A BABY PENGUIN SEARCHES FOR HIS MOTHER. One day at the South Pole, a baby penguin hatches from an egg. "My name is Paddles," he peeps to a big penguin. "Are you my mom?" "I'm your dad," replies the big penguin. "Your mother has gone fishing." "I'll find her and tell her I'm here," Paddles says, and dives into the water. It's the start of a great adventure for the little penguin! Paddles travels from the South Pole to the North Pole and back again, searching for his mother. He isn't sure where he's going, and some things are scary. He meets a shark with big sharp teeth and a growling polar bear, who both want to eat him! But he escapes and keeps moving. He asks everyone he sees if they are his mother, but there's nobody who looks like himself. When Paddles tries to ride a roller coaster home, a ticket lady makes him get off--he has no ticket, of course. When he gets tired and sleepy, he finds a comfy bed in a frozen-food case at a grocery store. Finally, he travels as far north as he can go and meets an Eskimo boy with a dogsled, who explains that penguins do not live at the North Pole. The boy shows him how to go back home and puts him on an ice floe. But the farther south it floats, the warmer the ice becomes. Then the ice melts. NOW what is Paddles going to do?