.......in this super story by Russell Punter, for the Usborne First Reading series of books.
USBORNE FIRST READING is graded into FOUR levels, this particular book is: LEVEL TWO.
From the back cover:-
'Perry the Penguin has a very special reason for wanting to get warm.
Can he find a way to take the chill off his frosty feathers?'
Colourful and durable hard-board covers open to 32 high quality shiny pages in the popular 2-page spread format.
Numbered pages, complete with turquoise blue bookmark to keep your place!
Vividly illustrated throughout, by Stephen Gulbis, and further enhanced by meaningful facial expressions.!
A simple, easy-to-follow line or two of text on each page, including speech and speech bubbles.
Example of text:-
'Once, there was a little penguin called Perry.
Perry and his family lived at the South Pole.
It was always very cold. (Brrrrrr!)
One day Perry found a box.............'
and the contents of this box prove to be a little bit of a problem, because Perry is simply too cold to enjoy them! So he sets out on a mission to get warm, acting on advice from various family members, with amusing results!
In my experience, this has proved to be a very popular book, particularly for the less experienced reader, due to the repeat element at various stages which can be joined in with!
A PUZZLES section starts on page 26 with 3 puzzles:-
1. Spot the Differences
2. Match the Word/Pictures
3. Find the Opposites
followed by the answers on pages 30/31.
Other titles from LEVEL TWO include:-
The Old Woman Who Lived in a ShoeThe Clever Rabbit and the LionHow Elephants Lost Their WingsThe Little GiraffeThe Dragon and the Phoenix