The Penguin Book of Penguins

The world's best-loved bird from the world's best-known publisher - what's not to like?!

Stephen Moss, author of The Bird Biography Series

Penguins are at once the most iconic of birds, and the least familiar, to those of us who have never visited the frozen south – this beautifully written and illustrated book is just what is needed to change the latter. Packed with information, from the purely scientific to the broadly cultural, it is admirably thorough but always utterly readable, and brings to vivid life an extraordinary avian family

Matt Merritt, Editor of Bird Watching

Simply wonderful! If you like feeling joy, you'll love this book. How have we managed without it?

Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read a Tree

Wedge-winged waddlers on land; sublime swimmers in southern seas, penguins are some of the most popular birds in all the world. This ace, accessible celebration of all the species - from Kings to Emperors, Gentoos to Macaroons - deftly mixes natural history and human history to explain both their enduring appeal and the many challenges they face

Jon Gower, author of Birdland

Always work with penguins. They are electrifyingly charismatic. When you run out of things to say or film, just cut to a penguin. The audience love them. It’s the Penguin Rule. Glad to see Penguin have embraced it in style

Dan Snow, author of On This Day in History

A lovely paean to penguins. Fretwell’s fascination for these birds is infectious and you come away from reading this warm, encyclopaedic book full of wonder for the penguins and the unique ways these birds have adapted to survive in some the most extreme places on the planet

James Macdonald Lockhart, author of Raptor

Beguilingly illustrated by Lisa Fretwell

Horatio Clare, The Spectator

Celebrate 90 years of a publishing powerhouse with an ode to one of the world’s best-loved birds, written by the polar scientist Peter Fretwell and illustrated by his artist wife Lisa

Harper's Bazaar

In a perfect match of form and function one of the world’s favourite publishers delivers the last word on one of the world’s favourite birds. Peter Fretwell, the lead scientist at the British Antarctic Survey and his wife Lisa Fretwell, an artist and teacher, have produced a charming, beautifully-illustrated handbook on all things penguin. Rich with science, history and first-hand encounters this is the perfect book for the penguin person in your life

Daunt Books

Peter Fretwell writes with concision and a lightness of touch which make absorbing complicated facts about penguins a joy

Horatio Clare, The Spectator

The publishing company Penguin, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary, has produced a new book – about its mascot bird. The Penguin Book of Penguins is written by Peter Fretwell, a cartographer and scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, and illustrated by his artist wife, Lisa, who's drawings enliven The Penguin Book of Penguins

Country Life

A beautiful book!

Dotty McLeod, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire