**From the award-winning author of the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2024, I Am Rebel.**
**"The perfect winter book to snuggle up with and read together." The Herald**
**"A delightful comic celebration of community, full of surprises." Books for Keeps**
The penguin pack play all day long: ice-skating, building snowmen and throwing snowballs. And when the sun goes down, and the night grows cold and dark… “PENGUIN HUDDLE!” The penguins squeeze and squish together to stay warm and cosy. But one night, there is a freezing gale. And the next morning … the penguins are stuck! They are frozen together like a giant penguin ice pop. What a penguin MUDDLE! Nobody in the Antarctic can figure out how to unstick them. But Pipsqueak, the smallest penguin of them all, has a brilliant idea...
- A cosy and funny picture book for 3-6 year olds.
- Perfect for reading aloud at storytimes!
- For young animals lovers and fans of Zootropolis..
- Themes of friendship, community spirit and helping those in trouble.
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Ross Montgomery is a primary school teacher and he writes his books when he really should have been marking homework. Author of Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door and The Tornado Chasers, Ross has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and nominated for the Branford Boase Award. Perijee & Me was his third middle-grade novel. Ross lives in Brixton, Lond
More about Ross MontgomerySarah has many books, working for a large variety of publishers. With author Hiawyn Oram, she created the Orchard Books' character of Rumblewick - the witch's familiar - employed by a very unwilling witch. Both in picture book and fiction this character has sold worldwide and is under movie option with DreamWorks. Sarah also illustrated the 'Happy Ever After
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