The Many Adventures of Pengey Penguin - Hardcover

John Burns

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0977422704 ISBN 13: 9780977422708

Publisher: San Francisco Story Works, 2005

Synopsis

a wonderful book.

About this title

About the Author

JOHN BURNS is the author of, The Many Adventures of Pengey Penguin, a charmed animal adventure beginning in the frozen lands of Antarctica. It quickly paves a magical roadway through the mountain ranges and rain forests of South America.

How Pengey and the two friends he'll meets and travel with over the Caribbean and how they end up in New York City is all part of a wondrous tale, suitable for all us kids in the 'wonder years'.

John Bunrs is a full time writer. He is the only author ever awarded four coveted REMI awards in a single awards night, in the entire history of the Huston International Independent Film Festival. He is also well known for his 400 page, crime/thriller, The Glass Alibi.

Burns was the creative force of the original RadioMystery.com. He produced and directed for the stage at the once famous, Bannam Palace Theater in San Francisco. His script writing career includes his work with the Executive Producers of, Catch Me If You Can and, I-Robot and Don Bluth, director of, The Secret of NIHM.  

Burns is a former cable TV Executive, producing the first cable production featuring the Academy Award Winning films of Toho Studios and director Akira Kirosawa.

Burns was educated at The School of Contemporary Music, Boston Massachusetts and U.C. San Francisco. He studied screenwriting with Professor Richard Walters, UCLA, and with screenwriting legend Shane Black (Predator, Iron Man Three). He is a graduate of The Hollywood Film Institute.

John Burns is married and splits his time living in the historic Bohemian district of North Beach, San Francisco and the beautiful desert oasis of Palm Springs,California.

From the Back Cover

On a night alive with the lights of the Aurora Australis, a distant and abandoned weather station nolds the only hope for a young emperor penguin who lies close to death on the most remote ice sheet in Antarctica.He didn't leave his colony to be curious although curiosity was certainly part of his nature.He didn't mean to go exploring, but an orphan in the coldest part of the world has few choices. This night would undoubtedly be his last chance for survival.He had no idea what destiny held for him as he courageously trudged toward it, exhausted from the cold and rentless winds that battered his determination.It's true enough to say that necessity causes the biggest changes in our lives. Sometimes we have no choice but to open our eyes and follow our hearts.This is the story of a little penguin that follows his heart.He doesn't mean to steal your heart, but chances are he will.

From the Inside Flap

On a night alive with the lights of the Aurora Australis, a distant and abandoned weather station holds the only hope for a young emperor penguin who lies close to death on the most remote ice sheet in Antarctica.
Pengey Penguin didn't leave his colony to be curious although curiosity was certainly part of his nature.
He didn't mean to go exploring, but an orphan in the coldest part of the world has few choices. This night would undoubtedly be his last chance for survival.
He had no idea what destiny held for him as he courageously trudged toward it, exhausted from the cold and relentless winds that battered his determination. It's true enough to say that necessity causes the biggest changes in our lives.
Sometimes we have no choice but to open our eyes and follow our hearts.
This is the story of a little penguin that follows his heart.
He doesn't mean to steal your heart, but chances are he will.

Edition details

• Publisher: San Francisco Story Works
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977422704
• ISBN 13: 9780977422708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: James Coles
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198