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PRESCHOOL

Tamura, Marikka

Penguins Don't Wear Sweaters!

32 pp. | Penguin/Paulsen | January, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-101-99696-6 $16.99

(2) PS Illustrated by Daniel Rieley. After an oil spill, well-meaning offstage "Big Boots" try outfitting penguins with sweaters to protect them. The be-sweatered penguins look adorable in Rieley's crisp-lined, ice-cool-colored mixed-media art. But as Tamura's author's note explains, sweaters are almost as bad for penguins as spilled oil. The last pages of this gentle cautionary tale hint at this point: beware the easy fix, even when the fix is unbelievably cute.

Reviewer: Nell Beram | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2018