Price: £6.99
Publisher: Scholastic
Genre: Picture Book
Age Range: 5-8 Infant/Junior
Length: 32pp
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What's for Lunch, Papa Penguin?
This is perfect for food lovers everywhere, and for those interested in learning about different countries of the world. Just dive into this fishy tale for some frolicsome fun. A happy penguin is being one in the long queue at Papa’s and Pip’s café, the best in the Antarctic, for veritable feasts of fish. Fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner; fried fish, grilled or baked ….even fish ice cream! But what to do when Frank turns up announcing he is fed up with fish and wants something different? A dilemma for Papa Penguin but he comes up with a plan. This entails a very long trip on a liner… Pip constantly asking, ‘Are we there yet?’ until finally they ARE there. Trailing their trolley and armed with a map, Papa P discovers with interest that different creatures have different food preferences. The penguins load their trolley with bread rolls, cheese with holes, even chocolate shakes. Their encounters with world-wide animals are well told in Williamson’s jokey illustrations until, with overflowing trolley they head for home. Here, they bake and baste, test and taste, slice, dice and ice until FINALLY the café is ready to be re-opened. Have you guessed the punch line? What does Frank select? ‘Just FISH, please.’ A delightful book, full of humour in the quirky illustrations with a clear, narrative text.