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Author | : Lindsay McCrae |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0062971387 |
A "remarkable memoir" (Nature) of life with an emperor penguin colony, gorgeously illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony’s astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth—and of the extraordinary human experience of living amongst them in the planet’s harshest environment. A miracle occurs each winter in Antarctica. As temperatures plummet 60° below zero and the sea around the remote southern continent freezes, emperors—the largest of all penguins—begin marching up to 100 miles over solid ice to reach their breeding grounds. They are the only animals to breed in the depths of this, the worst winter on the planet; and in an unusual role reversal, the males incubate the eggs, fasting for over 100 days to ensure they introduce their chicks safely into their new frozen world. My Penguin Year recounts McCrae's remarkable adventure to the end of the Earth. He observed every aspect of a breeding emperor's life, facing the inevitable sacrifices that came with living his childhood dream, and grappling with the personal obstacles that, being over 15,000km away from the comforts of home, almost proved too much. Out of that experience, he has written an unprecedented portrait of Antarctica’s most extraordinary residents.
Author | : Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : Gifts |
ISBN | : 9780763657307 |
When a boy finally gets exactly what he wants from Santa, he learns that owning a real penguin may not have been a good idea after all.
Author | : Richard Atwater |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2011-12-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453227865 |
Mr. Popper and his family have penguins in the fridge and an ice rink in the basement in this hilarious Newbery Honor book that inspired the hit movie! How many penguins in the house is too many? Mr. Popper is a humble house painter living in Stillwater who dreams of faraway places like the South Pole. When an explorer responds to his letter by sending him a penguin named Captain Cook, Mr. Popper and his family’s lives change forever. Soon one penguin becomes twelve, and the Poppers must set out on their own adventure to preserve their home. First published in 1938, Mr. Popper’s Penguins is a classic tale that has enchanted young readers for generations. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Richard and Florence Atwater including rare photos from the authors’ estate.
Author | : Florence Minor |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2008-12-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061130974 |
If you were a penguin . . . You could swim really fast and toboggan on ice. Sing a happy duet, once or twice. You could live on land but dive under the sea. There's a lot penguins can do, just like you and me! Wendell and Florence Minor create a charming tribute to all the playful fun and activity that comes with being a penguin—which young readers can delight in too!
Author | : Sandra Boynton |
Publisher | : Workman Publishing |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2006-09-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0761143726 |
Your Personal Penguin is an irrepressible, read-aloud, listen-along favorite for young children and the grown-ups who read to them. Fun to hold, the book tells the story of a slightly bewildered hippo and the loyal penguin who wants nothing more than to be his pal: Now, lots of other penguins seem to be fine in a universe of nothing but ice. But if I could be yours, and you could be mine, Our cozy little world would be twice as nice. I want to be Your Personal Penguin. The original song "Your Personal Penguin," sung by Davy Jones of The Monkees, is available for download.
Author | : Henry Eliot |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 1904 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0141990937 |
**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year** The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary connections and beautiful cover designs.
Author | : Ottessa Moshfegh |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525522131 |
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
Author | : Rebekah Nathan |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2006-07-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780143037477 |
After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior—eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions—made her feel as if she were dealing with a completely foreign culture. So Nathan decided to do what anthropologists do when confused by a different culture: Go live with them. She enrolled as a freshman, moved into the dorm, ate in the dining hall, and took a full load of courses. And she came to understand that being a student is a pretty difficult job, too. Her discoveries about contemporary undergraduate culture are surprising and her observations are invaluable, making My Freshman Year essential reading for students, parents, faculty, and anyone interested in educational policy.
Author | : Fiona Watt |
Publisher | : Usborne Books |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Board books |
ISBN | : 9780746085509 |
This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.
Author | : Judy Wong |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2015-02-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1490755020 |
Whats the difference between a King and an Emperor Penguin? Are all penguins snowbound? Did you know that all penguins are naturally from the southern half of the world? This book contains answers to these questions and other fun facts along with full color photographs of all 17 species of penguins (and some of their predators). Meet the penguins of the world and learn how you can help save their habitat from destruction.