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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