As most authors and their readers will tell you that while the completion of any quest is certainly important, even more essential is the journey one embarks on to achieve that goal. So it is with a penguin named Ingrid who longs to take to the air in Scott McDermott’s delightful children’s book, “A Penguin’s Quest.”
Ingrid, who lives with her parents in a penguin colony in Antarctica, is not like other penguins. Though she dutifully waddles daily to and from the ocean for fish, she spends much of her time gazing at the birds overhead and thinking how wonderful it would be if she could fly. The feeling of being able to soar through the air and see the world from an entirely new perspective is something that she’s been dreaming about for almost as long as she can remember. However, whenever she tries to tell anyone about this, she’s always laughed at and continually reminded that penguins cannot fly.
