Blog tour: Do Penguins Like The Cold?

Welcome to the blog tour for Do Penguins Like The Cold? by Huw Lewis Jones and Sam Caldwell!

More about the book…

In this entertaining and highly informative book, polar-explorer Huw Lewis Jones and nature illustrator Sam Caldwell take readers on an intrepid field trip to Antarctica and beyond to discover the secret life of penguins.

Journeying throughout the Southern Hemisphere to incredible locations including Argentina, Australia, Chile, the Galápagos Islands, Namibia, New Zealand, Peru and South Africa, Do Penguins Like the Cold? introduces readers to the 18 species of penguin and the conservation work underway to protect them and their habitats.

More about the author and illustrator…

Huw Lewis Jones is a polar-exploring author and naturalist who is lucky to have met many animals in the wild.

He is Associate Professor at Falmouth University, teaching natural history, and has written history books about photography, icebergs, mountains and maps.

He is also the author of the Bad Apple series of picture books.

Sam Caldwell is an illustrator based in Glasgow, Scotland.

He studied painting at the Edinburgh College of Art and is the illustrator of several books for children, including Do Bears Poop in the Woods?.

My impressions…

The publisher suggests that this book will take ‘readers on a field trip to Antarctica and beyond to discover the secret life of penguins’ – and what a journey that is. Both my children love penguins, and this book came at the right time, as it was the perfect addition to their bookish advent calendar.

What they liked: the gorgeous illustrations, the short paragraphs, the experience of huddling around the book together, the newfound knowledge that penguins shoot out a jet of liquid poo when they need the loo!

What I enjoyed: all of the above, plus the ability of learning and teaching the children new things while having fun together… although I could have happily done without being reminded about the penguin poo at dinner time!

Three words to describe it. Cute. Fun. Educational.

Do I like the cover? It’s gorgeous!

Have I read any other books by the same author? Yes, I have come across both the author and illustrator before.

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