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Penguinaut! is a award-winning picture book written by Marcie Colleen and illustrated by Emma Yarlett.  It was chosen as the 2019 One Book Colorado Winner and over 75 000 copies of the book were distributed to every four-year-old in Colorado.

Penguinaut! is the story of a small penguin named Orville who has a big dream that's out of this world - literally.

Orville lives in the zoo with animal pals that go on big adventures. Orville is small and feels left out from his friends because he can't go on big adventures. In order to keep up, Orville decides to go on a huge adventure - build a spaceship and fly to the moon all by himself. He kept trying and trying until he finally did it and told his BIG adventure to his pals. Orville shows that we should never give up to achieve our dreams.

Note: I wasn't able to find a free e-book for Penguinaut!, so I read it from a YouTube storybook read-aloud.

Read-Aloud Video: https://youtu.be/eeErxcSIgzo

Goodreads Paid E-book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37822643-penguinaut

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Marcie Colleen is a former classroom teacher turned children’s book author. Her husband, Jonathan Lopes is a California-based artist who is known for creating realistic models sculptures, and contemporary artwork utilizing LEGO bricks as a medium. Marcie Colleen and her husband is living in San Diego, California. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Education or English and Language Arts from Oswego State University and a master’s degree in Educational Theater from New York University. She enjoys reading, running, watching baseball, and eating ice cream. Marcie Colleen is the award-winning author of "The Super Happy Party Bears" which is a chapter book series and the picture books, "Penguinaut!" and "Love, Triangle". In August 2021, Marcie joined Epic! Originals as a Senior Writer/Editor, creating comics and other prose for their digital platform.

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Marcie Colleen is a former classroom teacher turned children’s book author. She is the author of THE SUPER HAPPY PARTY BEARS chapter book series with Macmillan/Imprint, as well her debut picture book, Love, Triangle, illustrated by Bob Shea (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins), and Penguinaut, illustrated by Emma Yarlett.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Education of English and Language Arts from Oswego State University and a master’s degree in Educational Theater from New York University.

Although she will always be a Brooklynite at heart, Marcie lives in San Diego, California with her husband—artist Jonathan Lopes

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Marcie Colleen is a former classroom teacher turned children’s book author. She is the award-winning author of THE SUPER HAPPY PARTY BEARS chapter book series with Macmillan/Imprint, as well as picture books, LOVE, TRIANGLE, illustrated by Bob Shea (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins), PENGUINAUT!, illustrated by Emma Yarlett (Orchard Books/Scholastic) and THE BEAR'S GARDEN, illustrated by Alison Oliver (Macmillan/Imprint). Her latest book, SURVIVOR TREE, illustrated by Caldecott Honor Winner Aaron Becker (Little, Brown) celebrates the real life story of a pear tree who survived the September 11th attacks and received FOUR STARRED reviews!
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She is the author of THE SUPER HAPPY PARTY BEARS chapter book series with Macmillan/Imprint, as well her debut picture book, LOVE, TRIANGLE, illustrated by Bob Shea (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins), and PENGUINAUT!, illustrated by Emma Yarlett, to be published by Scholastic in 2018.

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