Playing with Penguins: And Other Adventures in Antarctica

Ann McGovern

Jun 2014 · StarWalk Kids Media

About this ebook

A unique diary format and colorful photographs make this book a magical and eye-opening journey to Antarctica. Readers witness dozens of amazing sights as seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl on a ship adventure, shared with her Grandmother.

About the author

"LOVE AND LOSS AND WIDE-EYED WONDER. ANN MCGOVERN SEES SO MUCH AND SPEAKS VOLUMES." -- Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, novelist, playwright, writer and illustrator of numerous children's books. Ann has embraced poetry after 45 years as a prize-winning author of more than 55 books for children, including the now classic Stone Soup and Too Much Noise. Her books in print number 25 million copies. A tireless traveler who has visited every continent, McGovern is always refueling ideas of place and purpose into her poems. And as a scuba diver, she writes about the underwater world of coral reefs from the Caribbean to China. Her 70 poems have appeared in more than 50 journals, including Confrontation, Georgetown Review, Nimrod, Rosebud and Fulcrum. Her poems have been printed in many anthologies and have won numerous prizes. She has been featured in many poetry readings at libraries, The National Arts Club, and coffeehouses in the USA and abroad. She says, "It's a challenging, heady experience to weave reflections, insights, sensations, thoughts and feelings into the many-faceted fabric of a poem."