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24 pp.
| Abrams
| November, 2010
|
TradeISBN 978-0-8109-9582-6$17.95
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Translated by Amanda Katz.
Illustrated by
Joëlle Jolivet.
Paper engineering by Bernard Duisit. Ten penguins disappear one by one as they play; one explodes from eating too fast and another falls through a hole in the ice. The final spread shows all the penguins back safely: surprise! It was a joke. The vibrant, graphically imaginative art, diminutive size, and combination of pop-ups and pull tabs have tremendous kid appeal, but the rhyming text falls flat.