""This retelling of a Japanese fairy tale [in which a girl who is born from the middle of a watermelon has no belly button] is full of sweetness and stars an engaging pint-size heroine,"" said PW.

Narrated by an antic pack of penguins, poems like "Antarctic Anthem" ("Antarctica! Antarctica!/ Where winter days are dark-tica") humorously teach readers about life in an emperor penguin colony. Ages ...