The World's funniest secrets of Penguins

If a Baby Penguin Kept an Illustrated Diary

by Kazuoki Ueda / Penguin Airplane Factory

ISBN978-4-7631-3707-4 C8045

157 pages / July 2018 / 1,100 yen (w/o tax)

Everything you need to know about TV’s favorite emperor penguin!

Description

Full-color illustrations on every page!

An illustrated diary of an emperor penguin’s life from birth to adulthood!

Also enjoyable for children who don’t  like to read!

 

Naturally grow to love science!

Leading penguin researcher Kazuoki Ueda provides clear and entertaining commentary! Kids who don’t like science are actually eating this book up!

 

A great book for a research project!

Simply taking notes on parts of the book you like will make your research project easy!

 

Includes an appearance by Instagram-famous Penta.

The cute and lovable character Penta, who has become famous on Instagram, shares penguin secrets!

From the table of contents

◎Raising an emperor penguin starts with daddy

◎Emperor penguins never eat fish from the tail end!

◎The male penguin gives milk to the baby??

◎ They throw their poop 2 meters!

◎All penguins have a good sense of direction

◎Why do penguins walk in a line?

From the editor "Ruriko"

The story of a penguin’s life is really quite moving and also very entertaining. This book is a pleasure to read, with its wonderfully cute illustrations. I’ve heard that our staff members’ children are having a hard time putting it down. Read it to find out why!

 

Author

Kazuoki Ueda

Kazuoki Ueda is a Japanese penguin expert, born in Tokyo in 1954. He graduated from Kokugakuin University’s Department of History and became a penguin researcher as well as a teacher at Meguro-Gakuin Senior and Junior High School.

 

He started his penguin research in 1970 and in 1987 became involved in penguin preservation and relief work. He was the only Asian participant in the 1st International Penguin Conference, held in 1988. He has visited the South Pole three times for research purposes and has been a member of the Penguin Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature since 2016. He has authored numerous books including The World of Penguins (Iwanami Shoten).

Penguin Airplane Factory

We create stories that relate to changing inconvenient circumstances into happy ones. We also produce baby penguin toys related to Penta, with his trademark bedhead hair, and the cute pink ribbon-clad character Koharu. Also, the “Penstagram” page that details the daily lives of Penta and Koharu is a popular Instagram account known to soothe its followers. Penta was featured in March of the Penguins 2, the sequel to the 2005 Oscar-winning feature-length documentary March of the Penguins.