Well Done, Mommy Penguin
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
With his vibrant, stylish art and spot-on visual storytelling, Chris Haughton turns to Antarctica for an irresistible ode to family bonds and awesome moms. “She’ll be back soon, won’t she?” “She sure will,” says Daddy Penguin. The sky may be dark over icy waters, but Mommy Penguin is off to catch some fish for dinner. As Daddy and Little Penguin watch in suspense, Mommy swims, jumps, and climbs up a slippery slope, barely avoiding a plunge back into the sea. Well done! There's just one more hurdle to overcome, past some grumpy, just-awakened seals, before she returns to her anxiously waiting family. With a nod to the fascinating nature of penguin parenting, this boldly illustrated adventure from the creator of Little Owl Lost and Oh No, George! will have little ones happily on the edge of their seats as they root for Mommy Penguin.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
No challenge is too great for the indomitable mother penguin that stars in Haughton's latest color-saturated work, a comic tribute to motherhood's never-ending labor. While Daddy Penguin and Little Penguin watch, Mommy Penguin navigates a bona fide obstacle course as she hunts for the family's food—swimming, jumping ashore, and climbing a snowy hill—receiving with each success the titular refrain, "Well done, Mommy Penguin!" Meanwhile, the youth impatiently waits, repeating questions: "And she'll be back, won't she?" After an attempt to sneak past sleeping seals (in a fan-familiar "tiptoe/ tiptoe/ tiptoe" moment), a surprise temporarily sets the magenta and indigo bird back, but as wry narration declares, "Nothing's going to stop Mommy Penguin," and it's soon mission accomplished—at least temporarily. Haughton's bold and blocky aesthetic brightly captures the exhausting and frenetic hustle of getting food into little bellies. Ages 3–7.
