penguins

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to penguins, where they live, what they eat, and efforts to protect them from extinction.

Discusses the different types of penguins, such as macaroni, emperor, Humboldt, Galapagos, Gentoo, and Fiordland, and covers how they eat, protect their young, maneuver through water and across ice, and survive the cold.

Teased in school for being pink, Patrick the penguin leaves the South Pole to live with the flamingos in Africa.

Discusses the habitat, behaviors, eating habits, and lifecycles of penguins in Antarctica.

Leonardo, a small penguin, has dreams of being able to fly, and he is not happy until his dream comes true, when Otto the albatross takes him for a ride in a flying machine.

Tired of being surrounded by a family who cuddles him and wishing only to live alone, Dudley Penguin waddles away from home and encounters something even worse than an affectionate family.

Uses a story of penguins in Antarctica to demonstrate how their environment is threatened by the pollution from man's presence.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, life cycle, habitat, and various groups of penguins, flightless birds found only south of the equator.

While recuperating from the mumps at the zoo keeper's home, a penguin meets a strange animal called a vacuum cleaner.

Hector the Penguin is captured and forced to live in a zoo where he falls in love with another penguin named Christina.