Not long ago I had a day when everything seemed to go wrong. The hose attacked my ankles and I fell over. The dishwasher dumped water all over my feet. A stack of books fell over onto my toes, which hurt a lot. On and on it went until I began to seriously consider climbing into bed and staying there for the rest of the day. At least in bed I would be safe!
Today's picture book is about a charming little badger character who has a bad day, a day full of little calamities.
The day everything went wrong
Today's picture book is about a charming little badger character who has a bad day, a day full of little calamities.
The day everything went wrong
Moritz Petz
Illustrated by Amelie Jackowski
Translated by David Henry Wilson
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
North South, 2015, 978-0-7358-4209-0
One morning Badger wakes up and he decides that today he
will only do “things I enjoy doing.” It is going to be his special day. As soon
as he gets out of bed he knocks over his bedside lamp, but thankfully it does
not break.
In the best of
moods Badger sits down to have his breakfast, which is when he knocks over his
cup and it falls to the floor and shatters. Badger is very upset because the
cup was his favorite one. Badger then decides that he wants to draw a picture,
but he can’t find his colored pencils anywhere. He cannot help feeling rather
upset that his day, which was going to be “such a treat” is going so wrong. Perhaps
he will be better off in his yard where he always has fun.
While Badger is
playing outside he trips and knocks over the wheelbarrow, cutting his knee in
the process. Dear me! Badger needs to do something to turn his rotten day into
one that is not so full of accidents, and so he heads off to find his friends.
Maybe if he leaves home his day will improve.
It turns out
that Badger is not the only one having a bad day. Raccoon’s clothesline has
broken, Stag has lost his ball, Squirrel has a scratch, Rabbit’s fishing line
is tangled, Fox’s front door is blocked, and Mouse cannot figure out how to
bake a cake. The bad day seems to be touching everyone in the forest.
Everyone has bad
days sometimes, days when nothing seems to go right and when one wishes one
could go back to bed. In this charming picture book we meet a badger who is
having just such a day and who does his best to turn a bad day into a good one.
Children who are having (or have had) a bad day of their own will really
appreciate why the animals in the story are so upset.
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