The word " Penguin " first appears in the 16th century as a synonym for " Great Auk.

The Little Penguin was first described by German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster in 1781.

In late 2010, the first volume of Pokey the Penguin was released in book form.

Due to translations into English, the first being done by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., and other translations such as in Everyman's Library and Penguin Classics Gerald's works on Wales are well known today.

In 1981 Jackson and Livingstone co-wrote The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the first book in the Fighting Fantasy series, but following an instruction from publishers Penguin to write more books " as quickly as possible ", the pair wrote subsequent books separately.

And Another Thing ... was released on 12 October 2009 ( the thirtieth anniversary of the first book ) in hardback by Penguin Books in the UK, and by Hyperion Books in the U. S.

At first, The Penguin mostly served as a vehicle to comment upon the absurdity of human affairs ( e. g. " All I care about is fish, matey ") and as a sounding board for Reg, but became increasingly politicised.

It was first published in 1967 in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was released in paperback by Penguin in 1970.

The instrumental composition " Sobre las olas ( Over the Waves )" written by Mexican songwriter Juventino Rosas and first published in 1888 can be heard in the film's score during The Cold-Blooded Penguin segment while Pablo the penguin is sailing to the Galapagos Islands.

Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula for the centenary of the latter's first publication.

On 5 September 1996, Irving filed a libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher Penguin Books for publishing a British edition of Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust, which had first been published in the United States in 1993.

The show, conceived by and originally directed by Joe Brancato and originally staged by Penguin Rep Theatre, Stony Point, NY, was invited to give six performances during the 2012 Montreal International Jazz Festival, making The Devil's Music the first play ever presented in the music festival's 30-year history!

* Clayborne Carson et al., editors, Eyes on The Prize Civil Rights Reader: documents, speeches, and first hand accounts from the black freedom struggle ( New York: Penguin Books, 1991 ).

The first, simply entitled The Good Life was published in 1976 by Penguin Books, and this novelised the first series.

* July 30 – Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the first mass market paperbacks in Britain.

* Launch in the United Kingdom of Penguin Classics under the editorship of E. V. Rieu, whose translation of the Odyssey is the first published in the series.

The play became the first book published in the Shavian alphabet when it was released in that orthography by Penguin Books of London in 1962.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles later made publishing history by being one of the first ten books to be published by Penguin Books when they were launched on July 30, 1935.

The book was first published by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. in 1956 and in paperback by Penguin Books in 1959 and has remained in print ever since.

On June 14, 2012, Gravity's Rainbow was published by Penguin in ebook format for the first time.

* August 7 – Janice Brown pilots the MacCready Gossamer Penguin on its first solar-powered flight.

Today, the company is probably best known abroad for its development / industrialisation and production of the first passive IR homing anti-ship missile of the western world, the Penguin, starting delivery in the early 1970s ( when KDA was part of KOG's predecessor Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk ).

* Burne, A. H. ( 1950, reprint 2002 ) The Battlefields of England London: Penguin ISBN 0-14-139077-8

In 2003, Penguin Books issued a reprint version of the original Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer with new artwork by Lisa Papp.

* Robert Graves, The Greek Myths Penguin 1955 ; ISBN 0-918825-80-6 is the 1988 reprint by a different publisher.

* Burne, A. H. ( 1950, reprint 2002 ), The Battlefields of England London: Penguin ISBN 0-14-139077-8

* Roger M. Poole, Explorers House: National Geographic and the World it Made, 2004 ; reprint, Penguin Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-14-303593-0

British publisher Allen Lane launched the Penguin Books imprint in 1935 with ten reprint titles, which began the paperback revolution in the English-language book market.

* Koestler, Arthur, ( 1959 ) The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe, Penguin Books ; 1986 edition: ISBN 0-14-055212-X, 1990 reprint: ISBN 0-14-019246-8

New York: Proscenium Publishers, 1986, reprint of Penguin Press, 1972.

* The Compleet Molesworth, 1958 ( collection ) Molesworth ( 1999 Penguin reprint )

* Robert Palmer ; Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta, Penguin reprint ( 1982 ) ISBN 0-14-006223-8 ; ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6

This dominance over the paper supply put Penguin in an especially strong position after the war as rationing continued, many of its competitors were forced to concede paperback reprint rights to Penguin for this reason as well as the popular prestige the company enjoyed.

* Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973 ; revised reprint 1990 with introduction by Michael Tanner

1979 Penguin reprint ISBN 0-14-048146-X

* Penguin: 1832, Harmondsworth, 1962, 233 pp, Paperback, ISBN 0-14-001832-8 ( 1973 reprint )

** Penguin, 2005 paperback reprint: ISBN 0-14-303622-X

( Signet, New York, 2001 ), 272 pp. ; reprint Penguin, 2010 ISBN 978-0-451-53158-2

** Molesworth ( 2000 Penguin reprint ), ISBN 0-14-118600-3

** Molesworth ( 2000 Penguin reprint ), ISBN 0-14-118600-3

* The Pocket Book of Father Brown ( 1943 ) and many other reprint collections, including The Second Father Brown ( 1959 ), Ten Adventures of Father Brown ( 1961 ), The Penguin Complete Father Brown ( 1981 ), The Father Brown Omnibus ( 1983 ), The Best of Father Brown ( 1987 ), The Annotated Innocence Of Father Brown ( 1989 ), Father Brown Crime Stories ( 1990 ), Father Brown of the Church of Rome ( 1996 )

* A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II, Penguin Books, reprint edition, 1996, pp. 284, ISBN 0-14-025184-7.

* Volcano and Miracle: A Selection from the Journal Written at Night, Penguin Books, reprint edition, 1997, pp. 288, ISBN 0-14-023615-5.

* The Island ; Three Tales, Penguin Books, reprint edition, 1994, pp. 160, ISBN 0-14-023279-6.