Collects "Penguins and Antarctica" and "Eve of the Emperor Penguin" in which Jack and his younger sister Annie continue to help Merlin the magician search for the secret of happiness by traveling in their magic treehouse to Antarctica, a wasteland where the penguins may know what to do.
Riley accompanies Uncle Max, Aunt Martha, and Cousin Aliceto Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, to investigate whether rising ocean temperatures have affected the diet of penguins. Includes facts on different kinds of penguins throughout.
Tells the story of the shipwreck of the "Endurance" in a sea of ice en route to Antarctica, and the amazing survival of all twenty-eight members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton.
The reader is taken through a penguin year, from the summer months of light when the Ade?ie penguins migrate to the Antarctic coasts to breed, to the dark winter when the penguins return to the sea.
Provides facts about Antarctica, highlighting some of the continent's amazing natural features, plants, animals, and people, and including photographs, maps, and a time line.
