Describes the parental behavior of Emperor penguins, focusing on how the male keeps the egg warm until it hatches and how the parents care for the chick after it is born.
Presents a story about how the mother emperor penguin must leave her egg and travel a number of miles in order to bring back food for her new baby chick.
Collects "Penguins and Antarctica" and "Eve of the Emperor Penguin" in which Jack and his younger sister Annie continue to help Merlin the magician search for the secret of happiness by traveling in their magic treehouse to Antarctica, a wasteland where the penguins may know what to do.
