The Persevering Penguins and Pals: Propelling One Another to Success

By Emma Cheng, Moorea Friedmann and Jasper Friedmann

The Persevering Penguins and Pals: Propelling One Another to Success An engaging motivational book by kids for kids to embrace diversity, inclusion, and what it means to be successful global citizens. The authors are three amazing cousins who were between 7 and 11 when they started creating these characters and have gone on to become #1 Amazon Bestselling and award-winning authors and illustrator!

Crafted primarily for upper elementary and middle school students to read, this book is a charming animal story about penguins and other creatures who help children learn that being determined, working with others for a common goal, and embracing differences help us all to succeed.

It is another beautiful day in Patagonia as a colony of penguins snuggles on the iceberg, they call home. When catastrophe strikes for Little Milo and his family, it seems that all hope is lost.

The penguins must band together as a team and wait for the right time to implement their plan. When one plan doesn't work, the penguins brainstorm to create another one. But it turns out they are not the only creatures with big challenges. Through perseverance, helping others, leading, inspiring, networking, and growing, the penguins and their creature friends must somehow find a way to overcome their obstacles, no matter how difficult.

Being a kid today isn't easy! Give your children the tools to overcome life's challenges with a fun and inspiring story for independent readers!

● The chapter book version of bestselling and award winning "Meet the Persevering Penguins and Pals" with the full stories of each of the different animals as well as how they all come together and must help each other to succeed.
● Includes access to discussion guide on what it means to face and overcome challenges to help parents and educators in schools, camps, early childhood centers, and after-school programs talk with children about the topics in the book to help them process and absorb the lessons.
● Includes access to the best-selling and award-winning authors’ and illustrator’s creative process. It’s sure to inspire other young children to follow their dreams!
● Endorsed by Carmen Fariña, former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education as the "Beautifully illustrated animal stories created by children for children."
● The perfect children’s book about diversity for independent readers age 8-11 and reading aloud to ages 4 and up.
● Loved by teachers, parents, grandparents, family members and kids alike!
● Social emotional learning and reading proficiency made fun for your little ones!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Aug 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781480879034

Emma Cheng

Bestselling authors Moorea Friedmann (age eleven) and Jasper Friedmann (age nine) and bestselling illustrator Emma Cheng (age thirteen) are New York City middle and elementary school students who appeal to their young audience with their animal stories and beautiful illustrations. They seek to inspire other children to turn their ideas into reality and embrace the key principles exemplified in this book series to propel themselves and others to success.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-7902-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-7901-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-7903-4 (e)

Archway Publishing rev. date: 8/23/2019

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Contents

CHAPTER 1 The Persevering Penguins

CHAPTER 2 Otters for Others

CHAPTER 3 The Leading Lions

CHAPTER 4 The Inspiring Iguanas

CHAPTER 5 The Networking Nightingales

CHAPTER 6 The Growing Gerbil

About Our Inspiration: Po-Ling Ng

About the Authors and Illustrator

Authors and Contributors

Acknowledgments

To our parents, for being there for us from our first steps taken to our first book published, and to our grandparents, for keeping every piece of our work close to their hearts.

Advance Praise for

The Persevering Penguins and Pals:

Propelling One Another to Success

Beautifully illustrated animal stories created by children for children. At this stage in their lives, children and adolescents may face many emotional challenges and need support in facing these issues. This book gives them discussion points to begin group and individual dialogue to face these challenges. The adults in their lives can also read it to provide conversation and provide positive reinforcement for action. Building character traits is as important as building academic skills.

—Carmen Fariña,

former chancellor of the New York

City Department of Education

Preface

by Betty Ng

Mommy, we should write an animal-stories book for kids, based on the PO-LING principles, which you and Po Po write about in your book! my nine-year-old daughter, Moorea, excitedly suggested to me. Each letter should represent a different animal, and we can tell a story for each of the animals that will teach kids about the PO-LING principles.

In 2015, during the process of writing an acceptance speech when I was honored as a corporate trailblazer, I realized that my own mother’s name, Po-Ling (Moorea and Jasper’s grandmother, Po Po), represented an amazing framework that offered key considerations for propelling yourself and others to success. My mother, widowed at the age of thirty-two, was left to raise four children on a social worker’s salary. Instead of giving up, she persevered for her purpose and vision for her authentic self by obtaining two master’s degrees and devoting her life to the community, helping everyone from young children to senior citizens. Fast-forward four decades and more than a hundred awards later, my mother is one of the most successful people I know. In 2014, she was invited back to Beijing by the Chinese government and presented with an award for her impact on Chinese people living and working overseas. May 24, 2017, was