Panda Panic - Running Wild
Written by Jamie Rix
Narrated by Jack Hawkins
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
At long last, irrepressible panda cub, Ping, is leaving the safety of his nature reserve to embark on a journey of a lifetime! The second hilarious Panda Panic story in the fantastic new Awesome Animals series - awesome adventures with the wildest wildlife, from award-winning authors.
Ping the panda lives with his mum and twin sister on the Wolong nature reserve in China. Although his name means ‘peaceful‘ he’s anything but! Ping craves adventure and excitement but unfortunately he is a panda… and pandas do pretty much nothing except eat bamboo.
But when Ping gets swept off down the river, he at last finds the adventure he’s been waiting for. Will Ping and his new friend Little Bear enjoy their freedom, or will the shadows, and the bandits, and the lurking snow leopards have them running for home-sweet-home?
Jamie Rix
Jamie Rix is a children’s author, an animation writer and director, and a producer of television comedy. Jamie has published over forty titles, ranging from picture books and first readers to novels and books of short stories. He is married and has two grown up children. Jamie and his wife live in South London with a boxer dog and two foxes under their garden shed.
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Reviews for Panda Panic - Running Wild
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A very clever short novella, chilling and disturbing. I read it one sitting. I cannot possibly give away this beautiful Hutchinson 1st edition with illustrations by Janet Woolley, 1988.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The camera leaves the gatehouse and sets off along The Avenue, the tree-lined central drive of the estate. The handsome mansions sit above their ample front lawns, separated from each other by screens of ornamental shrubs and dry-stone walls. The light is flat but remarkably even, a consequence of the generous zoning densities (approx. two acres per house) and the absence of those cheap silver firs which cast their bleak shadows across the mock-Tudor facades of so many executive estates in the Thames Valley. As well, though, there is an antiseptic quality about Pangbourne Village, as if these company directors, financiers and television tycoons have succeeded in ridding their private Parnassus of every strain of dirt and untidiness. Here, even the drifting leaves look as if they have too much freedom. Thirteen children once lived in these houses, but it is hard to visualize them at play. The murders and kidnappings that take place an exclusive gated estate in the commuter belt of Southern England stun the whole country. When police psychiatrist Dr. Richard Greville starts investigating the mysterious murders and kidnappings at the Pangbourne Village estate, he realises that the policeman who shows him round the estate has a bizarre theory about what happened that morning, and slowly comes to agree with him. Neither of them, however, is keen to push this unpopular theory too strongly as the authorities appear willfully blind in their refusal to countenance it, ignoring even the strongest evidence pointing towards it such as the link between Mark Sanger's hobby of making box-kites and the strange contraption used to murder one of the security guards. This unnerving novella is probably even more relevant now than when it was written, with helicopter parents filling every minute of their children's time with school-work and improving hobbies, too afraid to let them out of the house on their own.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting but too short, when the end comes it does feel a little "Is that it?". Quite prescient with the rise in school shootings etc but not meaty enough to really satisfy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Read this today riding back from Chicago. There are nods to both the procedural form as well as a fairy tale. There is a massacare of all the adults at a gated community outside of Reading. All of the children are missing. A psychologist from the Home Office investigates the murder/kidnapping and explores the estate, itself a community of isolated sanity. The protagonist later concludes that within such, "madness is the only freedom." Ballard succeeds again in casting an eerie hue on the mechanisms of our civilization. Almsot 20 years old Running Wild anticipates the schism between the (virtual) hyperconnections of our lives and the physical barriers we erect for safety and integrity.
Running Wild is likely now to change anyone's life but it remains a sage cautionary tale, being germane to ongoing efforts at exclusivity. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sometimes feels a little slap-dash. Very interesting premise. Reminds me some of The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I really love JG Ballard sometimes, but this one is one of his weaker efforts. Its "surprise" ending is predictable from reading the jacket blurb alone.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A quick read. The concept is interesting. I'm not sure if the twist was supposed to actually be a twist or not - my guess is no. I don't think the point of the book is the "surprise;" I think the point is the idea behind it. That the environment would inevitably produce this outcome, but that society was not prepared to deal with that and of course cannot accept it - and the same things may(will) continue to happen.The format was also outstanding.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome book, had me hooked from the first page and was hard for me to put down. I just love how the story built up into a climax. However, i do admit that I suspected after a few pages into the book that the children were guilty.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Its a familiar Ballard theme, but its short and sharp and well worth a read.