How High is the Sky by Anna Milbourne and Serena Riglietti

How High is the Sky? is a heartwarming story about an inquisitive young penguin, Pip, who goes on a journey to answer the question, how high is the sky? 

I was lucky enough to have this book sent to me from the publishers, Usborne Publishing, via Toppsta, and as it's currently December and we're all feeling rather wintery, a book about a penguin was very apt. The illustrations throughout the book are beautiful. The detailed, animated style looks like it has been painted on the pages in cold blues and greys, and a lot of thought has gone into each and every picture. 

The journey of Pip is as you'd expect from a children's book aimed at 3-5 year olds, and unfortunately, the question of 'How high is the sky?' is never actually answered. However, I don't think that that matters in this book, Pip goes all the way to the moon and can't find where the sky ends, so he goes home to his bed and concludes that the sky goes on forever, so there'll always be plenty for him to explore. A cosy end to a lovely bedtime story. 

I won't say that it's my three year old's favourite book, but she did enjoy it. It also ended up with a late night search of google to find out how high the sky really was, (I have my own inquisitive little penguin it seems). For anybody else who is curious, not defined, but there is an imaginary line around 100km up which is often used as a marker.