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 Penguin Small - Mick Inkpen
 Penguin Small - Mick Inkpen ... Hodder Children's BooksNewest Review: ... another confrontation with the polar bears they find themselves cast adrift as the ice they are standing on breaks off and ... more ... they float away. That is the start of their long journey which takes them first of all to a wonderful tropical island. Now at this point you would be thinking that the snowman might of melted but you have to take account of the fact that he is made from North Pole snow and apparently that never melts.
The island is full of wonderful creatures which they make up names for such as junglybirds, hootercrabs and neverwozanoceroses! (My daughters absolutely love these wonderful made up names!) On the island though, Pengu...more |
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Penguin Small - Mick Inkpen: Who said penguins can't fly! (763 words)
by - written on 12/05/09 (Very useful, 195 readings)
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I love everything to do with penguins so I guess that it's not altogether surprising that every time I see a children's book about penguins I have to buy it for my daughters. This is how we came about having Penguin Small in our collections, which is a delightful story book by Mick Inkpen. It's also a story which might go some way towards explaining why there are no penguins at the North Pole! It's quite a complicated little story though that takes our Penguin Small on a very long journey all the way from the North to the South Pole. Oh yes - there were once penguins at the North Pole (at least according to this book) but they were bullied by the polar bears ... Read the complete review
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