Little Penguin and the Mysterious Object

by Laura Driscoll, Tadgh Bentley

Little Penguin solves his first mystery in this hilarious new I Can Read! adventure by Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups author Tadgh Bentley. For new readers who are fans of Mo Willems’s Elephant and Piggie series and Adam Rubin’s Dragons Love Tacos . Little Penguin has found something. But he’s not sure what it could possibly be. Luckily, penguins are great detectives—and he and his friends are on the case! Will they be able to solve the mystery? Little Penguin and the Mysterious Object is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. 

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Animals, Humor

32 pages, Hardcover

Published September 29, 2020

About the author

Laura Driscoll is the author of numerous first chapter and beginning reader books, including We Are Twins and The Bravest Cat! She lives in central Connecticut with her husband and two children.

Reviews

[Rose Rosetree · Rating 5 out of 5]

Did you know that little penguins can make great detectives? Thrilling adventure, at least for "I Can Read Level 1.

Little Penguin has found something. But he’s not sure what it could possibly be. Luckily, Little Penguins and his friends are on the case!

HELLO!

By the very first page, readers of this book can solve this mystery. Meanwhile, they can have so much fun watching the creative pictures and thinking about somebody who is soooooooooo much less advanced than they... this book will be done in a twinkling.

FIVE STARS for an approach that can make a four-year-old feel worldly wise.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

An "I Can Read" Beginning 1 book, this has the same characters as the ones in "Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups" (which I'm not sure if I would have caught that if we hadn't read them back to back). The penguins discover a red bicycle and endeavor to figure out what it is, finally stumbling across it's use. They assume it's a boat or submarine because Little Penguin cycles it off of an iceberg and into the ocean before it sinks.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Penguin finds a bicycle, but he has no idea what it is. They use it as a back scratcher, a feather dryer, a mixer. Eventually penguin accidentally figures out how to actually use the bicycle. I like the artwork and the humor.

[Madison LibraryBookFamily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Penguin finds a mysterious object and brainstorms many uses for it before stumbling on the correct one. Silly, fun, and loved by all my kids.

[Jaime · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love Little Penguin so I thought this would be as much fun.

[David Haggett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, but a rather abrupt ending, I think....Thus, 4 stars.