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1) Penguin Pete
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Pete the penguin has a good time playing on land with his fellow birds and learning how to swim in the sea.
Author
Series
Penguin (Salina Yoon) volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Penguin can't wait to celebrate Christmas with his family and friends. But when things don't go exactly as planned, Penguin learns to find holiday magic in the most unexpected places"--
3) Monkey Walk
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"At the zoo with her family, a girl mopes around until she is asked to help rescue the zoo's penguins from boredom"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: 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.
7) Vampenguin
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A young vampire trades places with a penguin at the zoo for a day of mischief and fun.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
A dragon finds an abandoned egg and lovingly raises the hatchling as her own, although Little One is very different from the baby dragons, and when disaster strikes it is the small, feathered hatchling that saves the day.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: A moving fable about friendship and belonging from award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek. Far away, near the South Pole, a blue penguin is born. It is not something you see every day. "I feel like a penguin," says Pingüino Azul. "But you're not like us," the others tell him. Pingüino Azul can't jump or dive very well, so the others wander off and leave him behind. In his loneliness, Pingüino Azul begins to dream, and he starts...
10) Waiting for mama
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: "When everyone is sleeping, all I can hear is Papa's heart. Boom-Boom-Boom. My papa loves me." It's deep winter in the Antarctic and a little penguin baby waits in the cold and snow for its mama to return from her long journey to find food. But all the while, the baby is protected and kept warm by its papa, until Mama returns with food . . . and love. With stunning illustrations and a spare but powerful story, Gianna Marino captures...
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
When Chilly's latest invention, the Good Bird, crashes into the penguins' home iceberg, it separates a chunk of ice and sends the penguins drifting out to sea. Can he invent a machine to get them home before a hungry orca nibbles the ice away?
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From their feathery wings to their wobbly walks, baby penguins are so cute! Discover more about these adorable animals with your own adorable little one. Filled with fun sound words and sweet photos, (human) babies will reach for Hello Baby Penguin! again and again"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Penguin solves his first mystery in this hilarious new I Can Read! adventure by Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups author Tadgh Bentley. For new readers who are fans of Mo Willems's Elephant and Piggie series and Adam Rubin's Dragons Love Tacos. Little Penguin has found something. But he's not sure what it could possibly be. Luckily, penguins are great detectives-and he and his friends are on the case! Will they be able to solve the mystery?
Author
Language
English
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Description
At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
15) Penguinaut!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orville is a little penguin who lives in a zoo and dreams of big adventures, like going to the Moon; the other animals are skeptical, but Orville is determined, so he builds a spaceship and sets out all by himself--and discovers that real adventures are best when they are shared with friends.
16) Chilly da Vinci
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: While others do “penguin” things, Chilly da Vinci—self-declared inventor penguin, builds machines that don’t work…yet! Chilly ties into the popular "maker" movement with humor and imagination. While others do “penguin” things, Chilly da Vinci—self-declared inventor penguin, builds machines that don’t work…yet!
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Albert! Did you eat the cake? No. It could not have been me. I was in the kitchen. Aha! That is where the cake was! Yes, I was in the kitchen, when the penguins got me...The almost unbelievable story of a missing cake, LOTS of hungry penguins and a crumb-covered little boy, who swears he's telling the truth. HE DID NOT EAT THE CAKE! Could his story really be true?"
Author
Series
Flora books (Molly Idle) volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In this wordless, lift-the-flap picture book, Flora and her new friend, the penguin, dance on the ice together and learn to treat each other with respect and kindness.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Kairós
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
When Dindim, a young penguin, finds himself stranded on a beach in Brazil, Joao rescues him and nurses him back to health. Thus begins this extraordinary friendship that motivates Dindim to swim thousands of kilometers every year to meet Joao and strengthen the unusual bond between a man and penguin. Inspired by a true story, this is a heartfelt celebration of the power friendship, the beauty of nature, and what it truly means to find your home.
20) Penguin in love
Author
Series
Penguin (Salina Yoon) volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
One day, Penguin goes looking for love and finds, instead, a mitten but as he tries to locate the mitten's owner, he knits his way through a blizzard to an unexpected meeting.
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