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[ 책 소개 ]
* NSTA-CBC(미국과학교사협회) Outstanding Science Book for Children
* ABC(아동도서서점협회) Children's Booksellers Choice
* An Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Seal Award 수상작
* A Working Mother Magazine Best Book of the Year
전 세계에 분포하는 17종의 팽귄 중에서 황제 팽귄은 몸집이 가장 크고, 또한 가장 독특한 방식으로 번식을 합니다. 이 책은 황제 팽귄이 알을 낳고, 품어주며, 부화하기 까지 어떤 과정을 거치는지를 쉽고 재미있게 보여줍니다.
남극대륙에 사는 황제팽귄은 추위가 찾아오는 늦가을이 되면 바닷가에서 약 150킬로미터(서울에서 대전까지의 거리) 떨어진 내륙으로 알을 낳기 위해 집단으로 이동을 합니다. 몇 주가 지난 후, 암컷은 번식장소에서 알을 한 개 낳아서 수컷에게 넘겨줍니다. 남극의 겨울은 혹한의 강풍과 눈보라가 몰아치는 지구 최악의 기후입니다. 암컷은 알을 낳은 후 다시 바다로 이동해서 겨울 내내 수영을 하며 맛있는 먹이를 실컷 먹습니다. 반면에 수컷은 겨울철 내내 여러달 동안 아무것도 먹지 않고 두 발 위에 알을 올려놓고는 배로 덮어서 정성껏 알을 품어줍니다. 지구 상의 그 어느 동물도 흉내조차 낼 수 없는 지극한 정성으로 혹한의 날씨를 이겨내며 알을 품은지 두 달 정도가 지나면 마침내 알을 깨고 귀여운 새끼 펭귄이 태어납니다. 아빠 펭귄은 새끼가 품 안을 벗어나지 않도록 돌보면서 위 속에 저장하고 있던 우유같은 음식을 토해내서 먹여줍니다. 그리고 몇주가 지난 후 멀리서 조그만 점들이 보이기 시작하고, 마침내 엄마 팽귄이 모습을 드러냅니다. 감격스러운 가족 상봉을 마친 후 이제는 엄마 팽귄이 아기 펭귄을 돌보는 대신에 아빠 펭귄은 바닷가를 향해서 출발을 하지요...
[ 서지 정보 ]
Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN: 0763618713
책 크기: 25cm x 23cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
Describes the parental behavior of Emperor penguins, focusing on how the male keeps the egg warm until it hatches and how the parents care for the chick after it is born.
Publishers Weekly
After Chapman (One Duck Stuck) lures readers with an irresistible cover image of a baby emperor penguin, the author documents the unusual role of the father in the birthing of this winning subject. Emperor penguins make their home in Antarctica, "the coldest, windiest place on Earth." During the region's chilliest season, a female penguin lays one egg and leaves her mate to incubate it; he rests the egg atop his feet, so that his feathery white belly keeps it toasty. "What's more, there's nothing for the father penguin to eat on land.... So that means two whole months with an egg on your feet and no dinner!" Chapman provides naturalistic acrylics of the frozen environment, against cold violet or warm orange backdrops. The blue-white ice and sky offset the charcoal feathers and buttercup-yellow breasts of the birds. Jenkins presents abundant penguin facts in the same conversational voice of Chameleons Are Cool but without the child narrator he used to such strong effect. Yet he achieves a similar tone, for instance, while speculating that the male penguin must be "very, very miserable" as it awaits the egg's hatching and the mother bird's return. Together with artwork that balances realistic details with the penguins' implicit charm, Jenkins's lively text will attract many readers to this tale of one of nature's unique parenting arrangements.
Children's Literature
This introduction to the Emperor penguin of Antarctica furnishes factual information as we follow one father penguin's two-month stint on the ice, keeping his egg warm on his feet "tucked right up under" his tummy. In simple language, with humor and much empathy for the dad, the text rambles across the pages, using oversize type for emphasis, and telling an engrossing tale of endurance. In smaller italics, basic facts are added. The hatching of the chick and reappearance of the mother allow the hungry father to eat at last. It's about time, too! Chapman's naturalistic paintings zoom in on such details as the tucked-in egg, and sometimes expand to depict the vast blue-white nothingness of the landscape. The visual story is told with considerable clarity and enough variety to entice the reader to turn the page. The penguin on the jacket/cover is very appealing. An index is included.
Library Journal
Emperor penguin paternity is presented in a positive light in this genial picture book. After a female lays an egg in late autumn, her mate does his utmost to keep his offspring warm while she goes off to spend the winter feeding in the sea. He does not feed himself for two months-well after his hatchling arrives. After the chick hatches, the mother returns and both parents take turns looking after it. It is a true labor of love at the bottom of the world. The anthropomorphizing and Jenkins's repeated asides ("I don't know about you but I'd be VERY, VERY miserable" or "YUK, you may think. YUM, thinks the chick, and gobbles it all down") undermine the book's value as nonfiction. Type sizes change with the mood of the action. Factoids, written in small, italicized script, are interspersed throughout but do not interfere with the narrative flow. The endearing acrylic illustrations are largely naturalistic. Blue and purple backgrounds throughout convey a cold, even Antarctic, feel. Gail Gibbons's Penguins! (Holiday, 1998) covers much of the same material. Students who are wild about penguins and classrooms doing units on them will find The Emperor's Egg an action-packed read and an appealing choice to clue readers in on just how hard Emperor dads work. However, it isn't nonfiction in the true sense of the word.
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