by Oliver Jeffers

ISBN: 9780007240371

Published: 2006-06-01

This is a wonderful story about the meaning of loneliness and the importance of friendship. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row boat on a journey to the South Pole. But when they get there, the boy discovers that maybe home wasn't what the penguin was looking for after all!