Penguin Pup for Pinkerton
What's This Book About
When Emily comes home from school and tells her family what she has learned about penguin parents and their babies, Pinkerton is inspired and starts dreaming of raising a penguin pup of his own. In his desperation to become a father, Pinkerton mistakes a football for a penguin egg and winds up tossing an entire football team into one big pileup. Luckily, Emily’s Granny arrives in time to save the day, in this typically hilarious adventure starring everyone’s favorite irrepressible Great Dane.
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Steven Kellogg is a beloved author and illustrator who has published more than 100 picture books, including the classics The Mysterious Tadpole, Can I Keep Him?, The Island of the Skog, and Is Your Mama a Llama?, and Pinkerton, Behave!, which was on Horn Book’s and Booklist’s Best of the Year lists and led to four sequels. Kellogg is a winner of the Regina Medal for his lifetime contribution to children’s literature. His books have received numerous accolades, such as being named Reading Rainbow featured selections and winning the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Award, and the Parents’ Choice Award.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780142501702
- Publication Date
- November 24, 2003
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Page Count
- 32
- Words Per Page
- 17
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 000030848
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 54021507
- Lexile® Level
- AD610L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~O
- ATOS® Book Level
- 2.9
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 54239
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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