First published in North America in 2021 by Magic Cat Publishing, an imprint of ABRAMS. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Printed and bound in China 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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