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Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana audiobook

  • By: James Dean
  • Narrator: Lewis Grosso
  • Category: Animals, Cats, Juvenile Fiction
  • Length: 4 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: September 30, 2014
  • Language: English
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Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana Audiobook Summary

New York Times bestselling author and artist James Dean brings readers along for a hilarious ride with Pete the Cat!

Pete the Cat bites into a bad banana and decides that he never, ever wants to eat another banana again. But Pete really likes bananas! Will a rotten bite ruin Pete’s love for this tasty fruit?

Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana is a My First I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for shared reading with a child.

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Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana Audiobook Narrator

Lewis Grosso is the narrator of Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana audiobook that was written by James Dean

James Dean is the original creator and illustrator of Pete the Cat. He is a self-taught artist originally from Fort Payne, Alabama. His passion for drawing became apparent at a young age, and as a child, you could find James drawing his favorite characters like Snoopy and Yogi Bear. 

James earned his degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University and went on to work for Georgia Power for a number of years. Eventually, he was called to pursue his art full-time and began selling his work at art festivals around the Southeast. 

It was during this time that he began creating paintings and drawing of his cat, Pete. The little blue cat showed up as a character in James’s artwork around 1999 and has been a permanent fixture ever since. 

James Dean’s art has been sold in more than ninety galleries and shops across the United States. He has devoted his paintings to Pete the Cat for fifteen years and turned his natural love for cats into his life’s work. James published his first book, The Misadventures of Pete the Cat, a history of his artwork, in 2006, and he illustrated his first self-published children’s book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, in 2008. There are now almost 100 published Pete the Cat titles with more coming out all the time.

James is humbled every day by the success that this groovy blue cat has brought him. He says positively affecting children’s lives is his number one priority, and he is grateful to have such an amazing audience to work for. 

About the Author(s) of Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana

James Dean is the author of Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana

Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana Full Details

Narrator Lewis Grosso
Length 4 minutes
Author James Dean
Category
Publisher HarperCollins
Release date September 30, 2014
ISBN 9780062329400

Subjects

The publisher of the Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana is HarperCollins. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Animals, Cats, Juvenile Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana is HarperCollins. The imprint is HarperCollins. It is supplied by HarperCollins. The ISBN-13 is 9780062329400.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Jon

June 24, 2018

Thank you Pete! Bad bananas have been getting away with being bad for much too long! Great book even if it is about bad bananas!

Crissy

January 23, 2016

Poor Pete has a favorite food that didn't agree with him one day. We have all had times when we ate something we really love to only have some sort of issue. What can you do? Do you turn clear away from that food, do you give it a second chance, or find a new favorite. See what Pete goes through as he learns about his favorite food.

Nicole

December 30, 2015

Well a bad banana could ruin your day too. But Pete's mom doesn't give up and keeps trying to make her son happy. It's funny and cute what this mother does to try to make her son happy. I love that the mother is a strong figure in this book as a lot of the books she comes in for a moment and then is gone again. But this one she is there again helping Pete as he struggles with something.

Leigh Ann

April 05, 2018

A cute story with colorful pictures that encourages nutritious eating. It also teaches children that eating food that has gone bad is not good for you. A fun story overall that encourages a healthy lifestyle.

Anna Marie

January 13, 2018

Pete learns the importance of not making snap decisions.

Sheila

March 08, 2020

Pete the Cat loves bananas but he gets a bad one and refuses to eat any more until the day of his big marathon race. He then learns to love them again.I enjoy Pete the Cat. He is funny. He knows what he likes and will not accept anything less. He has to relearn to trust again.

donna

September 22, 2019

We've all been there. We get sick from eating or drinking something and we never want it again.Pete deals with this like we all do: HARD PASS.But then he finally realizes maybe a bad banana is just one bad banana, and he shouldn't sacrifice his favorite food over one tummy ache. We could learn a lot from Pete.

Seth

July 18, 2018

I love Pete the Cat. He's such a good, wholesome, character and I LOVE reading his stories and watching his videos with kids. It's any easy and fun way to connect with them!

Grace

May 10, 2020

No help needed: banana, sandwich, favorite, sour, juicy, breakfast, healthy, monkeyHelp needed: cereal

Hailey

September 18, 2018

n James Deans "Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana", Pete shows us his love for bananas, until he finds a banana that doesn't taste very good. After eating the bad banana, he refuses to eat anything his mom puts in front of him. Pete won't eat his favorite banana bread, banana cream pie, as well as a banana split. Pete tries other foods to find something that will make up for the bananas he will no longer eat, but nothing seems to hit the spot. At the end of the story, Pete goes to run in a race, but usually eats a banana before he runs. He sees his friend Greg the Monkey eating banana and seems to get a little jealous. Finally, Pete is brave enough to try bananas again. Greg gives Pete a banana, and he ends up winning the race. I like to look at this story as if I am Pete. I have been in a similar situation as Pete. It isn't fun eating one of your favorite foods and being so disappointed it makes you never want to eat it again. I love how James Dean, tells this story through realistic events. It gives the feel of being in the story or comparing the story to your own life events. Knowing now where James Dean gets his story ideas, I wonder what his pet cat really did to give him this idea. This story teaches a lesson to young kids when they eat something they may not like. Although Pete took a while to try bananas again, he teaches that it IS okay so try something you may not have liked in the past. Things change, and people change.

Angie

March 11, 2016

Synopsis: "Join Pete the Cat in New York Times bestselling author James Dean's I Can Read! beginning reader Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana. In this hilarious new title, Pete the Cat bites into a bad banana and decides that he never, ever wants to eat bananas again. But Pete really likes bananas! Will a rotten bite ruin Pete's love for this tasty fruit?Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana is a My First I Can Read! book, which means it's perfect for shared reading with a child. Fans of Pete the Cat will delight in this I Can Read! tale featuring the grooviest cat, Pete!"My Review: This was a great beginning reader book for those Pete the Cat lovers that are ready to move up in reading. It has simple sentences with familiar words. It also has a great story about trying something again after it didn't taste good one time. It is definitely a fun book that uses the familiar character to teach about flavors and compare different foods.

Amanda

November 17, 2016

Pete ate a bad banana. I thought my toddler would learn that sometimes the food might not always taste good and she would try some foods again... we wound up not eating bananas for a week.Turns out my child likes bananas as much as Pete does and we still read this book frequently and are eating bananas again.

C. John

March 28, 2022

A cute little book that is perfect for the child in your family who isn't really reading yet. This tells what happens when Pete the Cat eats a banana that has gone bad. It is a tale simply but effectively told, and the large pictures give the child something to look at while you are reading it to them. All in all a nice book

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