Puffin Podcast: Mission Imagination

Join Humza and his sidekicks Ausra, Theo and Ayisha as they laugh their way through ridiculous facts, unbelievable stories and the silliest jokes!!

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Get ready for Mission Imagination – the new series of the Puffin Podcast. Each episode will whoosh you a way to a different magical world created by a fantastic Puffin author. Hosted by the hilarious Babatunde Aleshe, alongside two young Puffineers, there’ll be a new adventure for each week of the summer holidays...

Over the course of these two bonus episodes, Mission Imagination will whisk listeners away to two different magical worlds, each created by a fantastic Puffin author. Host Babatunde Aléshé is back with Puffineers Tylan and Darcey, exploring these fantastically wonderful worlds over the next two weeks. But as wondrous as these worlds may seem, we must stick to the rules or danger follows…What danger? Well, you’ll have to tune in to find out...

Humza and the gang dive under the sea to ask: How many hearts does an octopus have? Can dolphins really speak to each other?⁣ Plus the gang battles it out in the joke-off, creates the wildest story from the bottom of the ocean and Humza tells a tall tale about a suspicious jellyfish...⁣ Featuring an audiobook extract of ‘Cream Buns and Crime’ by Robin Stevens.

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Join Humza Arshad, author of the Little Badman books, host Babatúndé Aléshé and the Puffineers for an outer-space adventure. Get ready to travel to planets with endless games of cricket, zoom past a spy headquarters and meet ninja-rapper-gangsters. But take care, because if someone breaks the rule you might disturb the green-one-eyed monsters and scariest of all - the army of Aunty-bots.

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Humza, Ausra, Theo and Ayisha head into the Animal Kingdom to ask: Can elephants jump? Are birds dinosaurs? They laugh their way around the best animal impressions, the silliest jokes and facts, plus Humza challenges the gang to work out if his tiger at the zoo story is true or false!Featuring an audiobook extract of ‘Charlie Morphs into a Mammoth’ by Sam Copeland.

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Jen Carney, author and illustrator of The Accidental Diary of B.U.G, takes Babatúndé Aléshé and the Puffineers on a journey to Biscuitville - a world made entirely of biscuits! Imagine buildings made entirely of biscuits, trees growing chocolate chip cookies and the wheels on all vehicles made of… you’ve guessed it… Wagon Wheels! But beware, all is not as it seems. This tasty world takes a turn for the worst when one crucial rule is broken...

Humza and his sidekicks blast-off into space to work out: what would you say if you met an alien? How do astronauts go to the loo? And most importantly... who has the most out-of-this world joke?! Plus Theo, Ausra and Ayisha try to work out if Humza reealllly had a UFO encounter and the Story Generator game has a meteoric result! Featuring an audiobook extract of ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball’ by Jeff Kinney.

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Join Rashmi Sirdeshpande, author of How To Change The World and How To Be Extraordinary, host Babatúndé Aléshé and the Puffineers for a brilliant, bonkers, bubble adventure! Get ready to travel through the soapy suds to explore fairies that skateboard, ninja bunnies and chocolate smelling clouds in this wacky world. But the Puffineers must take care not to disturb these bunnies (who are warming up their ninja moves just in case!) or else chaos will unfold and danger will be sure to follow...

In this episode, our trio speak to Greg James and Chris Smith - the wonderful authors of The Great Dream Robbery. In this magical world of dreams, where anything is possible, there are parachuting cows, talking cats, and even spaghetti meatballs falling out of the sky...