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by Deborah Lee Rose (Author), Fabienne Durant (Contribution by)
Children love Emperor penguins--they're so waddly and their chicks are so fluffy. In Penguins Ready to Go, Go, Go!, young readers will discover how these birds that "never, ever fly" have amazing adaptations to waddle, sled, huddle, dive, swim, leap, and snuggle their chicks to survive in the frozen world of Antarctica.
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Children love Emperor penguins, because they're cute and funny. In PENGUINS READY TO GO, GO, GO!, children will discover how these waddling birds--that "never, ever fly"--are amazingly adapted to living in Earth's most extreme environment. The book transports children to the frozen continent of Antarctica, where Emperor penguins not only waddle, but sled on their bellies across the ice, dive deep in the ocean, trek over long distances, huddle against snowy blizzards, and even make bubbles with their feathers, to survive and raise their fluffy chicks.
Rhyming verses full of penguin surprises and movement, and expanded STEM-rich backmatter, let readers and soon-to-be-readers explore Emperors' wild, wintry world. You-are-there photos, by scientists and photographers on the Antarctic sea ice and in the polar ocean (some photos never published for children before), capture all kinds of penguin motion: leaping out of the ocean after diving for food, checking on an egg carried on a parent penguin's feet, running with a scientist on the ice, and more.
PENGUINS READY TO GO, GO, GO! spotlights how scientists are discovering the penguins' secrets, like how Emperors use underwater bubble streams to speed through the ocean and launch themselves up, out, and back onto the ice. Scientists have also found how Emperor penguins use a kind of teamwork by constantly shuffling, step by step, through their huddle so all the penguins get a turn in the warm center.
In the book, children can learn how climate change is melting sea ice, now making Emperor penguins a threatened species, and how people around the world can help protect and conserve these much-loved birds.
Author Biography
Deborah Lee Rose is the author of 19 children's books read around the world and in space! The author of Penguins Ready to Go, Go, Go!, she has won five national STEM children's books awards including for Astronauts Zoom! which orbited on the International Space Station for 57 million miles for Story Time From Space. Astronaut Koichi Wakata read the book aloud onboard the space station. The readaloud video is now a free STEM and reading resource at https: //storytimefromspace.com/astronauts-zoom/. Both Astronauts Zoom! and Deborah's Scientists Get Dressed won the national DeBary Award.
With raptor biologist Janie Veltkamp, Deborah has coauthored two STEM books about endangered and threatened birds, Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle, winner of the AAAS/Subaru Award and the Bank Street College Cook Prize, and Swoop and Soar: How Science Rescued Two Osprey Orphans and Found Them a New Family in the Wild, winner of the DeBary Award. All five books are published by Persnickety Press/WunderMill Books.
Deborah's classic ocean alphabet book Into the A, B, Sea has sold more than a quarter million copies. She also authored its companion book One Nighttime Sea. A graduate of Cornell University, where she first learned the word "ecology," Deborah was senior science writer for UC Berkeley's renowned Lawrence Hall of Science. She is now a contributing editor for PRISM Magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education. After many years in Walnut Creek, CA, she lives in Silver Spring, MD, with her husband, Ken, an environmental health scientist. Visit her website at www.deborahleerose.com.
