The Penguin's Moon Garden

Pip is a small penguin chick with a sleek black back, a white belly and a soft grey downy head, living on a wide snowy plain where the ice sparkles like sugar. Every night he waddles to the edge of the ice to watch the moon's silver light dance on the frozen sea, and he calls the moon his night-light. One moonlit night he notices a soft blue glow twinkling beneath the ice and, when his friends insist that ice cannot glow, he sets out alone to discover what is hidden there.

What Pip finds is a secret garden of moonflowers growing under the ice, blooming only when the moon is full and glowing like little blue lanterns. A large spotted seal named Luna explains how the flowers depend on clear ice and still water to survive. Pip promises to watch over the garden, but he still has much to learn: he picks one of the flowers to show Luna and discovers that a moonflower loses its magic once it is taken from where it belongs. When a strong wind cracks the ice above the garden, Pip must race for help and find out what he and Luna can do together. This gentle tale by Ebru Mina TOMURCUK can be read on Onlinemasal Com.Tr.