What is the first sentence of the book The Alternate Penguin?

Deep in the Antartic wastelands, within one of the numerous penguin colonies there was a penguin who was different. He did not look like the other penguins; he did not think like other penguins. He was an anomaly. For a start, he wore horned-rimmed glasses that he found lying on the wreckage of an ancient whaling ship that floundered and was stuck in the ice close to where he lived. All the other penguins mocked him for wearing glasses. What they did not know, was that he loved reading the books found on the whaling ship.