The Emperor's Egg

This book tells the habits of the male and female emperor penguin after the female lays her egg. The illustrations are beautiful and help you really be able to see what the penguins lives are like. There are footnotes on some of the pages that might help answer some of the questions that children

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might come up with while reading. I really enjoyed learning about the lives of these amazing creatures.

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Summary:
This story is about the Emperor Penguin or the Daddy Penguin and how he survives throughout the winter while he has to take care of the egg he carries. 2 months later the penguins reunite once the baby penguin hatches.

Personal Reaction:
I really liked this book because it is very detailed

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on how the penguins take care of each other throughout the winter on a level child can understand

Classroom Ideas:
1. I could use this book in a winter section of teaching and could focus on penguins by making a craft about penguins.
2. I could also have my class draw/write a story of what it would be like to be a penguin having to survive the Antarctica winter.

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The Emperor’s Egg tells the story of what the male Emperor penguins endure to ensure the safety of their unborn during the difficult winter months in the Antarctica.

I found this book to be absolutely precious, a perfect combination of the author’s written word along with the illustrator’s

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creative and breathtaking pictures. Together, the reader actually feels as though they are on the incredible journey with the father penguins.

Classroom extensions include having the students create their own penguin out of construction paper. Another extension would be to have the children locate Antarctica on the globe.

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This is a great book to use when teaching the life cycle of a penguin. It addresses how emperor penguins devote their time to the egg and what is done while they await for it to hatch. The text is easy to read and the illustrations are done amazingly. They are very engaging. The reader can

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understand what is happening just by looking at the pictures. I also like how at the beginning of the book, there is an introduction, which states that there are seventeen different types of penguins, but this text will only be addressing one. This is a good thing for kids to know. I have noticed that when reading a book about a specific breed and species, they think that the kind discussed in the book is the only one, which is not the case. This text clarifies that issue.

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This reminds me of Nicola Davies books. I love Nicola Davies books and this is just as good in my opinion. Fun and well told.

This is a cute and informative book. It tells how Emperor penguins take care of their eggs until they hatch. It is written with a light tone that I think children will really like. Also, it is very interesting to read about how long it takes and what goes into caring for such an egg. I think it

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would be a great book for a children's science lesson.

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This book was about emperor penguin culture. This book addressed how they care for their babies, eat, and work together. I used to book to introduce the letter P to my students. I knew the book was too long when I first looked at it, so I paraphrased for the read aloud. I felt that this book would

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have been a better product had the author not used so many words. There seemed to be a lot of vague information. In many places, there was text that anticipated for the next page. For example, one page would say “but wait... what's that shape over there? It can't be. Yes!”, which I thought was unnecessary. I foster predictions whenever possible during read alouds, so this was language found its way naturally into the experience. The words, however, might be useful to someone who isn't familiar with reading to young children. I personally did not feel that they needed to be there. Another negative aspect to reading this book to preschoolers was how the text was printed. When teaching children in PK, the concept of text serving the purpose of communicating information is a tough skill to teach. This book had some words in different font, different sizes, and sometimes printed in a wavy line. While I can see this being appropriate for a skilled reader, I found this to be distracting for my students. What I did like were the illustrations and the content. We had read a Science Spin with the children that explained how male emperor penguins took care of the eggs while the females spent the winter hunting and gaining weight. This was an interesting topic for the kids because it challenged typical gender roles. One child said “my mom feeds me dinner”, and one said “no, the mama sits on the egg to keep it warm, not the daddy”. This created an opportunity for me to explain to them that not all animals work the same way we do. My students found this to be very interesting. They especially loved learning about how the mother penguin throws up for the baby penguin (cue “ew!” and “gross!”). This read aloud led to a “waddling race” as a gross motor activity for which the children had to balance an Easter egg on the tops of their feet while waddling towards the next teammate. Outside of the story being too long to be read throughout for a read aloud, this book worked well in my classroom. The children had many questions and the pictures were very telling. They were able to predict as long as I eliminated a few of the phrases, which is a great exercise for preschoolers. While I would not hesitate to use this book again, I would be interested to see if there is another book out there with just as much content, but less “creativity” with how the text was printed.

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The book is a good example of an informational book because it teaches the life cycle of the Emperor Penguin. It also gives facts about their environment, the differences between males and females and their roles. It's such an interesting book and it gives such good information.

I would use this

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book to teach the life cycle of a penguin and also to teach gender roles among penguins and compare and contrast it to humans.

the media used is colored pencil.

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I love this informational text for many reasons! I liked how it was written in a form of a story. It takes the reader on an adventure from the time the egg was hatched to how a penguin grows up. I also liked how the book had text features like a diagram explaining and showing the difference in size

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of a baby penguin to a adult full grown penguin. The text also highlights and explains vocabulary words like that a baby penguin is called a chick. Pictures are very colorful and engaging for the reader especially on the page where it explains how and why the penguins slide down hills on their stomachs. The big idea is to explain to the reader the life of a penguin from when it hatches to when it becomes an adult.

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Genre: Informational
This book brings Antarctica to life! It is a great book for teachers to use with younger student who seem to have a spark for interest in knowing more about animals, and specifically animals from Antarctica! This would be a great book to use during a unit study as well.

Summary
This book is a great informational book of the penguin! This books begins with the egg when it hatches to an adult full grown penguin. This book also is great with the vocabulary and some of their skills.

Personal Reaction
This book is illustrated well. I love how the story begins from an egg

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to adult penguin!

Classroom Extension:
1. I would have the class break up into group and create a portion of the penguins life on a timetable using art supplies
2. I would have other animals that hatch from an egg and compare their life cycle

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