Little Penguin's Tale Book

"Little Penguin's Tale" is a cute story from Audrey Wood and it details the adventures of a naughty penguin who wonders away from home and meets some unusual animals along the way. "Little Penguin's Tale" is like the Arctic version of "Peter Rabbit" and is surely to be a delight for both children and adults.

Audrey Wood's latest children's book is full of color and creativity as it details the adventures of a naughty little penguin who runs away from the other penguins and Grand Nanny Penguin to have a little fun, which turns into a life and death situation as he encounters a giant whale. The story is extremely cute as Audrey Wood illustrates the small penguins like innocent little children listening to Grand Nanny Penguin telling her story. The image that is probably the cutest out of this whole book is the image near the beginning of the book where Grand Nanny Penguin is standing over the six good penguins and the six penguins are munching on fruits that they have found while laying down beneath Grand Nanny Penguin. This image reminded me of how I usually sit around on my mother's lap while she tells her stories to me. I also loved the way how Little Penguin does indeed get in trouble with the whale when he decides to not listen to his Grand Nanny's tale and wonder off alone in the snowy place. Audrey Wood uses references to "Peter Rabbit" as both stories depict how naughty youngsters find themselves in trouble when they disobey their authorities. Also, Audrey Wood's illustrations are beautiful and creative since she draws the landscape of the polar world in various colors such as, orange, blue, yellow, and white. The penguins themselves are adorable and a bit lumpy in some parts of their bodies such as their waists and stomachs, but that adds to the cartoonish flavor of this book and that is what makes this book so unique from other children's books I have read.

"Little Penguin's Tale" is an extraordinary tale about penguins from the creative mind of none other than Audrey Wood herself! Young children would be delighted in reading about Little Penguin's adventures in the unknown and how he outsmarts a hungry whale. This book is best suited for children ages four and up since, other than the whale scenes, there is nothing inappropriate about this book.

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