The Big Bad Badgers
Author: Megan McDonald
Illustrator: Peter H. Reynolds
Book 14 in the Stink series
Pages: 160
Published: 2025
Age: 6+
A-roo-ga-roo! Stink and his friends can’t wait to learn wilderness survival skills. But first the pack of friends will have to survive scouting . . . and one another!
Brushing your teeth with a stick! Pooping in the woods! Stink and his friends are raring to learn all that and more in Survival Scouts. Wait! What? Survival Scouts is for boys only? No fair!
So with Riley Rottenberger (aka the Great Golu) at the helm, Stink and his friends decide to form their own troop of nature explorers: the Big Bad Badgers. There will be badges to earn, climbing-up ceremonies, and awards to win. But never did these squabbling scouts imagine survival would be much harder than tying knots, reading animal tracks and scats, or even eating an insect. Ack! The Golden Honey Badger Award is starting to feel like an impossible dream to this pack of (bickering) badgers! What do they have to do to earn the coveted prize?
Fans of wild backyard nature hunts—and champions of cooperation—will be hot on the trail of this quintessential Stink adventure, with fun extras at the end of each chapter. Cricket pancakes, anyone?
About the Stink Series
Books in series order
- 1.Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid(2005)
- 2.Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker(2006)
- 3.Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers(2007)
- 4.Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express(2008)
- 5.Stink: Solar System Superhero(2010)
- 6.Stink and the Ultimate Thumb-Wrestling Smackdown(2011)
- 7.Stink and the Midnight Zombie Walk(2012)
- 8.Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout(2013)
- 9.Stink and the Shark Sleepover(2014)
- 10.Stink and the Attack of the Slime Mold(2016)
- 11.Stink: Hamlet and Cheese(2018)
- 12.Stink and the Hairy, Scary Spider(2020)
- 13.Stink: Superhero Superfan(2023)
- 14.The Big Bad Badgers(2025)
Reading age: 6+ years
In honor of Judy Moody's younger "bother," the creators of the award-winning series have put themselves in a very Stink-y mood.
In Stink Moody's very own spin-off series, his special style comes through loud and strong – enhanced by a series of comic strips, drawn by Stink himself, which are sprinkled throughout the book. These very funny, homespun sagas reflect the familiar voice of a kid who pictures himself with super powers to deal with the travails of everyday life – including the occasional teasing of a bossy big sister!