A very polite and proper young boy goes to the aquarium with his father and comes home with a real penguin. He goes on many different adventures with his pet penguin. The illustrations show the interactions between him and his dad and his penguin while showing everything spoken inside of voice bu...
As a mom who tried to read this book to her five-year-old son, I did not like this book. The weird rhyming/non-rhyming text of this book is bad. As a former children's librarian, I deplored this book, because:1. Dropping off your child in the children's section of the library for a ten-minu...
Horn Book (Fall 2010)Tess, in time-out for her "beastie behavior" at the library, accidentally shakes free a T. Rex from a book's pages. The mischievous dino rampages through the library while Tess tries to control him ("Take care!...The books..."). This lesson about regaining self-control isn't ...