Multcolib School Corps Picks Penguins Grade 1
Annotation:Takes the reader on a chilly journey and explains what happens in a penguin's world.
Annotation:Penguins sliding on their tummies and swimming in the sea! Penguins cuddling for warmth and hiding in the shade! A wide variety of these irresistibly charming animals--from climates warm and cold--dance across the pages this book.
Annotation:A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of penguins, a family of flightless birds. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why emperor penguins are so big
Annotation:Examines the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, nutritional needs, and life cycle of penguins and lists websites where readers can find more information.
Annotation:Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.
Annotation:Describes the daily activities and dangers shared by the penguins and other animal inhabitants of Antarctica.
Annotation:When a box containing a penguin arrives anonymously on New Year's Day, a family of four is puzzled, but as they continue to receive one penguin each day their problems--and food budget, and storage issues--are multiplied.
Annotation:When a box containing a penguin arrives anonymously on New Year's Day, a family of four is puzzled, but as they continue to receive one penguin each day their problems are multiplied.
Annotation:Follow as a penguin grows from egg to adulthood in the coldest place on earth.
Annotation:Follow a colony of king penguin chicks on the island of South Georgia from birth until they are able fend for themselves at sea.
Annotation:Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
Annotation:Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
Annotation:Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
Annotation:Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
Annotation:Learn about the wonderful world of Emperor penguins, from the courtship rituals through the birth of the chicks.
Annotation:Spend a year in the life of the emperor penguins, including their journey across frozen Antarctica
Annotation:In Antarctica, Little Emperor grows from a hatchling who depends on his parents for food and warmth, to an adult, ready to live in the sea on his own.
Annotation:Describes the long, dangerous journey of a female emperor penguin to bring food back for her newborn chick.
Annotation:Penguin and Little Blue escape their promotional tour for Water World and get back to their iceberg home.
Annotation:In this book, young readers visit puffins who live at the top of the earth in Iceland and penguins who live at the bottom of the earth in Antarctica.
Annotation:At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
Annotation:Even though he loves water, Sergio the penguin is afraid to swim in the deep water until he learns how.
Annotation:Even though he loves water, Sergio the penguin is afraid to swim in the deep water until he learns how.
Annotation:Meet the different species of penguins, from the Little Blue to the Emperor, and find out about their feathers, their coloring, and their habitat-as well as how they build their nests and raise their young.
Annotation:Celebrate the slips and slides and swims and glides of delightful penguins in poetry and song.
Annotation:Describes the behaviors and habitats of penguins.
Annotation:An emperor penguin lays an egg on the Antarctic ice. In the bitter cold, miles away from the only source of food, how can the chick survive?
Annotation:Presents information about baby penguins, how they behave, and where they live. In English and Spanish.
Annotation:A newly hatched Emperor penguin wants nothing more than to look like his tall, strong father. But when his own fluffy gray feathers start to fall out, Little Penguin is sure his wish will never come true.
Annotation:From emperors and kings to fairies and rockhoppers, penguins are everybody's favorite birds. It may be their formal, tuxedo-like appearance or their funny march on happy feet, or maybe they're just plain fun to watch ; features video footage of penguins in their natural and captive habitats, their actual calls and cries, and interesting facts and trivia about all 17 kinds of penguins.
A Shared List by multcolib_schoolcorps 
Member of Multnomah County Library
Description
Fiction and nonfiction materials (in English and Spanish) about penguins for 1st grade
English
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