AniMalcolm

AniMalcolm
David Baddiel

Jim Field

From David Baddiel, the brightest new star of children’s books and winner of the LOLLIES award, comes a laugh-out-loud adventure for every child who ever wondered what it might be like to be a bit of an animal…Malcolm doesn’t like animals.Which is a problem because his family love them. Their house is full of pets. What the house is NOT full of is stuff Malcolm likes. Such as the laptop he wanted for his birthday.The only bright spot on the horizon is the Year Six school trip, which Malcolm never thought his parents would pay for. And yet there he is, on the bus, heading to… oh no. A farm.Over the next days, Malcolm changes. He learns a lot about animals. More, in many ways, than he would like. He learns what it’s really like to be an animal. A whole series of animals, in fact…It does make him think differently. And speak differently. And eat differently. And, um, smell differently. But will he end up the same as before?Because sometimes the hardest thing to become is… yourself.

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First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2016

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Text © David Baddiel, 2016

Illustrations © Jim Field 2016

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Source ISBN: 9780008185145

Edition © 2016 ISBN: 9780008191016

Version: 2018-08-23

To Pip, Tiger, Monkey, Ron and Chairman Meow

Contents

Cover (#ue48d5b8b-96ae-56a1-b8ab-d2a0c5f08adc)

Title Page (#ue799ab25-3c5f-5772-b669-6f00d23b30de)

Copyright (#u40524631-97f0-522d-98d1-f52fef388bad)

Dedication (#u4781de15-3e98-510f-9fa4-6f39aa96d613)

Part 1 (#u4033a50a-f462-59f0-ba54-e3e00b5930fe)

Chapter One: Enormous furry ears (#u696d1345-614f-5718-8cac-dbaf7058e31c)

Chapter Two: 700 cats, 800 dogs and five giraffes (#u34fb469b-ca75-576b-b27a-c04bc2d2826e)

Chapter Three: Mini-coloured Munch Balls (#u4f8b7481-a76d-5074-96b8-5312ba1141e6)

Chapter Four: The Monkey Moment (#u7bebd8d9-9536-59d7-bafe-7e29bb17ae27)

Chapter Five: The last present (#ua3f12804-568e-5c4f-823c-a64c86220848)

One Week Later (#uafa669b1-7c98-5fdc-b02a-ff1a973f7366)

Chapter Six: We’re here! (#u076e626c-75f0-5398-9362-8d8e555378b7)

Chapter Seven: Stinky Blinky (#u5c61706e-16b9-5015-90f0-34a65cac97b0)

Chapter Eight: K-Pax (#ua4d92c01-3665-573f-9f52-441379cf1580)

Part 2 (#ub89711ab-d8b5-5abe-9dc9-c9095948679d)

Chapter Nine: Kind of green (#ue12012b8-3c3f-5c08-9cba-dbf18ab0e694)

Chapter Ten: Option C (#uabf613c9-68ff-5a40-a393-c4ea94060a0f)

Chapter Eleven: Benny and Bjorn (#u91d5d7f9-2901-54ea-8844-55e8746f601c)

Chapter Twelve: A sudden chill (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen: Manky lettuce (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen: That’s porpoises (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen: Hello M (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen: Slurp slurp slurp (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen: Catamanny story (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen: So cat (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen: Hey, boy (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty: The Dollys (#litres_trial_promo)