Review by Booklist Review
As day breaks, a young Adélie penguin chick waddles across the ice toward the vast Antarctic Ocean. She jumps in and swims as swift and as graceful as any bird in the sky. Searching for food, she encounters other hungry land and sea creatures (a wandering albatross, an Antarctic petrel, and a Weddell seal). Swimming among giant humpbacks and leaping orcas, she dives deep under the ice, where crimson krill and squid dwell, and narrowly escapes being a large leopard seal's lunch. Incredibly, it may be many years before she returns to solid land! In a final, gorgeous nighttime scene, she rests on floating ice while a curtain of stars twinkles above the blue-black ocean. Every glorious double-page spread is in full color, showing animals hunting for food and exploring their surroundings. Vibrant drawings on the endpapers identify 19 birds above the Antarctic ice and 17 mammals and fish below. Children will have fun finding these species as the chick encounters them in this excellent introduction to this polar region.--Gepson, Lolly Copyright 2016 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
This follow-up to 2015's One Day on Our Blue Planet... in the Savannah spends a day with an Adélie penguin chick that has just reached the age when she can swim in the Antarctic Ocean: "She cannot fly, but in the water she is as swift and as graceful as any bird in the sky." Working in a frosty pastel palette, Bailey shows the penguin traveling in search of food, snacking on krill and squid, while avoiding a predatory sea lion. Bailey's crisp, posterlike images evoke midcentury children's books while capturing a sense of polar magic in watery spreads full of orcas, petrels, seals, and other creatures. Ages 3-7. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-This follow-up to the author's One Day on Our Blue Planet...in the Savannah introduces young readers to animals and their habitat. Representational drawings, visual unity, and winter hues fill each page with frozen settings of pinks, blues, grays, and whites. Each spread describes the natural life of this region through the waddling adventures of an Adélie penguin chick. The informative narrative pairs simple sentences with a bounty of authentic illustrations, introducing the penguin's journey from her young beginnings through the moment she sets out on her own into the Antarctic ocean. "She cannot fly, but in the water she is as swift and as graceful as any bird in the sky.. She travels many, many miles each day in search of food...and deep under the ice where a colorful world lies hidden." The images burst with reds, oranges, and pinks as the penguin swims under the ice to gain access to "plenty of krill, fish, and squid to eat." The endpapers depict life above the ice in the Antarctic and under the ice, which will serve both curious learners as well as beginning researchers. VERDICT A good choice for picture book and informational text collections about the region.-Melissa Smith, Royal Oak Public Library, MI c Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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