My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal

by Sophie Webb

Book Overview

A 2001 Sibert Honor Book What is it like to live in a tiny polar haven for two months? To paint penguins outdoors in freezing weather? To be flipper-slapped by a bird whose wings are powerful enough... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395922917
• ISBN13: 9780395922910
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

An excellent book for children and adults alike

Sophie has written a brilliant book for children and adults to learn about the amazing Adelie Penguins of Antarctica. Her illustrations and story are very well done and it will start a long love affair with the southern continent for you and your child, encouraging you to learn more about the Antarctic.

Sophie's well illustrated penguin expedition

Sophie Webb has applied her wonderful drawings to a travel log of her trip to the Cape Royds penguin colony on Ross Island, Antactica. Her drawings of the penguins in all their various activities are wonderfully accurate and delightful. She also recounts her experiences traveling to Antactica in a way that makes it very real -- I should know, I was there with her! The book is very well suited to kids as well as adults. However, note that she is quite truthful about some of the various fates that can await less fortunate penguins! Sophie has done a great job with this book.