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Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure: Book 1

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Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure: Book 1 by Alex T. Smith

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By Alex T. Smith

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From the international bestselling creator of Claude, comes a brand new hero – Mr Penguin, adventurer and penguin.

Indiana Jones meets Hercule Poirot in this new Alex T. Smith series with plenty of slapstick humour, mystery and adventure. Highly illustrated throughout with a striking black and orange design.

It has been weeks since Mr Penguin’s last adventure and he’s been stuck at his desk, twiddling his flippers ever since. That is until the phone rings!

Mr Penguin and Colin (a spider and Mr Penguin’s silent right hand man) are called in to find the missing treasure somewhere in the Museum of Extraordinary Objects. The quest finds them solving secret codes, fighting ferocious beasts, eating fish finger sandwiches and travelling deep below the museum to a lost jungle…

Praise for Alex T. Smith’s Claude series:
‘Illustrated with humour and elegance.’ Sunday Times
‘Quirky illustrations with plenty of humour.’ The Metro

Claude won the 5-9 young fiction Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award, was selected for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize, the Richard and Judy Book Club and is soon to be a TV star on Disney Junior with 52 episodes airing in 2017. Alex T. Smith is a World Book Day Illustrator.

Follow Alex at http://alextsmith.blogspot.co.uk and https://twitter.com/Alex_T_Smith

Reviews

21 Aug 2025

It is fiction

I like Collin

I like how Mr penguin cares so much about fish finger sandwiches
But he has to give it to a crocodile

04 Aug 2025

This book was good and it was fun and funny

28 Jul 2025

It was quite creepy when Mr Penguin figured out that they were actually the brother thieves that had broken out of prison with only a few spoons. But I still enjoyed the book

22 Jul 2025

I thought the book was amazing because the characters where great and the story was about when an old museum had been robbed and mr penguin had to try and catch them i thought it was great and more people should love it

21 Jul 2025

Tells you about his adventure to find the missing treasure.

11 Jul 2025

I like Colin best because he is a super brave spider. I also like Gordon because he is a funny pigeon.
I would recommend the book to other people, as it is funny!

30 Jun 2025

This book was very fun to read as it was full of adventure and funny characters. I enjoyed it because the settings were very mysterious and there was lots of surprises in between. This book is amazing for people who love adventure stories.

18 May 2025

I loved this book because it has lots of adventure and is really exciting

26 Oct 2024

It was a great fiction story. I liked Mr Penguin & Colin. I enjoyed that Mr Penguin found the museum's treasure, it was the key that made objects not float around.

04 Aug 2024

It was amazing .It was brilliant .It was Err…amazing and brilliant

03 Aug 2024

I like how the characters are introduced.

22 Jul 2024

I like this book I dressed as the character as Edith for world book day

06 Jul 2024

Bit boring

06 Jul 2024

Ok

11 Jun 2024

It was funny.

30 Jan 2024

This book is the best out of the series. I loved the excitement and adventures that Mr Penguin gets up to. He is so funny but dumb at the same time!

13 Jan 2024

Friendship and adventures, my favourite mix.

26 Dec 2023

Ha what a plot, I mean I would never of able to solve this cunning misery!

19 Dec 2023

I've read previous books by this author so I was interested to see this series in my local library and give it a go.

This book contains adventure, determination mystery and a huge plot twist near the end. In this book, characters are totally unpredictable which make them funny and makes you more likely come across a cliffhanger. My favourite parts are when Collin the spider did kung-fu kicks, I found it hilarious.

06 Sep 2023

it was not what i was expecting, fun , i would it again

05 Sep 2023

I would recommend this book!
Please read on….

If you’re in Aventura you must read this it’s about a penguin and his friends goes on an adventure I rate it 4 out of 5 it is a very good Book

31 Aug 2023

I liked Mr Penguin's pet spider because he is Mr Penguin's launch pad when he's about to solve a mystery. This is a good story and is easy to read. If you like this then try Toto the Ninja Cat by Demot O'Leary

29 Aug 2023

The book was interesting and funny. My favourite part was when Mr. Penguin got to eat his fish finger sandwich.
It was a fiction book and I like Colin best. I would recommend this book to children aga 7-10.

15 Aug 2023

I rate 5 stars because is a mystery and when is solved you find it really confusing.

15 Aug 2023

crimey

11 Aug 2023

It was very adventurous.

10 Aug 2023

I liked the adventure and the twists and turns when nice people become bad people

09 Aug 2023

I like the secret jungle that's underneath the museum!

07 Aug 2023

I thought that this book was really funny. You see, I like books with lots of action and adventure and thrill and this book has all of it. Mr penguin is sometimes a bit dumb but he is also very good at focusing on what he is doing.

06 Aug 2023

A very good book. I enjoyed it.

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