Weekend Reading: Turtle's Penguin Day

A young turtle gets very excited by reading a book!

ADDED July 11, 2009

Little Turtle's dad reads him a new book one evening before bed, and Little Turtle loves it!  The book is all about penguins.

Little Turtle is so enchanted with the penguins, in fact, that he decides to become one.  The next day, he wears penguin-ish clothes and brings the book to school for sharing.

Some people who see him are a bit shocked by a turtle dressing up as a penguin, while others are excited by the switch.

We don't want to give away the ending -- there are some twists and turns, as we always like to say -- but it all works out nicely in the end.

This is a fun book for pre-schoolers, and in our house, we've all enjoyed reading it out loud.  We're also going to investigate other books by the same author, Valeri Gorbachev.  (We have high hopes.)

We're not usually the types to use this kind of language, but the story here is quite darling and rather sweet.  (Good luck finding more occurrences of those words on our site!)

What could be better than a summer Saturday spent reading?  (A Saturday spent reading while dressed up as a penguin?)

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