Coogan has to go from sniping misanthrope to quietly earnest educator and liberal campaigner, as well as growing into his role as a reluctant penguin dad. He gradually wins over the audience just ...

In Stephen Frears’s Philomena, it was Judi Dench, now it’s a small penguin. In The Penguin Lessons, Coogan plays Tom Michell, a jaded English teacher who arrives at an exclusive boys’ school ...

If we go by the proper definition, literacy simply means “the ability to read and write.” That’s all it takes to be considered literate. This brings us to another important term—literacy rate.

Endpapers — the sheets connecting a hardbound book’s cover to its first and final pages — have been a crucial element of ...

No-one does mild-mannered, gently acerbic cinema for the matinee crowd quite like the British, and the new Steve Coogan movie, The Penguin Lessons, is a no exception. Based on an unusual real-life ...

In this movie, he works with children - well, teenage boys - and an animal. Well, a bird. He more than holds his own against the kids, but what can you do when you're up against a penguin?

The Friends of the Goldston Library, a steadfast supporter of local literacy efforts, has recently been named the recipient of a generous grant from Penguin Random House and United for Libraries.

A Humboldt penguin believed to be the oldest of its species in the world has celebrated its 37th birthday in Cornwall. Paradise Park in Hayle said Spneb marked the occasion on Wednesday with a ...

Phil, a 9-month-old Magellanic penguin from John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, was crowned the March of the Penguin Madness champion. He beat Nio and Marley to win the bracket. Other Michigan penguins ...

Steve Coogan gives quite a tender performance in The Penguin Lessons – it’s just a pity about the surroundings.He plays a teacher who has checked out, in this whimsical comedy-drama based on a ...

CHICAGO - The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has awarded the 2025 Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award to Tess Botkin, Metropolitan (OK) Library System, and Alicia Rogers ...

Sponsored by Penguin Random House, this Award recognizes collaboration between school librarians and teachers in the instruction of social justice using school library resources. A simple question ...