Pitch
Bamboozled and bad-tempered birthday boy, Giant Panda, finds his favourite food missing from the menu. He can’t bear to eat anything else! If the patient waiter can’t pander to his whiny diner, there’ll be a giant problem.
For fans of I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato.
Story
[Giant Panda (a juvenile panda) wears a bamboo themed outfit, birthday hat and badge and is joined by friends and family in a fancy restaurant. The waiter, a fox, has a name badge which says, ‘Pierre’. All the characters are animals.]
Spread 1
Giant Panda loved bamboo, so for his birthday treat,
The only thing he asked for was as much as he could eat!
But when he said, ‘BAMBOO PLEASE!’ at the restaurant in town,
The last thing he expected…
Spread 2
[The waiter wears a name badge.]
was to see the waiter frown.
‘I’m sorry, sir,’ Pierre replied, ‘we’ve sold the final leaf.’
‘You’ve WHAT?!’ cried Giant Panda, with a look of disbelief.
‘Your birthday isn’t ruined though; I’ll find a dish for you.
I’m sure you’d love some…’
‘STOP RIGHT THERE! I’m off to find bamboo!’
Continued…