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His highly acclaimed The Queen's Hat (the first instalment of the Queen Collection) was adapted into a musical concert by the London Symphony Orchestra and won the Evening Standard's Oscars Book Prize. While yes, please is a polite response, I think real life has most people saying yes, taking a doughnut, and then saying thank you. It's had fantastic reviews by The New York Times, School Library Journal, The Bookseller, Kirkus,and lots of blogs have featured it, including Buzzfeed and Huffington Post. Age 0-3 Mr Panda has some doughnuts to share and offers them to a series of ungrateful and greedy animals.
Please Mr Panda — Steve Antony Please Mr Panda — Steve Antony
Since his 2014 debut, Steve Antony has so far written and illustrated over 20 picture books, including the Mr Panda series, The Queen Collection, Unplugged, Green Lizards Vs Red Rectangles, Amazing and You Can. His Mr Panda series has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide and was recently optioned for TV by Magic Light Pictures. It's true that we often teach kids more manners than adults use (Louis CK had a comment about this . If they're not sufficiently polite in their response, he gets passive aggressive (and rude), turns his back on them, and says they can't have one! But the fact that he offered, and then reneged on the offer when the response didn't meet his own unknowable threshold for politeness, just makes him look rude.But one thing is for sure,Mr Panda always gets his point across - which is,if you want one of hisdoughnuts, you had better sayPLEASE!
Please, Mr. Panda - KIZCLUB Please, Mr. Panda - KIZCLUB
However, when I read through the story, my first impression was that it was just a jerk teasing other animals with doughnuts by offering them the doughnuts then denying them. It is only when Lemur remembers to say the magic word that Mr Panda is happy to share his tasty treats.and how, at least between this book's covers, those rude animals will get nothing except sorrow and bewilderment.