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From hatching and feeding to rearing and courting, the everyday adventures of emperor penguins come vividly to life in this unique collection of jovial verse. Young readers will identify with the challenges of childhood these feathered creatures face: waiting to be fed, searching for their mothers, or swimming for the first time.
Judy Sierra, author of the well-loved picture books Counting Crocodiles and The House That Drac Built, delights young readers again, this time paying poetic tribute to the distinguished-yet-waddling emperor penguin of icy Antarctica. Comical, cartoonish paintings by accomplished illustrators (and penguin lovers) Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey combined with Sierra’s lively poems will have your favorite kids
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I realize at the age of 14, I should probably be looking for books at a higher reading level. But I’m crazy about Penguins, so the book Antarctic Antics caught my eye. Though the actual poetry is a bit juvenile sounding, it’s acually very educational and intertaining. Plus the pictures are ADORABLE! This is an excellent book, and my kid sister agrees!
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An adult friend recommended this book to me (also an adult), figuring that I’d enjoy anything containing a poem titled “Regurgitate.” She was right, and I found the rest of the book well-written and well-crafted, full of similar humor and the kind of realism-in-viewpoint that is sometimes (too often) lacking in books that feature animals. The illustrations are also excellent. I’m told that children do enjoy this book, but it’s also captivated many of my adult friends … including one woman to whom I presented a copy for her 55th birthday. Quality shines through any good work, and that’s definitely true of “Antarctic Antics.”
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First of all, I love this book because I love penguins. However, as a piece of children’s literature, it’s so much more. This is an excellent example of how literature (poetry) and science can go hand and hand. There are some poems in this book that seem written just for fun, (e.g. “Be My Penguin”). However, most of the poems in this book are written about and around actual behaviors that penguins exhibit: from regurgiating their food to feed the young (“Regurgitate”) to the motherly instincts of father penguins (“A Hatchling’s Song” and “My Father’s Feet”) to poetic riddles about penguin predators (sea lion, killer whale). The book is charming, easy to read, and full of delightful penguin illustrations. A great gift for any child interesting in science or literature or anyone who (like me) just loves penguins.
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