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Penguin's Special Christmas Tree

Name: Penguin's Special Christmas Tree
Author: Jeannie St John Taylor
ISBN: 9781897073643

by Jeannie St John Taylor, Molly Idle

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Overview

Penguin really wants to win Santa's Best Tree Award, but he canít think of anything special enough to go on the top of his tree. Penguin's little Angel friend pitches in to help, and together they try all sorts of wacky ideas, including a confused frog, an energetic monkey, and a soggy snowman, but nothing works. Just as the team starts to get discouraged, Penguin realizes the answer has been in front of him all along. There's no better tree-topper than an Angel!

About the Author, Jeannie St John Taylor

"Jeannie St. John Taylor is a retired teacher, bestselling author, and two-time finalist for the Gold Medallion Book Awards, who lives in Portland, Oregon. She has written over a dozen books for children and their families including You Wouldn't Love Me If You Knew, Who Did It?, and Am I Praying?"

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School Library Journal

PreS-Penguin wants to win this year's "Santa's Best Tree" award, so he and his fuchsia-colored fairy friend try decorating with a frog, a tire, a snowman, and so on before he finally puts the fairy on the tree and wins the award. The color-saturated illustrations are whimsical if a bit manic, but the story is too slight and disjointed to be satisfying.-Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library