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K-Pax says ‘To understand animals, you have to live as an animal!’. Write a story about what you would do if you were turned into an animal. 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.

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Malcolm is a pretty fun character and I loved that he just wanted to know why he was alone in not liking animals, he kept pondering why everyone was loving it, yet he couldn't understand that love. He has written four novels: Time for Bed, Whatever Love Means, The Secret Purposes and The Death of Eli Gold. 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...

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A light and amusing read, Baddiel gives us an imaginative look at how cats climb and tortoises talk to each other - how Malcolm communicates cross-species is also cleverly done. Later on the book gets even more excited as a race against time starts and Malcolm has to ask all his friends to help him out.

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As a whole, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and can see it easily being a popular choice for children and could even provide some interesting discussion points. For further reading I would suggest the award winning: The Parent Agency by David Baddiel. Many thanks to the publishers for sending a review copy to The Bookbag. Famous works of art can be found in the illustrations, but the people have been replaced by gorillas. Can you identify the original pictures? Who painted them?All in all though, I really liked this book, and I can't wait to see what David Baddiel will think up next. I would recommend this book to everyone who is need for a funny, animaltastic, magical book. We started out taking it in turns to read this book aloud to one another and while my son instantly loved it, I was a little unsure. There are a number of footnotes which include funny anecdotes or explanations, and it makes for somewhat stilted reading. We then decided we would read the book quietly to ourselves instead to see if that was better in and it was. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - Mother, father, grandfather, big sister and little brother dance around the bed singing Happy Birthday. Malcolm anticipates the present of his dreams, “a FZY Apache 321, hi-def screen, 4.0 GHz processor speed laptop with quad speakers and Nahimic virtual surround sound”. What he gets is a chinchilla. Malcolm isn’t happy (“I don’t love him”). Traumatised by “the monkey moment” at the zoo when he was six (it involved poo), he just doesn’t get his family’s mad love for animals (as he sings in a number rhyming “very thorough” with “David Attenborough”). A school trip to Orwell Farm, an encounter with a Himalayan goat called K-Pax and... Enough! No spoilers! Not everyone has read the award-winning 2017 David Baddiel novel on which this cheery new musical (score by David Perkins) is based. Chapter five ends with a cliffhanger because Malcolm doesn’t know where his school trip will take him. Can you find cliffhangers in other stories? Can you use these as ideas for cliffhangers in your own stories?

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Each time Malcolm wakes up, he has to work out which animal he has turned into. Make a set of clues to help people identify different animals. Look at photos of different primates and draw your own pictures of some of them. You could also look at video footage of gorillas and other primates. For example: 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… Stewart designs apps. Could you design an app that would be number one in the App Store? What features would it have? Who might use it?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…

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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. Perform a reading of the story using expression to make it interesting to those listening. Use this video for inspiration: 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... Very funny, from the short-sighted teacher to the poor tortoises running after everyone else in mad dashes. Baddiel became a cabaret stand-up comedian after leaving university and also wrote sketches and jokes for various radio series. His first television appearance came in a bit-part on one episode of the showbiz satire, Filthy, Rich and Catflap. In 1988, he was introduced to Rob Newman, a comic impressionist, and the two became a writing partnership. They were subsequently paired up with the partnership of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis for a new topical comedy show for BBC Radio 1 called The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and its success led to a transfer to television, shooting Baddiel to fame.

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. About This Edition ISBN: Executive Publisher, Ann-Janine Murtagh. “David Baddiel has taken the children's book world by storm! He combines his incredible literary talent with audacious and original storytelling for kids which together with his high octane humour have made his books a massive hit with his growing band of young Baddiel fans. His latest novel is a testament to that - a hugely imaginative adventure with a Home Alone meets Animal Farm twist! We are truly delighted to have signed David for three more books which sets us up for brilliant publishing in the years ahead and is destined to make David Baddiel a major children's author brand in the future.” The path of the story is an obvious one, but I loved how Baddiel takes Malcolm through various incarnations and lives, and gets the whole farm involved in the final push to get him where he needs to end up. Malcolm transforms into different animals throughout the story. Can you make a list of similarities / differences between them all? And thus enter the animals, and the transformation. Most of the book take place on the farm, and we see Malcolm make friends, transform in another animal, find out about what happened to him, and also has a jolly good time as he discovers that being an animal can be quite fun and delightful. A whole world opens up to him, and I laughed quite hard that he had to keep repeating the story over and over again, and had to ask for witnesses (the animals he was previous with).