Here’s my Perfect Picture Book Friday choice:
My Pet Penguins
Written and Illustrated by Mark Iacolina
Price Stern Sloan, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
January 2014
Fiction
Suitable for: Ages 2 and up
Themes: Pets, Friendship, Penguins
Opening Lines: Penguins waddle. Penguins play.
Synopsis from Amazon: Penguins make the best pets! Follow a little girl and her pet penguins as they flip pancakes, spin on the ice, and read a story before catching some zzz’s!
Link to resources: Pets in the classroom. Teaching children pet safety. Talk about pets in the household and write a book on what it can do, using the fun examples from the book.
Why I like the Book: It’s another penguin book! Well, there’s more to it than that. The book’s simple illustrations show how My Pet Penguins can add to the fun of the day. The story is simple with many two word sentences. These short ones add to the overall story of how the penguins are involved in young girl’s day from beginning to end. Mark Iacolina also has written and illustrated My Pet Giraffe and My Pet Polar Bear. Penguins is in board book form and would make a great gift for to a newborn looking for a cute read.
I hope to keep up with everything this weekend. I’m attending an illustrator’s intensive with Will Terry via the Rocky Mountain Chapter of SCBWI. Nope. I’m still not an illustrator, but Will Terry is a great storyteller and I anticipate learning tons of information.
Find more PPBF at Susanna Leonard Hill’s blog.
Stacy S. Jensen
Stacy S. Jensen is always searching for a unique story. She’s found many stories while volunteering, walking her Vizsla, or paper quilling. She loves reading and s’mores. The former newspaper journalist lives in Georgia with her family.
Who loves the penguins, you or Enzo? They always make for an endearing story. Like your activity about teaching pet care.
Have fun at the Rocky Mountain SCBWI illustrator’s conference. I always make a point of attending one of the illustrator workshops at SCBWI because I learn so much. I know it will be of great benefit for you in your writing. Have fun!
Cute, cute, cute!
Penguins are ALWAYS a winner for me!
This sounds very cute, Stacy! I’m enjoying your penguin period 🙂 Hope the illustrator’s intensive goes well! I didn’t know you did illustration!
Learn lots at your workshop! Illustrators and authors can add fun to your day, just like penguins. 🙂 (I wish I could write two word sentence stories!)
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Sounds like a real cute book!
Love your resources!
Thanks for sharing this book. 🙂
one can never have too many penguin books…
How can anyone not like penguins?
Here’s hoping you learn a lot at the Illustrator Intensive. I look forward to a full report!
Trying to envision the adorable animals from the Poles in a classroom. Would be fun (for the kids), maybe for the penguins (too hot? too much petting? LOL). I like that the books teaches about pets in the classroom. The kids spend lots of time there nowadays.
Good wishes on the continual learning, Stacy!
Hope the conference went well, Stacy!
What a fun book…gotta love Penguins! Thanks for adding it to the #PPBF list. 🙂