Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.4 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18290 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-12-25 13:05:01 Boxid IA1989923 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The boy and penguin duo whose story together began in Lost and Found return in this second Oliver Jeffers picture-book devoted to their adventures. Now fast friends, the two do everything together, until Penguin decides that he needs to fly, and that he must do it alone. He discovers that his heart's desire isn't everything he'd hoped however, when he joins the circus as a penguin cannonball act, and finds that he misses his friend...

Jeffers was born in Australia in 1977 and brought up in Belfast. He studied visual communication at the University of Ulster, and graduated in 2001. Jeffers became passionate about making picture books when he began to understand the subtle relationship between words and pictures –‘that was what excited me. Until I got really involved, I hadn't realised how just a few words can totally change the meaning of a picture.’ Now living in New York, he works as a painter, designer, printmaker and installation artist, but remains very busy making picture books. Jeffers continues his story of the friendship between a boy and penguin in this fourth book about the boy. The boy and the penguin are great friends. They do everything together. But when the penguin decided that he had to learn to fly, he knew he had to do it on his own. The boy tried to help, looking up information and trying to connect the penguin with flying experts. But when the penguin figures out a solution, he heads off immediately to make it happen. The boy had no idea where the penguin went. The penguin finds himself alone and lost, unable to get in touch with his friend. When the boy discovers where the penguin is, the question is whether he will be able to reach him in time to see his friend succeed or fall.

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Listen to the CD version of the story. Could you record your own reading with narration, music and sound effects? Think of some speech bubbles for each of the illustrations. Could you turn this speech into a playscript with stage directions?

This book is written with the same charming simplicity of the earlier books. There is such a gentle and loving spirit to these books. Yet they still have a spirit of adventure and surprise. The friendship between the two characters is strong and true, supporting one another even if the other friend needs to do something on their own. This is a touching story of real friendship. Watch this advert for the book. Could you make your own advertisement to persuade others to read it? A story about possibilities and disappointments with a triumphant ending, all of which Jeffers captures through the beautifully expressive changing moods of his little boy. The Guardian

About Oliver Jeffers

The boy ‘rushed’ to find his friend. Try to find synonyms for ‘rushed’ to show different ways that people can move. Investigate and make different paper aeroplanes. What makes them fly? Could you have a paper aeroplane competition? which one will fly the furthest / longest? Which one is the best design?