Xander the Panda
Story Quest – Stories for Kids
Fun Kids
4.2 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Xander the Panda: Xander the Panda, a famous bamboo kart racer, enters a new race that brings him face to face with his past.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. I'm Molly Oldfield and I'm the host of Everything Under the Sun, a podcast |
| 0:18.4 | answering all the most pressing questions children around the world have |
| 0:22.3 | about life on earth. Each week I answer three questions sent into me by children all over the |
| 0:28.7 | world and every week I have an expert to help me. I'd love you to have a listen and also read my new book, |
| 0:36.1 | Everything Under the Sun all around the world. |
| 0:38.7 | It's a collection of 366 children's questions answered by myself, |
| 0:43.9 | with the help of Stephen Frye, Sophie Dahl, Lauren Child, Darren Brown, Richard Curtis, Emma Freud, |
| 0:49.5 | Darcy Bustle, Michael Morpergo, the fish curators at the Natural History Museum, |
| 0:58.7 | and many, many more who help us answer some of the most curious questions out there. |
| 1:07.6 | It looks incredible too. It's been illustrated by 12 different artists living all over the world, so it's such a beautiful celebration of children's curiosity. |
| 1:11.3 | I think you're going to love it, so make sure you get a copy of everything under the sun all around the world now in all good bookshops and online. |
| 1:20.9 | This is StoryQuest. Today's story is |
| 1:24.6 | Zander the Panda. |
| 1:30.8 | Zander the Panda. Zanda the Panda wasn't like other pandas. |
| 1:34.3 | Other pandas ate bamboo, slept in bamboo, used bamboo toothbrushes and bamboo yoga mats, |
| 1:40.3 | but Zanda, he drove bamboo. |
| 1:43.7 | His pride and joy was the bamboo bullet, a race car woven from stork so strong and flexible |
| 1:50.3 | that it could survive speeds of 300 miles per hour and still taste delicious in a stir fry. |
| 1:57.3 | Its engine purred like a hungry tiger. |
| 2:00.8 | Its wheels were made from compressed bamboo shoots, |
| 2:04.1 | harder than diamonds and twice as squeaky. And tonight, Zander faced the race of his life. |
| 2:11.8 | The Grand Bamboo Pre. The Grand Bamboo Prey wasn't just any race, it was the most dangerous circuit on Earth. |
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