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Busy Penguins Board book – Jan. 1 2000

by John Schindel (Author), Jonathan Chester (Photographer)

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Part of: A Busy Book (6 books)

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The beloved Busy Animals board book series has an irresistible new look!

These busy penguins are dashing, splashing, jumping, bumping, and going about their busy penguin lives. Young children will love to imitate the many actions the penguins are doing, while the vivid, full-color photographs will keep them engaged time after time. Join in the fun!

Reading age

Baby - 3 years
Part of series

A Busy Book
Print length

20 pages
Language

English
Lexile measure

NP
Dimensions

10.95 x 1.09 x 15.39 cm
Publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers
Publication date

Jan. 1 2000
ISBN-10

9781582460161
ISBN-13

978-1582460161
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Product description

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-"Busy, busy penguins. What are they doing?" Schindel uses simple rhyming word pairs that introduce penguin life. Toddlers will enjoy seeing these lovable birds in action. Indeed, they are a busy bunch, from "meeting" and "greeting" to "pooping" and "drooping." The superb color photographs give action to the spare text. The animals stand out against the cold blues and whites of the arctic background. Readers will chuckle at seeing these dignified creatures in silly and endearing poses. This board book is perfect for youngsters to discover independently or to share with an adult.
Hennie Vaandrager, Byron Township Library, Byron Center, MI
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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This board book, straightforward in concept, begins with the lines "Busy, busy penguins. What are they doing?" and answers the question by identifying the birds' activities with rhyming or near-rhyming phrases such as "penguins bumping / penguins jumping / penguins sliding / penguins diving." Although parents may be taken aback by the page showing "penguins pooping," their toddlers will probably take it in stride. Each phrase appears on a single page accompanied by a clear, colorful photo of one or more penguins. A well-designed board book that manages to be simple without looking babyish. Carolyn Phelan

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1582460167
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf Books for Young Readers (Jan. 1 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Board book ‏ : ‎ 20 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781582460161
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1582460161
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 108 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.95 x 1.09 x 15.39 cm

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John Schindel

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John Schindel is the author of the 14-book BUSY series, featuring domestic animal and wildlife photographs from some of the world's best photographers. Cumulative sales of the books is now half a million copies. The series debuted 20 years ago with BUSY PENGUINS, an immediate hit with kids, parents, and booksellers, who adored the rhyme "penguin pooping, penguins drooping." Attractively designed new editions of PENGUINS and 5 other BUSY books, BUNNIES, CHICKENS, DOGGIES, KITTIES, and PANDAS were reissued in 2015.

THE BABIES AND DOGGIES BOOK (March 2015) and THE BABIES AND KITTIES BOOK (April 2020), coauthored with Molly Woodward, bring together excellent collections of photographs of children from around the world and ... you guessed it … dogs and cats! Lots of things babies do, doggies and kitties do too! These board book explore all of the similar actions shared by baby and baby's best friends. More at johnandmollybooks.com.

John is also the author of seven picture books for children 4 - 8 years old, now out of print. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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68 global ratings

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3 star		9%
2 star		5%
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marared

Beautiful photographs - very engaging

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 17, 2001

This book was highly recommended to me by a clerk at a small children's bookstore who told me that for some reason toddlers seem to find it very captivating. I bought it for my daughter for her first birthday, and she loves it. The photographs are beautiful and there's something about the penguins that seems to really grab my daughter's attention. At 14 months she seeks out this book and will "read" it to herself. I agree with the reviewer below who said that the "penguins pooping" page is a real attention-grabber for the toilet training set, and though it could be gross, something about the fact that it's a penguin who's pooping is strangely charming and humorous (if you can stomach that type of thing!). Overall five stars for a book that my daughter and I both love - a great thing for a parent who has to read it over and over.

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TundraBee

Picture Perfect Penguins

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 21, 2003

This Board Book is beautiful colour glossy photographs of busy penguins, doing what penguins do, like:
penguins splashing
penguins dashing
penguins sliding
penguins diving
penguins drooping
(and the anti - Freudian)
penguins pooping.
It's great fun in the Tundra for all ages! Reviewed by TundraVision, Amazon reviewer

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B. Brazy

Engaging book for any toddler

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 16, 2000

"Busy Penguins" is one of my 18-month-old daughter's favorite books. The photographs are incredible, and the text has a gentle rhythm that she finds engaging.

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Diana

Great book. The poop page is my daughter's favorite! Don't discount it too quickly.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2016

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We have a whole bunch of books from this series and love all of them. My 21-month-old is currently going through a penguin phase, so we had to get the penguin book, too. It's a great, engaging book, like the rest of them. Nice photographs of penguins doing different things. I hadn't read the reviews so the pooping picture took me by surprise, but I laughed it off because I'm not a puritan about natural bodily functions. Everybody poops, what's the big deal? I've always wondered what the complainy people do about their pets. When they take the dog for a walk, do they cover their children's eyes when he squats and lets one loose? Or if they saw an animal at the zoo do it? Come on now. Animals pooping and peeing is a fact of life. Moreover, it's out in the open for all to see, not hidden in bathrooms like people. The kids themselves don't care, it's the adults who are shocked. My daughter was so impressed by that photo that it instantly became her favorite part of the book. She flips through the rest of the pages impatiently just to get to this one, and she calls the whole book "penguin poop book". She LOVES that page. This is a good age for it, too, because we're potty training and she's very interested in pooping, and in the fact that everybody and everything poops. She makes all her toys "poop" and puts them on the toy potty. Books help, too. She is similarly enthralled with the pee picture in the Busy Kittens book. It was that image that got her out of her funk when she regressed with potty training last month, after startling herself with a large fart and getting scared. After not doing anything on the potty for weeks, visually seeing pee again in the book got her interested again, and that same day she started peeing in the potty again, and being excited about it! So, these images help. You don't really see poop and pee out and about much otherwise, but kids are fascinated by it, and seeing it really helps move potty training along. I'd rather have it in a book with a cute animal, than have to bring her into the bathroom with me and show her my results (which some people do).

The only thing I don't like about the pooping page is that they could've picked a better picture, with thicker poop of a different color that's easier to tell apart from pee. I know penguins' creations are more liquid than ours, but in this picture it's a thin little stream of yellow, which looks like pee and is confusing. The penguins at our local aquarium have more of a soft-serve ice cream thing going on. Sorry about the details... But if you have young kids, you shouldn't be new to or afraid of poop anyway ;-)

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Jen Benji

Excellent Toddler Board Book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2020

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Purchased as a gift for a 2-year-old who loves penguins. It's now one of her favorite books. Would recommend! People need to chill out about the pooping page. If your child doesn't think it's funny then there's obviously something wrong with your parenting. Perhaps a later edition will include a "penguin farting" page.

L. Quick

Favorite book series in our home

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2019

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My family loves these books! Penguins pooping is my sons’ favorite page. Great pictures, simple but sweet words. Great series!

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i-Mama

Penguin photography!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2016

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It's a fun little book with photographs of penguins doing what they do best, look cute and busy at the same time. My 16 month old immediately took to the book, and recognised them immediately at the zoo a few months later, pointing and clapping away.

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SleepSaks5thAvenue

Nice photos and concept

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2014

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Nice photos and concept. Be forewarned -- there's a page for "penguin pooping" that has a graphic shot of a penguin going potty. I was both amused and slightly grossed out.

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