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In their second book, overeager penguin Virgil finishes polar bear Owen's joke, his sandwich, and so on. The book is like a primer in navigating a friendship's occasional snags: while kids can't roar their anger like Owen, they can use their words, and, like Virgil, say "I'm sorry." The pen, watercolor, and gouache art captures both the tenderness and the slapstick.