Peter the Penguin Pioneer
No. of pages 128
Published: 2009
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published in 2009 by Hachette Children's Group .
David Roberts was born in Liverpool. He studied fashion and worked in the industry for several years before going on to illustrate children's books. He has also published Dirty Bertie with Little Tiger Press. Daren King's first adult novel Boxy an Star was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and his first children's book Mouse Noses on Toast won the Nestle Children's Gold Prize. He lives in Dublin.
Blue Peter Award: Best Picture Book
David Roberts: Chapter Books
Animals in literature
Nature in literature
Blue Peter Awards
This book has been nominated for the following award:
Blue Peter Book Award - Most Fun Story With Pictures
This book was recognised in the Most Fun Story with Pictures category by the Blue Peter Book Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.
King is very good at making children think about their world...hugely inventive and charmingly funny, early readers will adore having this book read to them and will love trying it themselves - Literary Review. * Literary Review *
'If you love adventure and are potty about our penguin pals p-p-pick up Peter the Pioneer Penguin.' National Geographic Kids. * National Geographic Kids *
Children will laugh out loud at the zany humour and the witty one-liners...while David Roberts' comical illustrations can't fail to raise a giggle - Scholastic Literacy Time Plus Magazine. * Time Plus Magazine *
