Goodreads asked Stephanie M. Ward:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Stephanie M. Ward I had the opportunity to travel around the world for a year and within three months visited two very remote places, Antarctica and the Galapagos Islands. When I encountered Emperor Penguins in the extreme climate of Antarctica, I wondered why they never migrated somewhere with warmer weather. A couple of months later, when visiting the Galapagos Islands, I saw the darling Galapagos Penguins playing in the warm ocean waters and frolicking on the beach. And there was the premise for Wally the Warm-Weather Penguin: What if an Emperor Penguin found out there was a colony of penguins living in a much warmer place?

Full blog post (with loads of fascinating background information!) http://stephaniemward.com/2014/07/07/...

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