Cover For Book: Haole The Penguin

Haole The Penguin
Oil on Canvas
24" x 36"
By Emily McBride

This painting was commissioned for the cover of a book called Haole The Penguin. It's an adorable book geared for elementary and middle school aged children, and it's about a penguin (Haole) who is an outcast and 'different' from all the other penguins. He's tired of just fishing, fishing, fishing all the time, and tired of being made fun of by the others. So, one day as he's off wandering, he loses track of time as the sun is setting, and he gets chased by a k-whale (a killer whale). He is swimming as fast as he can possibly go, and he gets to the surface and goes flying out of the water, through a wave, and to his astonishment, he is on top of the wave, gripping it with his wing, and surfing! This one time accident turns into a love of surfing, and then to an expansion of his world far beyond 'the berg' (the iceberg where he has lived all his life) and gloomily wasting all his days fishing.

It's definitely worth the read, even for an adult. Hopefully the book will be out soon ~ I'll let you know where you can buy it.