Penguin Books

Philadelphia Flyers Road Trip Starts. The Philadelphia Flyers are entering their biggest road trip of this season, starting off in Buffalo Tuesday night followed by a trip into Canada Thursday facing a young Toronto Maple Leafs squad before heading to the Boston Gardens. If ever a road trip offered the Flyers a unique opportunity to make up ground in the wild card standings, it's this upcoming three-game road trip to Buffalo, Toronto and Boston which begins Tuesday night at the Sabres.…

Mario Lemieux Changed the history of ice hockey, the city of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Mario Lemieux also known as Super Mario or Mr. 66 made pittsburgh a place where football and baseball wasnt the only important sports in the city he added hockey to the market. Super Mario was one of the greatest ever and this is why. Mario Lemieux was a small boy coming out of Montreal, Canada. Lemieux was born on October 5,1965 and soon…

“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take!”- Wayne Gretzky. This was one of Wayne Gretzky’s amazing quotes, and will be passed on forever, and . He is a big inspiration to me. Wayne Gretzky, also known as “The Great One,” was and still is “the greatest ice hockey player ever.” When he was 13 he had more than 1,000 goals scored. As he got older and older he won more and more trophies, scored tons of goals, and broke a lot of records. After he retired he held 61 NHL records, and…

Maybe you think the Winnipeg Jets are garbage but listen here, listen good, and listen up. Pause your 21 savage, tell your boys to simmer down, and put down your phone. I’m going to explain to you why the Winnipeg Jets will be the most established team in the NHL in the next couple of years. The Winnipeg Jets are a great team because of the different skill sets of the players on the team. You probably heard the Winnipeg Jets are straight up trash but please hear me out. The Jets currently have a…

After 11 years with the Islanders, Garth Snow might finally sent packing. After not making any trades at the deadline and not re-signing one of the three keys players at the deadline, there has been an outcry from Islander fans to fire Snow. Snow had made so good moves in his year’s with the islanders. In his first year as the GM he was named NHL Executive of the Year for 2006–07 by Sports Illustrated. Some good move he made are: Drafting John Tavares, Shane Prince and a 7th round pick for a 3rd…

off in what seemed to me as a sprint, but in reality was the waddle of a very happy penguin. I stopped for a fleeting second to admire the world around me. Rows among rows of the thing I loved most, books. My tiny body gazed up at the shining lights that surrounded me, practically squealing with delight at the sight of the thousands of books that covered the walls. Unfortunately however those thousands of books I could not read yet, so I waddled over to the flamboyantly painted red fire truck…

advice, and have morals, which teach you lessons. Even if you read a book for the hundredth time, when you finish it, it might teach you something new, or a new way to look at it. It gives different point of views. So then you might ask why read books? Well, reading books improves your imagination, it helps expand yourself as a person, and of course simply to have fun, after all reading is just another…

act like he knows a lot about books even though he really doesn’t. This makes him look even less smart. The second Conflict is man versus man which is a struggle that occurs between two characters. This conflict occurs between the man and Mr. Clark. The man’s admiration for Mr. Clark turned into jealousy toward him, which caused a struggle between the two. Although Mr. Clark did not do anything, the man starts to dislike Mr. Clark and because of that he buys the book Mr. Clark was saving up…

fiction author, expresses the importance of libraries in the above quotation, stating that access to the public library essentially “cures” us of our nescience, pessimism, and prejudice. Bray describes books—to which the library card is a passport—as windows into new mindsets, ideas and perspectives; books are described as conduits by which the library broadens…

course the picture books were the best. I mean, at that age, I didn’t really have the visualization skills to see the book on my own just from words, versus how I am today. So, I loved having the pictures in books as a visual aid. I was reading things like “Beauty & the Beast, The Jungle Book, Tarzan, Cinderella, and The Lion King.” I can’t say how many times I read those books over and over. I went on to read more and more of those books, but this time they had some chapters. Books such as…