Badger books by Moritz Petz illustrated by Amélie Jackowski

I will begin with The Bad Mood! Badger wakes up in a bad mood and he decides everyone needs to know he is feeling miserable. Along the way he meets many of his forest friends. His bad mood means he treats each of them with awful and angry words, bad manners and unkindness. Eventually his bad mood lifts but when he sets off to talk to his friends again he discovers they are all now in a bad mood. What can Badger do? 

Blackbird has the perfect solution. He flies off and tells everyone - "Party tonight! ... Everyone who is in a bad mood is invited. Come to the clearing at moonrise for a bad mood party."

At the party Badger is able to ask his friends to forgive him and then everyone has a happy evening.

In the second book poor Badger is having a dreadful day. Everything seems to be going wrong. His favourite cup is smashed, his pencils are missing, then he trips over his wheelbarrow.  Badger decides to visit his friends only to discover each of them is having a bad day too. Badger repairs Racoon's clothes line, he finds a lost ball for Stag, and he puts a bandage on a scratch for Squirrel. When Badger returns home he is in for a terrific surprise. Squirrel has repaired his broken cup, Stag has found the missing pencils and little Mouse has baked a fresh cake.

These books would be perfect to share with preschoolers aged 3+. 

Amélie Jackowski was born in Toulon, France. Her best-known picture book, The Bad Mood has been translated into over ten languages.

Moritz Petz is the pen name of Udo Weigelt. He was born in Germany and today lives in Switzerland. The Bad Mood! was originally published under the title Der Dachs hat heute schlechte Laune! in 2004. The Day everything went Wrong was originally titled Der Dachs hat heute einfach Pech in 2015.

I am also keen to see these two books by Udo Weigelt:

The third book in this series featuring Badger will be published early next year: