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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Spend a day in the life of an Adélie penguin with this fantastic new series from Sandra Markle, the bestselling author of the What If You Had... series! What if you could spend a day with your favorite animals? What would you eat? How would you play? Would you ever want to leave? Dive in and learn all about Adélie penguins in the second book in the Could You Ever... series! From what they eat, to where they live, to how they interact with one another,...
Author
Series
Tacky the penguin books volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While awaiting a visit from the Emperor, a group of penguins fail to recognize their friend Tacky in the Emperor's clothes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Neon Squid
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Join penguin expert Dr. Michelle LaRue as she explains why emperor penguins like marching and how we've spotted their poop from space! Filled with simple science and plenty of facts, it's a perfect book to inspire the next generation of zoologists."--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A "remarkable memoir" (Nature) of life with an emperor penguin colony, gorgeously illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography.
For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth--and of the extraordinary human experience of living amongst them...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This heartwarming picture book tells the true story of João Pereira de Souza, who found a Magellanic penguin covered in oil and starving near his home on an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. João spent a week cleaning the creature's tarred feathers and feeding him a daily diet of fish before taking him back to the sea to let him go. But the penguin wouldn't leave! He stayed with João for eleven months until finally disappearing. Now, every...
15) Penguin journey
Author
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text follow a colony of Emperor penguins as they emerge from the sea, find mates, care for their eggs, and are reunited when chicks have hatched. Includes author's note about Emperor penguins and challenges threatening the species.
17) Pen pal
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Tony Baloney and his school are celebrating pen pal month! Big Sister Baloney says her pen pal is always a friend for life. Tony Baloney hopes his pen pal will be a friend for life, too!"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tony Baloney wants to stand out from the crowd during his school's Halloween parade, but he has to make sure to keep his costume intact until then.
20) The king penguin
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
King penguin Percival is off to find subjects who will listen to him, as long as they do not eat him first.
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