National Geographic marches with penguins.

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Last summer's surprise hit movie "March of the Penguins" (now out on DVD) has been captured in two volumes from National Geographic Books--a lavishly illustrated hard cover tabletop edition as well as a delightful softcover children's version, both telling the inspiring story of the emperor penguins' yearly Antarctic odyssey and the long months of endurance, self-sacrifice, and love as they raise a new generation of chicks.

Everything about "March of the Penguins" is extraordinary--the birds themselves, their arduous trek in single file through the world's most forbidding landscape of blue-white ice swept by blizzards and gale-force winds, their elaborate courtship, and the almost unimaginable ordeal each penguin couple endures as they safeguard a single, precious egg.

Now, in a visually dramatic adult companion book to the movie (already the second most popular documentary in American motion picture history and the highest-grossing natural history film of all...