TITLE: Little Penguin's Tale
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: Audrey Wood
GENRE: Animal Adventures
THEME: Extended Family
AWARDS: None
CHARACTERS: Little Penguin, Grannanny Penguin
PUBLISHING DATE AND COMPANY: This book was published by Scholastic in 1989.
SUMMARY: This book is narrated by a grandmother penguin talking to all the little penguins. She tells a story about how the little penguin goes off wandering away from home, and that he could get lost. He doesn't get lost, but does find some dancing birds, and is surprised by them because he had never seen anything like it before, so he danced with them. Then he went and did some crazy acting with a walrus. Then on his way back home he gets eaten by a whale; or at least that is what the grandma penguin tells the little penguins at first. But then she said that he really did make it home safe, just without all of his tail feathers because the whale ate some of them.
This book would be good to read in a younger elementary school classroom, because it teaches about listening to your elders. It also teaches that just because something looks fun, the adults may be telling you not to do it for a reason (like you may end up loosing some of your tail feathers).
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