The Penguin Lessons: What I Learned from a Remarkable Bird

✍ Scribed by Michell, Tom

• Book ID: 109180604
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101967416

✦ Synopsis

A unique and moving real-life story of the remarkable bond between a young teacher and a penguin, this book will delight readers who loved Marley & Me, Dewey the Library Cat, The Good Good Pig, and any book by Jon Katz.

"I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive, because, as of that instant, he had a name, and with his name came the beginning of a bond that would last a lifetime."

In 1975, twenty-three-year-old Englishman Tom Michell follows his wanderlust to Argentina, where he becomes assistant master at a prestigious boarding school. But Michell's adventures really begin when, on a weekend in Uraguay, he rescues a penguin covered in oil from an ocean spill--cleaning the bird up and attempting to return him to the sea. But the penguin refuses to leave his rescuer's side. "That was the moment at which he became my penguin, and whatever the future held, we'd face it together," says Michell in this charming memoir. He names...