A pirate hat. A sunny day. For Penguin Blue A game to play… Penguin Blue is back in a swashbuckling new adventure about pirates, treasure, and friendship. While sailing the seven seas Captain Blue and his friends are unexpectedly sunk! But with a shipwreck to explore and a mysterious stranger on a desert island to meet, they might still find some treasure after all. The follow-up to the bestselling and award-winning Blown Away.

What Kind of Book is Sunk!

Topics

friendship penguins pirates

Genres

action and adventure

Reviews

Lemony Snickers

6.25

Sunk! is an adorable book about some polar friends who sail the seven seas for adventure. The illustrations are fun and clever, and the book has fantastic rhyming and is great for vocabulary expansion (e.g., buccaneers, marooned). Most fun of all, the friends show some real creativity when they figure out how to raise a sunken ship from the depths of the ocean. Added bonus if you can read with a pirate voice-- there are some really great lines ("Well, blow me away!") that really facilitate some fun.

Book Lists That Include Sunk!

Books about friendship

Books about penguins

Books about action and adventure

The Creative Behind the Book

Author & Illustrator

Rob Biddulph

He is a bestselling and multi award-winning author/illustrator. His first picture book, Blown Away, was published in 2014 and was only the second illustrated book in history to win the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. It was read as a CBeebies Bedtime Story by Mark Bonnar in 2017. His second book, GRRRRR!, was nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway medal and his third, Odd Dog Out, was nominated for a total of eight literary prizes, winning the BSC Festival of Literature Picture Book Award and the UKLA Student Shadower’s Vote Book Award. It was also read as a CBeebies Bedtime Story by Tom Hardy in 2017. His fourth, Sunk!, was nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway medal and shortlisted for The People’s Book Award and Oscar’s Book Prize, and his fifth, Kevin, was nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway medal and shortlisted for the BSC Festival of Literature Picture Book Award and the IBW Book Award. His sixth book, Happy Hatchday, is the first in the brand-new Dinosaur Juniors series, and the second, Give Peas a Chance, published in July 2018. As well as working on his own books he also illustrates for other authors including Jeff Brown (the Flat Stanley series), Piers Torday, Jess Butterworth, SE Durrant and Christian O’Connell. Before he became a full-time author/illustrator he was the art director of the Observer Magazine, NME, Uncut, SKY and Just Seventeen. He lives in London with his wife and three daughters and hasn’t given up hope that, maybe, one of them will go to an Arsenal match with him one day.