The Nuns Go to Africa


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Recounts the adventures of seven nuns vacationing in Africa as they try to help two vacationing Santa Clauses find their stolen yellow car.




Penguin Island


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Penguin Island, published by Anatole France in 1908, is a comic novel that satirizes the history of France, from its prehistory to the author’s vision of a distant future. After setting out on a storm-tossed voyage of evangelization, the myopic St. Maël finds himself on an island populated by penguins. Mistaking them to be humans, Maël baptizes them—touching off a dispute in Heaven and ushering the Penguin nation into history. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.




Penguin Island


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Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations by Frank C. Pape Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó Anatole France's satiric classic, opens with a Christian missionary monk who accidentally lands on the island and mistakes the native penguins for people and baptizes them. This mistake causes a problem for God who normally only allows people to be baptized, so he resolves it by converting the penguins to people and giving them a soul. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).










The Nuns Go to Penguin Island


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On their yearly vacation aboard a red raft, the seven nuns discover an island inhabited by shipwrecked circus penguins.




The Listener


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Children's Book Review


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Issues for Apr. 1971- include separately paged section: Children's book review: occasional list, no. 1-