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Posted December 29, 2015 by Bec J. Smith

Can P.I. discover the identity of the Bell Tower Bandit? When some bird sabotages the beautiful tower bells, P.I. Penguin is called in to help...

Posted April 6, 2016 by Rae Redford

I love to read. I always have and always will. Darting in and out of fantastical worlds, fighting dragons, befriending dragons, saving the world...

Posted January 20, 2017 by Holly O'Donoghoe

Photograph by JJ Harrison(jjharrison89@facebook.com)Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Lets Learn About Australian Little Penguins Scientific Name: Eudyptula...

Posted September 6, 2017 by Bec J. Smith

Last Thursday, the Bec J. Smith team (Rebecca, Kaylie, and Joshua) set about planning their P.I. Penguin Christmas Special. I’ll tell you a...

Posted December 28, 2014 by Bec J. Smith

In this, the first book of the P.I. Penguin series, P.I. Penguin is on the hunt for Bella Bottlenose’s missing bottle. Was it stolen by a...

Posted June 22, 2016 by Bec J. Smith

“I just think that people are going all in on fixing what they are bad at instead of going all in on extenuating what they’re great...

Posted March 14, 2017 by Rebecca Laffar-Smith

We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming release of our first Middle Grade Fiction book.Zany Circus: Paradox by Nanci Nott and Xanthe Turner...

Posted February 17, 2016 by Rebecca Laffar-Smith

We’re so excited to be able to release this whole new look with our 2016 webdesign and site upgrade. We’ve added some great features...

Posted November 5, 2016 by Bec J. Smith

Did you know, each month Aulexic runs a competition inviting children to guess P.I. Penguin’s real name. Now, we’re not really looking...

Posted April 16, 2017 by The Literate Child Podcast

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Posted April 13, 2016 by Dawn Allcot

If you’re the parent of a dyslexic child, you know well the struggles of reading time. For dyslexic readers, it can be a torturous struggle...

Posted January 22, 2017 by The Literate Child Podcast

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