. Dont Give Up, Josephine | Hans Wilhelm First published by Random House New York, USA Grolier Danbury, USA Carisen Hamburg, Germany Bogkiubben Rasmus: Copenhagen, Denmark ‘Sandviks Oslo, Norway Copyright: Hans WilhelmDont Give Up. Josephine! Ins fan to earn new things, especial when they are things you wally want to do ike See- Skating of riding 2 twosvhoel bike Bat there ‘are somethings that you reall must earn Snbether you want io et. Somes is hard, andl sou worry thet your fiends wll make fun of you fou ail that yu disap Point your parents: And believe mo, [under Stand whe that's enouah to make vou want 10 hho Josephine, the title penguin in Fels, Sho is very wood ata loa tings, there is eomothing ne that she rust learn—something that's very hard foe her todo well. Ste thinks shel never leat ‘Never! But never isa long time Your fiend, Se. WaldoDont Josephine ! Written and illustrated by Hans WilhelmJosephine was a young penguin who lived where ‘there was always ice and Sow. Buen in sume. “Many penains ved ther, but Josephine ent ‘most other tima with other animals, The oer imals knew so many exciting games, ler fiends the snow bunnies taught Josephine how toe skate, She was surprised it how easy twasfrst racing eros the ic, Josephine alsys uaa wonder time with her rend Whether twas bednnton“Tomorrow we Penszinoras sch ‘est teacher of peri ballet in the world “ut Dade, dont wa a lot want to "ou ate ging 0 sho ber fitted he marci iat evening Josephine’ mother and father had stall wit ber Mie kos how such yu eno of games nd fw good you ate at the,” mother, "But there are ote things yo mask eae”Finally he joined the class. a e But as hard as she ied et : } she was no very bod at being a butteryee After school Josephine dragzad her ballet shoes inthe snow all the way home She felt miserable "What a stupid thing” she thought. “Pretending to bea buttery”“The nent diy the elas did the dueling dance “The ducking dance is even harder than the botterfly dance,” she thoudht as she trudged ome Josephine was not very good at being duking sey sto “hatching od ngs 04 citer. j pod at Susie SeShe coulda wait forthe clas oer, and the moment it did she ran off She wanted fo be alone. Tilnever be any good at sehool Tm a failure. real Mop." she thoaght. She began shin and wo bieteare ra down hor beak “What will tll Mom and Dad? And my friends, they all lava at me ‘shen they bearer baa am! she cried. “The next dy Josephine tied her best to do the dance of the Moers Bu she fll moe ikea wiles weed,‘The next dey Madame Penginova sl, “Toy class, we are aing to be Snow bunnies.” She tuned fon the mse ana the Title penis lined ep. One, tw three. and one, 19, three, now begin the stow bunny be" sald Madame Pensuinov, Josepiine thou about her frends the snow tones, “Ten how 19 be snow bunny" she sa, ‘And she ws the best now tnmny in the lass‘Soon the othe ite penains were follwing Josephine Madame Pent ‘0 pleased that she also joined in the snow bunny ‘When school alle litle penguins wanted to walle with ‘up the wd work, You have areal talent."All the animals ved being dancers—all except the walrus. He hated his uta