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The Emperor Penguin's New Clothes

by Janet Perlman · 1994

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Penguins populate this retelling of the familiar tale about two scoundrels who fool a vain emperor and most of his subjects into thinking that they are creating a magical cloth.

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picture bookschildrens

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