Will you be led by the immediate gratification that some choices bring or stand by your values and be guided by always doing the right thing, being kind, generous and compassionate? Who do you want to be? The Bad Guys series offers a satirical take on all these questions but none the less providing kids with an opportunity to reflect on their choices in their own world. The main theme of The Bad Guys series is the good verse evil conundrum, redemption and the constant inner struggle when faced with life’s choices. There are four books in the series and you can buy them as a set or make the mistake we did of buying them separately and having an agonising wait while we found book 4. Your child will find these funny and heartwarming with just enough suspense to keep them interested! The struggle to be good is ongoing throughout the book and it is this good verse evil type banter that makes this book so appealing and relevant to the 6-9 age group. Their first mission, as determined by the wolf, is to rescue 200 puppies from the city pound. They have always been bad guys, look like bad guys, smell like bad guys and general were bad guys but now they want to turn their lives around. The main characters are a wolf, a shark, a snake and a piranha. The book is about Bad Guys who aren’t that bad at all. The books were recommended to him by a girl in his class and we picked up our copies at a school scholastic fair, though you can find them at any good bookstores the book depository or even Kmart.īay Guys is the genius creation of Aaron Blabey, providing a perfect balance between writing and images so that little early reading eyes and minds don’t get overwhelmed by the prospect of trying to finish a big chapter book. According to my 7 year old, The Bad Guys series of books is so good that after never reading a single book, (other than readers and books I read him), he went ahead and read the Bad Guy 3 books we could get a hold of, in the space of two days.

The bad guys book series in order