Little Wolf’s Book of Badness

Little Wolf’s Book of Badness
Ian Whybrow

A new edition of the first novel about much-loved character Little Wolf from the author of the MEERKAT MADNESS books and HARRY AND THE BUCKETFUL OF DINOSAURS.All Little Wolf wants to do is stay at home with Mum and Dad and Baby brother Smellybreff. Instead he’s packed off to Cunning College to learn the 9 Rules of Badess and earn his Gold BAD Badge from his wicked Uncle Bigbad. He sets off on his journey, sending letters home as he adventures in the big wide world.A hilarious adventure from the author of MEERKAT MADNESS

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First published in Great Britain by Collins in 1995

This edition published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2012

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Text copyright © Ian Whybrow 1995

Illustrations copyright © Tony Ross 1995

Why You’ll Love This Book copyright © Jeremy Strong 2009

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By Jeremy Strong

Clever, brave, funny and always the optimist, Little Wolf quickly wriggles his way into your your heart and stays there. Lurching from one perilous adventure to the next and living on his wits, Little Wolf manages to remain winningly bouncy about Life and Living.

At the same time he also provides us with delightful observations concerning family and relationships. Ian Whybrow has created a real classic with this gem of a story and Tony Ross’s drawings provide a perfect match.

This is one of the best blinking blunking books I’ve read. Definitely.

Jeremy Strong

Jeremy Strong has written over eighty books, including several best-sellers and award-winners, such as The 100 Mph Dog and Beware Killer Tomatoes. He spends much of his time visiting schools and festivals world-wide to entertain and inform children and to encourage their own reading and writing. He is particularly keen to pass on the joy of books to young children in the hope of starting up a lifetime’s habit.

The Lair, Murkshire

I have had no reply to my many letters to you. I therefore have no choice but to send this one by the paw of my eldest cub, Little Wolf. I want you to be his teacher.

Little is a bad boy at heart, I am sure, but he is worryingly well-behaved at the moment. He has been far too nice to Smellybreff, his baby brother, and only yesterday he went to bed early without being growled at. His mother and I think that it is time he left the Lair and had some adventures. We want him to go to Cunning College to learn his 9 Rules of Badness, and earn a BAD badge, just as you and I did long ago at Brutal Hall.

We are at our wits’ end. You are our only hope. We rely on you to make a beast of Little Wolf.

Your anxious brother,

On the road to Lonesome Lake

Day 1 – morning

Please please PLEEEEEZ let me come home. I have been walking and walking all day, and guess how far? Not even ten miles, I bet. I have not even reached Lonesome Lake yet. You know I hate going on adventures. So why do I have to go hundreds of miles to Uncle Bigbad’s school in the middle of a dark damp forest?

You say you do not get on in life these days without a BAD badge. But I know loads of really bad wolves who never went to school. Ever. Like my cousin Yeller for one. I know you want me to be wild and wicked like Dad, but why do I have to go so far away? Just what is so wonderful about Cunning College in Frettnin Forest? And what is so brilliant about having Uncle Bigbad as a teacher? Is it all because Dad went to Brutal Hall and they made him a prefect and he got a silver BAD badge when he left? I bet it is.

There is another four days’ walk, maybe more to Frettnin Forest. Let me come back and learn to be bad at home.

PLEE-EE-EEZ!!!

Your number 1 cub,

By Lonesome Lake

Day 1 – night-time