"This nearly wordless narrative traces a penguin chick's solo voyage around the world. The opening scenes depict a frozen, black, white, and gray world populated by penguins of various sizes and dispositions. The protagonist, not a fuzzy chick but a bit smaller than the adults, stands alone on the other side of the gutter near the water, orange beak grasping a fish. All heads turn toward the sound 'Snick!' whereupon firm land becomes an ice floe, and the young one drifts off ... When the hero, bedecked with a lei, glides home on an orange-red surfboard and the page turn reveals a brown-skinned surfer contemplating an ice sliver, the subtle message of global warming is left to readers"--Kirkus Reviews (07/15/2020).
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