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Not so long ago in a little penguin town in southern 

Antarctica, there lived a young penguin named Ponce. 

Ponce and his mommy and daddy made their home in a cozy 

igloo near the icy water, and they were all very happy.

Ponce had many activities to keep him entertained 

in Antarctica. Besides eating lots of fish with his 

mommy and daddy, he loved to swim in the water 

with them. He always felt like he was flying! 

Best of all, his mommy and daddy loved to help 

Ponce make snow cones, and they would all eat them 

together on the back porch of the igloo. 

On especially snowy days, school would be 

canceled, and Ponce and his friends would have a 

day of fun. Ponce loved sliding down the slopes on 

his belly, making snowmen, and playing chase in 

the ocean. Whatever they did together, Ponce was 

always glad that he had such great friends to have 

fun with.

But after a while, Ponce began to get bored 

with his little Antarctic town. And not just 

bored. He began to get terribly, terribly cold. 

Now, Ponce knew that all a little penguin had 

to do to stay warm was huddle together with all 

the other penguins until the cold front passed. 

But when Ponce was in the huddle, he couldn’t go 

swimming in the water, or eat a snow cone, or 

slide on the slopes, or make a snowman. And 

these were some of Ponce’s favorite things to do. 

The fact that he couldn’t do his favorite things 

during much of the year made him bored, and he 

decided it was time for a change.

So Ponce went to his mommy and daddy and 

told them, “Mommy, Daddy, I’m going to move 

away. I don’t want to be cold anymore, and I 

want to be able to do my favorite things all of 

the time. I’m moving to Florida, where it is warm 

enough to do fun things all year long.” Ponce’s 

mommy and daddy told him they were sad that he 

had to go, and that they would miss him very much. 

But they said they hoped he would visit often, and to 

be safe and have fun.

The next morning, Ponce set out for Florida. It was a 

long and tiring journey, and by the time Ponce got 

there, the only thing he could think about was finding 

a delicious snow cone to cool him off. Thankfully, he 

found a truck that sold snow cones, and he ordered 

an extra large blue one. He waddled over to a bench 

and sat down to eat it. He looked down, and to his 

surprise, his wings were covered with a sticky, blue 

liquid. What was happening? He looked in his cup to 

find that his snow cone had gotten smaller. Sadly, 

Ponce finished what was left of his snow cone and 

thought of the snow cones he made with his mommy 

and daddy. This was not a good start to his new 

Florida life.

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