One Day On Our Blue Planet: In The Antarctic

by Ella Bailey

Overview

From breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with this curious penguin chick.

In the latest volume of Ella Bailey’s picture book exploration of the daily lives of baby animals, we head to the ice shelf to meet a young penguin chick. What does she and her family eat? How many brothers and sisters does she have? What do they do for fun?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909263673
Publisher:	Flying Eye Books Ltd.
Publication date:	03/22/2016
Series:	One Day On Our Blue Planet
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,077,623
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD720L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Ella Bailey is an illustrator and writer who focuses on creating charming characters and character-based illustrations, particularly for stories and children’s books. Bailey’s style is playful and engaging, resulting in stories that are charged with imagination and will undoubtedly captivate any young reader. She lives in Nottingham.

Editorial Reviews

Bailey covers the basics in a tone that's informative but delighted by the improbabilities of penguins.

The New York Times Book Review - Maria Russo

03/21/2016
This follow-up to 2015’s One Day on Our Blue Planet... in the Savannah spends a day with an Adélie penguin chick that has just reached the age when she can swim in the Antarctic Ocean: “She cannot fly, but in the water she is as swift and as graceful as any bird in the sky.” Working in a frosty pastel palette, Bailey shows the penguin traveling in search of food, snacking on krill and squid, while avoiding a predatory sea lion. Bailey’s crisp, posterlike images evoke midcentury children’s books while capturing a sense of polar magic in watery spreads full of orcas, petrels, seals, and other creatures. Ages 3–7. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Selected for the CBC's Winter 2022 Showcase: Wild Is the Winter

"Part of a stylish new illustrated series devoted to the daily lives of young animals […] Bailey covers the basics in a tone that’s informative but delighted by the improbabilities of penguins. Her friendly, big-eyed creatures look as if they’re having a blast."
—The New York Times

"Illustrator Ella Bailey’s sweet and lively introduction to the creatures that inhabit the wild and remote Antarctic is filled with a surprising variety of species. […] Kids will have fun following the Adélie penguin chick’s adventures in the Antarctic Ocean."
—American Scientist, STEM Books for Young Children

"This lovely follow-up to In the Savannah (2015) continues a promising series introducing ecosystems to very young readers and listeners. […] An appealing introduction to Antarctica that appropriately fosters a child's sense of wonder without adding a layer of worry about its future."
—Kirkus Reviews

"Every glorious double-page spread is in full color, showing animals hunting for food and exploring their surroundings. Vibrant drawings on the endpapers identify 19 birds above the Antarctic ice and 17 mammals and fish below. Children will have fun finding these species as the chick encounters them in this excellent introduction to this polar region."
—Booklist

"Bailey’s crisp, posterlike images evoke midcentury children’s books while capturing a sense of polar magic in watery spreads full of orcas, petrels, seals, and other creatures. "
—Publisher’s Weekly

"This is the way all science should be taught. […] One Day on Our Blue Planet … in the Antarctic is an absolute winner. The illustrations are stunning. […] It won’t be us who will stop global warning. It’ll be our kids. A book like this, so beautifully describing a world that needs saving, might be just the thing to convince them to do it."
—The Globe and Mail

"Adorable, child-friendly, cartoony illustrations introduce us to all sorts of sea life, including a warty squid porpoise, Antarctic krill, leopard seal, and humpback whale. This is a fun introduction to the Antarctic for young audiences, with an animal kids already love: Penguins!"
—Books For Kids

From the Publisher

04/01/2016
PreS-Gr 1—This follow-up to the author's One Day on Our Blue Planet…in the Savannah introduces young readers to animals and their habitat. Representational drawings, visual unity, and winter hues fill each page with frozen settings of pinks, blues, grays, and whites. Each spread describes the natural life of this region through the waddling adventures of an Adélie penguin chick. The informative narrative pairs simple sentences with a bounty of authentic illustrations, introducing the penguin's journey from her young beginnings through the moment she sets out on her own into the Antarctic ocean. "She cannot fly, but in the water she is as swift and as graceful as any bird in the sky…. She travels many, many miles each day in search of food…and deep under the ice where a colorful world lies hidden." The images burst with reds, oranges, and pinks as the penguin swims under the ice to gain access to "plenty of krill, fish, and squid to eat." The endpapers depict life above the ice in the Antarctic and under the ice, which will serve both curious learners as well as beginning researchers. VERDICT A good choice for picture book and informational text collections about the region.—Melissa Smith, Royal Oak Public Library, MI

School Library Journal

2016-02-02
After a last breakfast with her parents on a frozen coast, a young Adélie penguin spends a long summer feeding in the cold ocean, followed by an even longer dark winter resting on the ice until the sun rises the following spring. This lovely follow-up to In the Savannah (2015) continues a promising series introducing ecosystems to very young readers and listeners. The gentle story is set directly on full- and double-page spreads filled with black, white, and gray animal life and the blue of the ocean water. When the young penguin takes off into the ocean for the first time, the curves of the displaced water and the penguins' backs emphasize the birds' grace in their underwater world. Among the many animals on each page, this chick is clearly identifiable by her blue eyes and tuft of baby fluff, which sharp-eyed readers will see her losing on the next-to-last spread. Among the many very similar penguins the two splotches of brown on her back and tail will also help readers find her. Thoughtful design includes endpapers identifying the various Antarctic creatures that can be found on the pages and an Antarctic-centered globe on the title page. An appealing introduction to Antarctica that appropriately fosters a child's sense of wonder without adding a layer of worry about its future. (Informational picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews