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Okay, I know what this book is trying to do. Blue Penguin is born a different color from all the other penguins. They question if he is even a real penguin. A penguin is born with a rare color mutation. Despite the fact that he does the same penguin things as everyone else in his colony, he is still an outcast. There's a magical and luminous quality to the icy landscapes dazzlingly rendered by Petr Horacek in this sublime story on the theme of insiders and outsiders Red Reading Hub Horacek's textured, colour-rich artwork creates dramatically beautiful Antarctic scenes while the little penguin is a charmer. Books for Keeps Petr Horacek's dreamy Blue Penguin [is] a nice enough story, but what really makes this book sing are Horacek's amazing illustrations, all ice and snow with occasional vivid sightings of an orange-coloured sun. The Independent on Sunday

Blue Penguin | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education - CLPE

The dream-like quality of the illustrations and the evocation of snowy isolation make this a very special book and one to be treasured, as its message of friendship is so beautifully and magically conveyed. A stunning Christmas present Daily Mail Horacek's textured, colour-rich artwork creates dramatically beautiful Antarctic scenes while the little penguin is a charmer. Books for Keeps Every night the penguin would dream about a big whale coming to take him away from his lonely place. In the morning he would sing a song to the whale. Then another little penguin heard him sing and over time she made friends with the penguin. Then the other penguins heard his songs, and they wanted to be his friends too.The artistry is amazing, it can only be described as what looks like pastel drawings, which creates these beautiful, appealing pictures with an overtone of the biting antarctic winds. This story discusses social rejection based on deviation from the norm, and it depicts the loneliness that results in a very moving way. (Personally, I read the blue penguin as a metaphor for someone who has a birth defect affecting his/her appearance, but the color variation could represent any number of things.) Blue Penguin spends his days alone and his nights dreaming of a white whale that will come take him away from his loneliness. Blue Penguin makes up a song about his dream whale, which he sings. Little Penguin hears him singing his song and asks Blue Penguin to teach her his song.

Penguin Books UK | Official Website Penguin Books UK | Official Website

Get in the Christmas spirit early with this stunningly illustrated book by award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek. [...] A charming and engaging book about friendship, understanding and belonging, this heart-warming story is just the thing to help promote positive behaviour in your young child and send him soundly off to sleep. Junior It is precisely at this moment that the white whale from Blue Penguin's dreams arrives. The other penguins ask Blue Penguin not to leave and apologize for their treatment of him. Blue Penguin decides to remain at the South Pole and thanks the white whale for coming for him. After the whale departs, Blue Penguin begins to teach the penguins his new song about friendship. Blue Penguin's new song was so magical that the other penguins came to listen. When he had finished, they went up to him. "Your song is so beautiful," they said. "Will you teach us to sing, too?" The pictures are gorgeous, and in my opinion they are the only thing that saves this book from being one star.Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With nearly 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as quality translations by award-winning translators. It is a touching, inspirational story that would make the perfect bedtime story, or one for a teacher to read to their class. Petr Horacek is a fine storyteller and illustrator, and this is well up to standard. [...] This is another delightful book from a multi-talented author. The School Librarian A heart-warming fable about friendship and belonging from the award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek. Parent Talk

Blue Penguin Colony | Waitaki, New Zealand Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony | Waitaki, New Zealand

Now we start the problems. One of them is this whale Blue Penguin starts dreaming about. Another is how he turns into a sad little dramatic emo boy. You should see this image I have in my head. Singing your made up song about your white whale savior and going dramatically up a cliff to sing it across the sea all sad-like and all the penguins are listening to you!? Please. *rolls eyes* Then one evening Blue Penguin turned to Little Penguin. "It's time we sing a new song," he said. "I will teach you." It was I who called you. I dreamed of you and wished you would come to take me away from my loneliness."

This book is the perfect tool to teach little children that although some people look slightly different, we are all humans, and no-one should be shunned for looking different. Group acceptance within the story hinges on seeing how someone is the same rather than different. I wish the other penguins would have decided to accept Blue Penguin because they realized the error of their ways rather — perhaps through Blue Penguin’s relationship with Little Penguin — than because they discovered he had a special ability. Nevertheless, his finally being embraced by his group was heartwarming. Not sure what he would have done with the whale or where exactly she would have taken him, anyway. Was this a metaphor for committing suicide? I don't know. A heart-warming story of a little blue penguin who struggles being different from the rest. The story discusses friendship and belonging, with a lovely finale. Angels & Urchins Blue Penguin made up a song about the white whale from his dream. Each morning, he sang it across the ocean.

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