Description
All the other wild creatures have left the Antarctic. The wind is too cold and the sun does not shine all the way through the long, dark months of winter. But the father emperor stays at the back of with thousands of other fathers. Each and every of them takes care of an egg . . .
Follow as a penguin grows from egg to adulthood
in the coldest place on earth
In the course of winter, within the coldest place on this planet, the mother emperor penguin lays her egg. The father rolls the egg onto his feet and helps to keep it warm. He doesn’t eat and even move for two whole months. In spite of everything the egg hatches.
Stunning collages of hand-painted paper and clear, evocative text capture the beauty and drama of the icy Antarctic world and certainly one of its most fascinating and endearing inhabitants.