Pub Date: April 1, 2003
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 96041041
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 00 to 03
Physical Info: 0.14" H x 9.05" L x 11.00" W ( 0.36 lbs) 32 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | Humorous | Animals | Birds | Marine Life | Pets | Science and Nature | Zoology | Readers | Beginner | Social Topics | Friendship | Zoos | Concepts | Seasons
Description: Young readers are invited to dive, swim, and glide along with this delightful pack of penguins as they engage in wild, slip-sliding, rhyming fun in their icy world. Full color.
Brief description:
Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey have illustrated more than seventy popular children's books together.
Their widely acclaimed Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems, written by Judy Sierra, was featured
on National Public Radio, won a gold medal from the National Parenting Publications Awards, and was a
Publishers Weekly, Ingram, Borders, and Amazon.com bestseller. They are the illustrators of the Robert Kraus
classics Leo the Late Bloomer and Herman the Helper, which received a Boston Globe-Horn Book- Honor.
Mr. Aruego and Ms. Dewey both live in New York City.
Review Quotes:
"Delightful . . . Kids will love these high-energy, humorous poems. . . . A great addition to a story time."--Booklist
"A lighthearted spirit of fun and mischievousness prevails. . . . Whimsical . . . illustrations of cavorting penguins reinforce the playful mood of the verses."--School Library Journal