Blue Penguin

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Blue Penguin - Horacek, Petr: 9781406366013 - AbeBooks Blue Penguin - Horacek, Petr: 9781406366013 - AbeBooks

It is a touching, inspirational story that would make the perfect bedtime story, or one for a teacher to read to their class. 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. 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* 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. 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.

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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. 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. 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.)

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Here are 75 answers to that question selected by the editors of Penguin Classics for our 75 th anniversary. We hope these selections, some familiar and some surprising, guide you through a reader’s odyssey. 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 Far away, near the South Pole, a blue penguin as born ... 'Are you a real penguin?' asked the other penguins. 'I feel like a penguin,' said Blue Penguin ... 'But you're not like us,' said the other penguins."I don't even know if this is what Petr Horáček was trying to get at, honestly. He says, "I had a friend who didn't quite fit in with others, and I found him rather inspiring." So... ???

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Horacek's textured, colour-rich artwork creates dramatically beautiful Antarctic scenes while the little penguin is a charmer. Books for Keeps Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments The pictures are gorgeous, and in my opinion they are the only thing that saves this book from being one star. 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 fable about friendship and belonging from the award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek. Parent Talk Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - 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.