Penguins

I ordered this for my 9 year old grandson for Christmas as he loves penguins but is very picky about not getting a "kids" book. He loved this. The pictures are beautiful and the information is excellent

This is a beautiful book! My 15 year old wants to learn everything there is to know about penguins. I do believe this will get her started. The pictures are wonderful. The text is very informative. I'm very happy with this purchase.

Purchased for my granddaughter. She loved it and spends time reviewing it often. She is seven years old and it was definitely good for her age group, or even older.

After visiting Antarctica and seeing thousands of penguins, I purchased this book to remind of the beautiful creatures who live in unbelievable conditions in the south region of our planet.

great book we saw in Ushuia Argentina but was too heavy to carry on our trip--fabulous pictures of the Falklands and other places we had been to see penquins

L love penguins and the pictures and information are really wonderful. I gave this as a gift and it was loved much

I bought this book to add to a student collection of penguin books. The students love it. I would recommend it as great information and pictures.

A large format style book that primarily consists of photographs with only relatively minimal text in comparison. This isn't a negative as the photographs are excellent. Every page has at least one near full-page sized photo, with some pages having up to two or three at most while other photos span both pages. The photo captions are brief: stating penguin type, location, and time of the year taken.The penguin photographic coverage consists mostly of the Adelie, Rockhopper, Gentoo, African, King, and Magellanic penguins although some others are covered in much less detail. One type noticably absent is the Emperor penguin - although the Emperor is well covered in many other publications. Here though there is only one photo in the back in the species section maybe? Would possibly have rated this as a 5-star book if it was expanded to include the famous Emperor penguin in the same detail as the other penguins covered. As is though, definitely recommended.If you're looking for a photo book detailing multiple penguin types then this is a great start.

I bought this book as I intended to travel to South Georgia and Antarctica. Having been and seen many penguins I find this book very useful. It has about nine chapters, such as 'Life in the Colony', 'Raising Chicks', Penguin Migration' etc and a very helpful section about penguin species and how to identify them. It has large photos of adult as well as young penguins. The text is sufficient to give you a good understanding of the birds without becoming too scientific. It is a large hard backed book, which is an enjoyable read.