Pinquo
$24.99
ISBN
9781921073854
By | Colin Thiele |
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Format | Hardback |
Page Extent | 80 |
Book Size | 230 x 230 mm |
Imprint | New Holland Publishers |
Release Date | 10 Jan 2025 |
Subject Classification | Children's & young adult fiction & true stories / Classic fiction (Children's/YA) |
Pinquo is a fairy penguin, who can swim, skip and dive faster than the blink of an eye.
When Pinquo is wounded, the children Kirsty and Tim take him to Dr Piper, and they all look after Pinquo until he is ready to go to sea.
Later the penguin with the droopy walk and kinky flipper comes back into their lives, with his new family.
When disaster strikes Sickle Bay, Pinquo leads a mad stampede of a thousand frenzied penguins, to save the townspeople. Little Pinquo is a hero.
When Pinquo is wounded, the children Kirsty and Tim take him to Dr Piper, and they all look after Pinquo until he is ready to go to sea.
Later the penguin with the droopy walk and kinky flipper comes back into their lives, with his new family.
When disaster strikes Sickle Bay, Pinquo leads a mad stampede of a thousand frenzied penguins, to save the townspeople. Little Pinquo is a hero.
Colin Thiele
Colin Milton Thiele AC was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy, Blue Fin, the Sun on the Stubble series, and February Dragon