Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure: Book 1

By Author / Illustrator

Alex T. Smith

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

Publisher

Hachette Children's Group

ISBN

9781444932065

Format

Hardback

Published

07-09-2017

Synopsis

From the international bestselling creator of Claude, comes a brand new hero - Mr Penguin, adventurer and penguin.

Indiana Jones meets Hercule Poirot in this new Alex T. Smith series with plenty of slapstick humour, mystery and adventure. Highly illustrated throughout with a striking black and orange design.

It has been weeks since Mr Penguin's last adventure and he's been stuck at his desk, twiddling his flippers ever since. That is until the phone rings!

Mr Penguin and Colin (a spider and Mr Penguin's silent right hand man) are called in to find the missing treasure somewhere in the Museum of Extraordinary Objects. The quest finds them solving secret codes, fighting ferocious beasts, eating fish finger sandwiches and travelling deep below the museum to a lost jungle...

Praise for Alex T. Smith's Claude series:
'Illustrated with humour and elegance.' Sunday Times
'Quirky illustrations with plenty of humour.' The Metro

Claude won the 5-9 young fiction Sainsbury's Children's Book Award, was selected for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, the Richard and Judy Book Club and is soon to be a TV star on Disney Junior with 52 episodes airing in 2017. Alex T. Smith is a World Book Day Illustrator.

Follow Alex at http://alextsmith.blogspot.co.uk and https://twitter.com/Alex_T_Smith

Reviews

I have a very enthusiastic army of Claude fans at my school so I anticipate great excitement about the arrival in the library of Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure. They are sure to be drawn in by the highly appealing look of this book with its orange, black and white colour palette and the delightful opening illustrations. I can guarantee that by the time they meet Mr Penguin himself, sporting an arrow-pierced adventurer's hat and carrying a satchel that contains his snack of choice: a fish finger sandwich, they will be well and truly hooked. In this, the first of Mr Penguin's adventures, he and trusty sidekick Colin (a kung fu expert and spider) are called upon to track down the missing artefacts from the Museum of Extraordinary Objects. There is excitement and peril along with plenty of laughs as we follow our heroes through this delightful adventure. A more demanding and lengthy read than the Claude series, this book still has short chapters and a format that will be reassuring to the independent reader needing to bridge the gap to longer texts. I can't wait to find out where Mr Penguin and Colin will find themselves next! 203 pages / Ages 7-9 / Reviewed by Emily Marcuccilli, school librarian