Reviews

K-Gr 3-Duncan knows that he is a very good-looking penguin. Unlike his peers with their black coats and white shirts, he has his own fluffy, fuzzy gray coat. Every day he admires his reflection in the mirror, loving what he sees. Then one day, a little piece of his gray fluff floats away, and then another and another. Duncan is worried that he is losing his downy coat, so he asks his mother to knit a sweater for him out of all of the bits of fur that he finds. She happily makes him a sweater, but it is too small. Does he actually need to wear it now? Duncan's storycreatively conveys the fun of growing up; however, the amount of text makes both versions more appropriate for school-age audiences than for preschoolers. The adorable illustrations are large and colorful. A bonus is the Spanish/English glossary at the back of the book.-Jessica McClinton Lopez, King County Library System, Auburn, WA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.