Penguin Pete and Pat [Paperback]

Marcus Pfister (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Upon returning from his travels, Penguin Pete is captivated by a girl penguin with a blue beak, cultivates her friendship, and wins her flipper in marriage.

--This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Penguin Pete, previously encountered in Penguin Pete and Penguin Pete's New Friends , romps with some dolphins on his way back to his home colony. Later he finds true love with a blue-beaked girl penguin named Pat; they get married and have a baby by book's end. Readers will neither understand Pete's head-over-heels attraction for Pat, nor will they care. The plot and the characters--despite Pfister's buoyant watercolors--just lie on the page. Ages 5-8.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback
• Publisher: North-South (April 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558582436
• ISBN-13: 978-1558582439
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,636,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marcus Pfister has written and illustrated many books for North-South, including the popular Penguin Pete and Hopper series. His books The Rainbow Fish, Rainbow Fish to the Rescue!, and Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale have become international best-sellers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Cute book. Strange ending., February 12, 2010

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Adoring Mommy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Penguin Pete and Pat (Paperback)

Illustrations are cute. Story seems a bit child-inappropriate with it being a love story. However, I like that it teaches that a yellow beaked penguin and blue beaked penguin make a green beaked penguin (color mixing and genetics), but then the green beaked penguin becomes insecure about it's beak color. This issue is resolved in a strange and unsatisfying way on the last page by the dad distracting the baby penguin with an unclear trick. Seems like a nice opportunity to embrace differences but the author missed it. I have not read the other books and wonder if that would have helped.

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute story, lovely illustrations, January 10, 2002

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K. Davis "kelleyaynn" (Baltimore , MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Penguin Pete and Pat (Paperback)

I really like this book. The story is cute and endearing, though it would help to have read the earlier books in the series first. It mentions several characters from those books, though they are cameos and are not critical to the story. It also ends rather abruptly as if there should be one more page to give a feeling of closure. That said, it is an enjoyable book, and I even use it when teaching genetics to my seventh graders. The beak colors are a fun example of codominant gene alleles!