![]() ![]() Having enjoyed a number of Deborah Underwood's other picture-books, from The Quiet Book and its sequels to Interstellar Cinderella, I picked up The Panda Problem with a feeling of anticipation. But when he ends up in a jam, he appeals to her to get him back to his bamboo grove. Seizing control of the story, he takes it in a direction the narrator doesn't expect. Finally he decides that she, the narrator, must be the one with the problem, and that that problem is him. ![]() No matter how much she questions him, the panda can't think of any issue. When the narrator of this new meta-fictional picture-book from author Deborah Underwood begins to spin a tale of a panda bear with a problem, the subject of her story blithely insist he doesn't have any kind of problem. ![]()
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