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Cute Blue Flower Print

Peanut the Penguin

Now Available

-2022 Book of the Year Award, Creative Child Magazine

-Purple Dragonfly Book Award 1st Place and Winner

-Red Ribbon Winner, Wishing Shelf Book Awards

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Peanut is a little penguin with a problem. He has a beautiful singing voice and loves to sing to the other penguins on the shore, but he only wants to sing at night when the other penguins want to sleep. Instead of making them happy, he makes them annoyed. After some disappointments, Peanut discovers a solution that makes all the penguins, including Peanut himself, happy.

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Cute Blue Flower Print
Cute Blue Flower Print
Cute Blue Flower Print
Cute Blue Flower Print

About the Author

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Aruna Maharaj-Lepore was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Trinidad (and Tobago). The daughter of entrepreneurs, Aruna’s path was clear. After earning her MBA, she co-directed the business with her mother.

 

During her studies abroad, however, she met her future husband, moved to the U.S. and eventually began a family. Once motherhood took a hold of her, she hung up her corporate hat and stayed at home to raise their children. It turned out that motherhood would be the experience that would bring her a satisfaction she never knew existed. It was this awareness that brought out Aruna’s creative side.

 

She used her appetite for story-telling and writing, her love of painting, and her children’s undying belief in her, to create her first multi-award winning picture book, Peanut the Penguin. The story reflects her softer side, having, herself, grown up in a loving home. The vibrant illustrations reflect the influence of growing up on a kaleidoscopic island.

 

Although Aruna did not expect to one day write and illustrate a children’s book, she certainly found a passion in doing so. She already has plans for creating her next book. Stay tuned.

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