Description: A lovable adventure story about a quirky, curious penguin who sets off to find something special somewhere out in this vast world. There once was a penguin living in Antarctica who was especially sensitive to the cold. Already fed up with the freezing weather, and tired of seeing the same endless snowfields and the same penguins day after day, our hero spent every day dreaming of living somewhere else, as someone else entirely. Eventually, the cold-sensitive penguin decided to leave the group and set off alone, convinced that if he just went a little farther, a truly amazing world would surely be waiting for him. Crossing icebergs and swimming through open water toward the distant sea, the penguin suddenly spots something astonishingly wonderful floating right in front of him. It's "truly a remarkable discovery" — something "so unique and stylish, and so wonderfully useful" that it seems absolutely perfect. So perfect, in fact, that no more adventure seems necessary. The penguin returns to the group and settles back in. But does he finally find happiness, free of all his worries? Not quite! The cold-sensitive penguin soon runs into a new problem, and the story ends with the clear sense that another adventure is just around the corner. A story full of humorous insight about the nature of adventure, and an artistic composition that grows more powerful the more it strips away. Polar explorer and author Huw Lewis-Jones has shared that, along with illustrator Ben Sanders, the most important elements in creating this book were "humor, simplicity, and artistry." The Penguin Who Couldn't Stand the Cold embraces a kind of minimalism — achieving maximum effect with minimal elements — and beautifully demonstrates how paring down words and images to their essence can create even greater artistic impact. "Ben and I have made several books together over the years. Our most recent, The Penguin Who Couldn't Stand the Cold, is our favorite yet! We share a similar sense of humor, a love of telling stories simply, and a pursuit of artistic illustration. We believe that less is more, so our storytelling is almost 'acoustic,' in a sense — we try to strip away as many words and images as we possibly can." — Huw Lewis-Jones Meanwhile, the striking fluorescent orange ink that appears — sometimes subtly, sometimes meaningfully — at key moments in the penguin's journey is clearly not just a stylistic choice to make a 'pretty' book. There could be no more intuitive color to symbolize the dreams and ideals of a quirky protagonist with a perspective all his own. The Penguin Who Couldn't Stand the Cold is a work brimming with humorous insight into the true nature of adventure, featuring delightful illustrations full of compositional strength and charm, and offering the unique joy and satisfaction that only a sensitive, simple picture book can deliver. This is a picture book to happily recommend not only to young readers and picture book lovers, but to anyone who has ever dreamed of living somewhere else, as someone else — anyone who carries their own little flash of fluorescent orange dream inside.