Go Jojo Go!

Jojo the penguin just can't wait to go to sea, but first she must learn to swim! A delightful picture book for children ready to explore their world - with photographs of the gentoo penguins on Australia's World Heritage listed Macquarie Island. Jojo the gentoo penguin was born on an island in the Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and Antarctica. From her nest she can see the beach, and she just can't wait to go to sea. 'Am I ready yet?' she asks. 'Not yet, little Jojo. You have to learn to swim.' When her down becomes a shiny penguin coat, and she can swim across the biggest rock pool, she is ready at last! Flippa-flap, snippa-snap, go Jojo go! Tessa Bickford spent two summers on Macquarie Island, where great numbers of penguins, seals and seabirds come ashore for breeding.

Tessa Bickford grew up by the Great Barrier Reef and spent several years working on boats on the reef in Far North Queensland and Indonesia. Her passion for marine life and the natural world took her to Macquarie Island, in the Sub Antarctic, where she worked as a Fur Seal researcher. In the summer months, thousands of penguins, seals, and sea birds come to breed on Macquarie Island, and Tessa found herself working on one of the island's busiest beaches! Jennifer Castles has also created stories for Tiny: A Little Dog on a Big Adventure (with Steve Otton) and A Song for Lorkie (with Dean Bowen).