A Puffin's Year [Hardcover]

Katherine Zecca (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 20, 2007 | Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up

In wonderful color illustrations and entertaining, informative text, author/illustrator Katherine Zecca tells the story of the life cycle of one puffin family, showing children how and where puffins feed, how they raise their young (called pufflings), and how they defend themselves.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Through the story of one puffling's first year, this handsome picture book brings close the amazing facts about Atlantic puffins. The clear text and bright, textured mixed-media art tell how two puffins come in from the sea, mate on an island, and burrow underground to prepare their nest for their single egg. They take turns keeping the egg warm, and when it hatches 41 days later, they raise their chick, feed him live fish, and then watch him leave and fly out with the other pufflings into the big ocean world. Then there is the amazing fact that two or three years later, he will return to the island and continue the cycle. Caught by the exciting science, many young readers will heed the appended conservation call by a National Audubon Society director to keep the oceans safe from spills and global warming. Hazel Rochman
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Down East Books (February 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089272742X
• ISBN-13: 978-0892727421
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #386,072 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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