Description: Follow a young puffling's growth from hatching to adulthood and learn about the bustling and precarious world of Atlantic Puffin City in this imaginative nonfiction picture book from dynamic duo Maria Gianferrari and Maris Wicks.
Brief description: Maria Gianferrari is a nature and animal lover who lives with her family in Massachusetts. She has written multiple books for Roaring Brook Press, including To Dogs With Love, You and the Bowerbird, Coyote Moon, Hawk Rising, Hello Goodbye Dog, and Bobcat Prowling.
Review Quotes:
★ "Wicks's cheerful palette, comprised of bright oranges, blues, and greens, creates the island's cozy chaos, with numerous seabirds constantly squawking and flittering about." -- Horn Book Magazine, starred review
"A buoyant view of a natural cycle, loaded with visual and verbal appeal." -- Kirkus Reviews "An appealing dive into the life and environment of puffins for classroom or individual reads." -- School Library Journal "Honest, hopeful, and brimming with visual drama, this fondly rendered puffin primer offers budding naturalists an instantly accessible introduction to wildlife resilience." -- Publishers Weekly "With expressive illustrations and inventive graphic elements, this narrative-driven nonfiction brings the puffin life cycle vividly to life." -- Booklist