Blue Penguin

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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 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 made up a song about the white whale from his dream. Each morning, he sang it across the ocean.

Blue Penguin by Petr Horáček | Goodreads

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 pictures are gorgeous, and in my opinion they are the only thing that saves this book from being one star.For Classroom Study: Visit Penguin Random House Education to search for our newest Penguin Classics or dive deeper into our catalogs.

Blue Penguin by Petr Horacek (9781406366013/Paperback

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 Press Reviews

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. 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.