Pizza-making begins promisingly (\u201cMix. Roll. Pull\u201d), but tossing the dough brings disaster: \u201cSPLAT.\u201d The pair are determined (\u201cAgain,\u201d \u201cpull\u201d), but alas, the final step is always followed by \u201cSTICK,\u201d \u201cSPLAT,\u201d and \u201cPLOP,\u201d whether it\u2019s Penguin or Owl throwing the pie to the sky. Draped in dough, they finally have a joint light bulb moment\u2014time for a trip to the pizza parlor to enjoy pies topped with fish and mice. In the second tale, after a snowfall, each friend wants to make a snow-self, but Penguin\u2019s creation collapses. Penguin is sad, so Owl nobly repurposes bits of the snow-owl to create a snow-penguin. Penguin thoughtfully adds owl features to one side, so they end up with a bilateral Snow-Owl-Penguin. The final tale, \u201cHike,\u201d is propelled by opposites: far\/near, up\/down, dark\/light, and more. These prepositions barely hint at the drama within the illustrations: The pals fall into a cavern, plummet over a waterfall while rafting, and encounter an angry mama bear. Nevertheless, by sunset the friends are safely home, regaling each other with memories of their exciting day. Madan\u2019s exceedingly simple text\u2014often, just a word or two per panel\u2014tells a dynamic story, complemented by enchanting cartoon illustrations of the big-eyed, adorable duo. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pizza-making begins promisingly (\u201cMix. Roll. Pull\u201d), but tossing the dough brings disaster: \u201cSPLAT.\u201d The pair are determined (\u201cAgain,\u201d \u201cpull\u201d), but alas, the final step is always followed by \u201cSTICK,\u201d \u201cSPLAT,\u201d and \u201cPLOP,\u201d whether it\u2019s Penguin or Owl throwing the pie to the sky. Draped in dough, they finally have a joint light bulb moment\u2014time for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}