Customer Reviews

Tacky and the Emperor (Tacky the Penguin)

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My daycare kids love this book. I love reading it aloud. About the complaint of the song being hard to sing as long as you make it silly it works. If you read it through yourself once before reading it aloud you can make it flow. All the Tacky books are great.

If you loved how Tacky tricked the hunters in his first book you will love his stint as the emeror.

I purchased this book for my children because it is a book they read for a competition this year. My kids really enjoyed Tacky and the Emperor and could not put it down. It is challenging enough that as a parent you know they are gaining reading skills for younger students and interesting enough to hold their attention. The other penguins put Tacky down because of his appearance and different ways, but sometimes people need a little variety in their lives.

The "Tacky" series of books and many of the others written by Helen Lester, illustrated by Lynn Messenger are fabulous examples of what TAG (Talented and Gifted) kids live through on a daily basis. They march to a different drummer! I enjoy my two "taglets" and when they laugh out loud upon reading these books, then I know they "get it"! These books are fun and enjoyable with simple messages for everyone to live by.

Once again Helen Lester did it. This is another charming book of Tacky's adventures. This time Tacky and his polite fellow penguins are preparing for the visit of the Emperor penguin. Tacky ends up stumbling upon the emperor's clothes and decides to try them on. Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect all mistake Tacky for the emperor and spend the afternoon entertaining him. Tacky enjoys it all until the Emperor comes. But before the Emperor can get mad at Tacky, Tacky charms the Empreror like he does the readers with his humerous singing, balloon hats, and jokes. The Emperor is thrilled not to have the same old boring routine and lets Tacky keep his clothing. Tacky is the hero of the day and never looked better wearing a kingly crown and a oversized robe that barely covers his Hawaiian shirt. Tacky lovers everywhere will enjoy this great story and will have them singing "How many toes does a fish have? I wonder, yup, I wonder."

My daughter likes the Tacky series. For some reason; this book didn't go over as well.

The emperor of the penguins is going to visit the iceberg. Goodly, Lovely, and Angel make piles of fish-flavored cupcakes, punch and Ice cream. Neatly decorates a throne with ribbons and sparkly stars. Perfect practices a dance and Tacky handles the balloons.

The only problem is the emperor sees this all the time and is not looking for yet another day which is the same as all other days.

Tacky blows up a balloon and floats off and lands on the emperors berg. The emperor not being happy decides to take a swim. Tacky stumbles on his cloths and takes them!

He returns to the ice berg and everything thinks he is the emperor and give him the food, throne and the dance.

Eventually, the emperor appears and Tacky ends up showing him a fun time.
The emperor likes it so much that he declares Tacky to be a prince amount Penguins.

As always; Tacky was an odd bird, but a nice bird to have around.

Overall, it's a good story and the art is good but again my daughter did not like this book as much.

This book is, frankly, annoying. It is written in a strange manner, mixing "folksy" dialogue and more straightforward language, with an awkward flow to it - hardly inducive to reading out loud.

I found the characters either mean-spirited or annoying, and the storyline clunky. The "song" that Tacky sings at the end while doing a stupid dance is just plain difficult to sing. It is up to the reader to imagine a "tune" while reading the book aloud, but the lyrics are quite tuneless (contrast with, say, Boynton).

Disappointing book, in my opinion.