Panda Panic is about a panda named Ping, who lives in a special reserve in China. He finds life as a panda extremely boring, just eating bamboo and pooping all day. He wants some excitement, so when his friend, the bird named Hui, tells him that there is a panda exchange programme and the rangers are going to decide which panda to send abroad, he is super excited.

He writes letters to the pandas in the other countries to tell them about himself and makes himself sound very interesting so that they will choose him to visit. The pandas in the other countries write back, with funny stories which make them seem really important.

Ping tries to do lots of daft things to get noticed on his reserve, such as surfing, magic tricks, skiing and tossing the caber (like in Scotland), but they all end up in disaster and a trip to the vet for him.

At the end, it is not a panda from China which goes on exchange, but the pandas from the countries he has written to. So they all visit Ping's reserve! So he gets to meet the English, Australian, Spanish, Austrian, Scottish and Thai pandas. They all learn that being a normal panda is very exciting because they all have lots of imagination.

I liked this book because Ping tried lots of crazy things and it made me laugh.

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