Penguin books for Penguin Awareness Day
It's Penguin Awareness Day, so, we've put together a booklist full of books about penguins, so you can get to know more about the flightless birds and love everything they're about.
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Lost and Found
Author: Oliver Jeffers
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Interest age: 3-5
Once there was a sad, lonely penguin who appeared at the door of a young boy. The boy decided he must be lost, so he set off to find his home.
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Penguin
Author: Polly Dunbar
Publisher: Walker Books
Interest age: 2+
Reading age: 5+Polly Dunbar's illustrations are gorgeous and her palette stylish - from the endearing Ben's rosy cheeks to the magnificent turquoise lion who eats him up.
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And Tango Makes Three
Author: Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell Illustrator: Henry Cole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Children's Books
Interest age: 3+
Reading age: 5+Roy and Silo are two boy penguins who live in the zoo in New York's Central Park. This is a really delightful story and the message behind it is subtle. It's a true story, and you can learn more about it in a note at the end.
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Me
Author: Emma Dodd
Publisher: Templar
Interest age: 2+
Reading age: 5+A baby penguin realises how small he is and on each page he compares himself to the world around him.
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Monday
Author: Anne Herbauts
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Interest age: 1+
Reading age: 5+Monday is a penguin who likes to stay warm. When winter comes, Monday's house is blown away in a snowstorm, and his friends go in search of him.
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Penguin and Pinecone
Author: Salina Yoon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Interest age: 2+
Reading age: 5+Penguin would like to keep the pinecone he finds, but soon realises that it was lost and isn’t happy in the snowy land in which he lives.
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Penguin in Peril
Author: Helen Hancocks
Publisher: Templar
Interest age: 3+
Reading age: 4+Penguin hatches an escape plan to avoid becoming dinner for a group of cats, who have kidnapped him from the zoo.
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The Not-So-Perfect-Penguin
Author: Steve Smallman
Publisher: QED
Interest age: 2+
Reading age: 6+Big, lively illustrations and a simple message make this book ideal for classroom circle times. Points for discussion are included at the back.
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Penguin Problems
Author: Jory John Illustrator: Lane Smith
Publisher: Walker Books
Interest age: 3-6
Reading age: 5-7A little penguin is out in the cold, and he doesn’t like it: the sun is too bright, the ocean is too salty, and he’s tired of whales and orcas trying to hunt him. A sweet and tongue-in-cheek story about remembering all the good things in our lives.
