Penguin Day
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Spend the day with a little rockhopper penguin as it hops, swims, eats, and snuggles with its parents -- just like you do!Rockhopper penguins live by the sea, but in many ways their families are just like ours. Penguin parents take good care of their children. Mama penguin fishes for food, while papa stays home and watches the baby. But even little ones get tired of waiting for breakfast, and sometimes they wander off... Luckily, penguin parents always save the day!Sibert Medalist and naturalist Nic Bishop has traveled around the globe to photograph animals of all shapes and sizes. Following in the vein of his bestselling, award-winning book Red-Eyed Tree Frog, now Nic takes a close-up look at caring, and sometimes comical, penguin families.
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Wildlife photographer Bishop (Chasing Cheetahs) builds a story around a colony of rockhopper penguins in Antarctica, focusing on a chick and its parents (the photographs actually feature several penguin families, an endnote explains). Life is uncertain for both the chick and its mother, who treks with other adult penguins to the sea to catch food for their families. Orcas and sea lions threaten the safety of the mother penguin while, back home, a predatory skua swoops down on the baby: "But papa penguin saves the day! He frightens off the skua. Now baby penguin is safe." Concise sentences make the penguins' habits and threats readily discernible to even very young readers, and Bishop's photos, although sometimes awkwardly incorporated into the pages, offer a strikingly intimate look at these distinctive flightless birds, particularly as the adults take to the sea. Ages 4 8.
