Washoe County Library System

Pictures and rhyming text present some of the many extraordinary things penguins can do. Includes facts about penguins as well as related websites.

"During the first snowy day of winter, five little penguins bundle up and venture outside to play"--

Skipper checks the doors. Kowalski checks the engine. It's time to sit back, relax, and hit the skies! Who says that penguins can't fly?

Tacky the exuberant penguin accidentally goes sailboarding and winds up on a tropical island, where he meets an elephant who demands proof of Tacky's identity.

Little Penguin, who has the "soul of an eagle," enrolls in flight school.

In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest...

Discusses the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and life cycle of penguins.

Upon returning from his travels, Penguin Pete is captivated by a girl penguin with a blue beak, cultivates her friendship, and wins her flipper in marriage.