Peg + Cat: The Penguin Problem

Peg + Cat

by Jennifer Oxley, Billy Aronson

Skiing past hurdles can be a problem when you don’t know your over, under, and in between. Peg and Cat to the rescue!

Peg and Cat are at the South Pole preparing to watch the ski race at the Animal Winter Games. Suddenly they spy the Penguins zooming downhill. CRASH! The Penguins apologize (“Snow problem,” says Cat), but it seems that there is a the Penguins keep slamming into things! So they all try again, with Peg shouting directions each time they come to a hurdle. "Go over! Go under! Go in between!" But the Penguins still have no clue, because they don’t know what over, under, and in between mean. Luckily, Cat points out some directional arrows to follow, and a problem is solved . . . for the moment. Now can anyone figure out how to keep the ice floe the Penguins have landed on from tilting?

Genres: Picture Books, Mathematics, Childrens, Animals, Juvenile

32 pages, Hardcover

Published September 13, 2016

About the author

Jennifer Oxley is an author, illustrator, television writer/director, and the recipient of multiple Emmy Awards for her work on Nick Jr.’s Little Bill and as co-creator of PBS’s Peg+Cat. Jennifer lives and works in New York City as an independent filmmaker and artist.

Reviews

[Candace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based on the television series Peg + Cat, produced by the Fred Rogers Company, this book teaches the meaning of over, under and in between. The pages are numbered by addition problems. The illustrations are interspersed with the text. A terrific teaching lesson for young readers learning the meaning of over, under and in between.

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

Peg + Cat travel to the south pole to watch the animal games, and become the coaches for four penguins, and teach them over, under, and between to help them win the winter ski games. This story also focused on adding numbers throughout the story.

[Tanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read aloud with PreK students! They LOVED this read aloud… they loved counting along with me and acting out over, under and in between! We all hoorayed for the penguins at the end and many kids commented on what a fun book it was!

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

There wasn't any math but there was still a problem to solve.

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun use of skiing penguins to learn position words. Ages 4-6.

[Jurene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this for teaching basic math concepts!

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[Cindy Mitchell *Kiss the Book* · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oxley, Jennifer Peg + Cat: The Penguin Problem, with Billy Aronson. Candlewick, 2016. $13.

Peg and Cat arrive at the Animal Winter Games just in time to help four penguins with a big problem – because they don’t know over, under, and in-between, they can’t ever finish the course. Peg and Cat to the rescue!

Oxley and Aronson hit all the right notes again with another problem-solving title. How can you go wrong?

Pre-K, EL (K-3) – ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
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[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book teaches children the concepts of over, under, and between in a fun and perhaps subtle manner, through skiing penguins who are prone to crash without the aforementioned instructions! However I feel like these are more spatial ideas than mathematical, so when the cover touted "with fun math activities!" I was expecting more. I did enjoy the page numbers written as equations, though! It did, however, intrigue me enough to want to check out the other Peg + Cat books.

[Teresa Reads · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book teaches "under", "over", and "in-between". Peg and Cat help some penguins get through a downhill ski course to compete in Animal Winter Games. It's simple, but cute. I really didn't get why there were complex math problems in the background of a young children's story, but other than that, a helpful book.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

♩ ♪ ♫ "Peg Plus Cat Nah-nee-nah-nah-nahh, Peg Plus cat nah Nah-nee-nah-nah-nahhhh" ♩ ♪ ♫ (watch the opening credit).... A fun math book without it being an obvious MATH Book. Even the page numbers are 4+1=5. I would almost want to keep the page numbers are 4+1=. We learned all about, over under, between ! Very useful skills

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute and useful teaching tool, this book features penguins who must learn the concepts of over, under, and in-between to avoid comically crashing into things. I did find the language and the story to be a bit clunky, however.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the crazy penguins. My daughter, the penguin, who is also a crazy skier will love this also.

[Miss Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Peg and cat are helping the penguins train for the skiing race of the animal games. Can they teach them how to go over, under, and around. Math themes. Preschool and up