My Season with Penguins
Author | : Sophie Webb |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780395922910 |
ISBN-13 | : 0395922917 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: What is it like to live in a tiny polar haven for two months? To paint penguins outdoors in freezing weather? To be flipper-slapped by a bird whose wings are powerful enough to propel it swiftly through frigid waters? To look into the oddly expressive eyes of a penguin chick? With charming watercolors and intriguing journal entries, this book inspires our curiosity. Sophie Webb gives readers a vivid, frank, firsthand account of what it is like to spend a season in a land not yet affected by people, yet populated for centuries by true dwellers of the Antarctic -- the fearless, round-bellied, pink-footed, gliding, diving, utterly adept Adélie penguins.