Penguin - Polly Dunbar

On a recent trip to our local library, I was a little disappointed that I couldn't seem to find any books that my daughter hadn't borrowed in the past. We decided to settle for some stories that we hadn't heard of. One of them stories was a book called penguin which was written by Polly Dunbar. The cover of the book was pretty basic to be honest; it shows a picture of a pretty basic penguin with the title above it. Usually the cover of the book entices my daughter into wanting to read it but as I mentioned before we didn't have much to choose from. I wasn't very hopeful on this one. The story is about a little boy ...  Read the complete review

This book is simply titled, Penguin. The cover is white and has a picture of a funny looking penguin and above this is the title in nice bright patterned lettering. The back cover is also white and has a picture of Ben, the small boy in the story holding his penguin and a short paragraph about the book. The story starts with Ben opening his present, it was a penguin. Ben said hello to him. He asked the penguin what they should play, Penguin said nothing, Ben asked him if he could talk but penguin still said nothing. Ben then tickled penguin but he did not laugh, he pulled a funny face but penguin still did not laugh. Then Ben put on a silly hat, sang a silly ...  Read the complete review