Now who doesn't love a penguin? so when Every Penguin in the World by Charles Bergman came out I had to have this. This book is so lovely and with great photo's throughout I loved this book but it did need some more photo's of baby penguins. A very enjoyable book.

Every Penguin in the World by Charles Bergman may not have every penguin that exists but it sure has almost all of them. Besides the amazing photographs, it has a wonderful message that even a child understands. I read this allowing my grandchildren to explore the photographs which they loved! The realized by the end that conservation is vital for these wonderful birds to thrive. They also wanted to know what was going to be done to help the penguins.

My copy is a digital ARC but members of the family are pushing for hard copy of this book to be bought. It is the kind that adults and children can look through many times. Of course, the kids had favorites: especially ones of parents with offspring and the fairy penguins. As for the text it was easily readable for adults. Perhaps more than the elementary children here wanted to read but very interesting to me.

I guess this would be what we called a coffee table book, that one would pick up to enjoy any time that they had a few minutes. It is certainly one that would be picked up often.

An ARC of the book was given to me by the publisher through Net Galley which I voluntarily chose to read and reviewed. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Beautiful photographs but ultimately a disappointing book. I was hoping to get a book about penguins. Instead I got book that was about the quest of the author and his wife to see all the penguin species. I would have greatly preferred for it t9o be about penguins and only a little bit about him.

I was just in Antarctica last month, logged into NetGalley when I came back to look for a new read, first thing I see, Every Penguin in the World. Well, you can't go to Antarctica and not fall in love with penguins after seeing them in their natural habitat -- not just their Chaplinesque slapstick on land but their beautiful and amazing Esther Williams synchronized swimming in the water, where they truly transform from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Charles Bergman's extended photo essay on penguins goes beyond Antarctica to visit every penguin species that exists across the world, almost but not quite exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. He photographs and writes about the penguins, of course, with beauty and passion, and he also writes about his and his wife's personal journey, tells tales about their travels, and discusses the fate of penguins in a changing world.

Being primarily a photographer, Bergman's prose is not perfect -- particularly a tendency toward repetition. But his clear fondness for his subject and the indelible impact his quest has had on his life and his wife's are what is really important here, so still an enthusiastic five stars from me -- obviously not an objective review because I just has the same epiphianic experience with the Adelies, Gentoo and Chinnies that I visited, but really, how can you not love penguins?

They are hilarious, they are more intelligent than you ever imagined, they are so noisy and noisome that you'd never want them living in your backyard, they are the living embodiment of everything that is so awe-inspiring about the natural world and everything that we unfortunately do to endanger that world. And when you see them in open water, it's a whole new dimension.

Bergman does a great job of capturing all that and much much more in both his photos and words. Do yourself a favor, get a copy of this book, read it, don't just look at the pictures, but then keep it somewhere handy where you can go back and look at the pictures whenever the mood strikes you. And then book yourself on an expedition ship crossing the Drake Passage and see them for yourself in their own backyard.

I’m pretty sure this book doesn’t feature every single penguin in the whole wide world – you’d need more than just one book for that – but there are certainly a lot of penguins here! If you are interested in penguins, or if you’re just feeling down and want to look at pictures of penguins and read about penguins, then this is the book for you. Bergman’s narrative is super-enjoyable to read: it’s part travelogue, part journalism, part science writing but all penguins, all the time. And once you start reading about one sort of penguin, you just want to go through and read everything about all the penguins. All of them. Every penguin in the world!