The Puffins Are Back!

The Puffins Are Back!
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1991-04-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0060216034

A simple introduction to the physical characteristics, life cycle, and natural environment of the puffins living off the coast of Maine.

Flight of the Puffin

Flight of the Puffin
Author: Ann Braden
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 198481608X

One small act of kindness ripples out to connect four kids in this stirring novel by the author of the beloved The Benefits of Being an Octopus. Libby comes from a long line of bullies. She wants to be different, but sometimes that doesn’t work out. To bolster herself, she makes a card with the message You are amazing. That card sets off a chain reaction that ends up making a difference in the lives of some kids who could also use a boost—be it from dealing with bullies, unaccepting families, or the hole that grief leaves. Receiving an encouraging message helps each kid summon up the thing they need most, whether it’s bravery, empathy, or understanding. Because it helps them realize they matter—and that they're not flying solo anymore.

The Puffins Are Back

The Puffins Are Back
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0823441636

The beloved Atlantic Puffin was nearly extinct, till some enterprising scientists came to its rescue... Gail Gibbons introduces readers to the fascinating lives of puffins and puffin conservation. Puffins along the coast of Maine were once hunted to near-extinction. Now, through a careful breeding program, scientists eagerly await the puffins' return each year to hatch their young. With cheerful illustrations and clear text, Gail Gibbons explains the conservation program and the life cycle of this amazing bird. According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons, "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." She has published more than 100 informational titles, all fully vetted by experts,. Her many honors include The Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award and the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Award.

Project Puffin

Project Puffin
Author: Stephen W. Kress
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0300213670

Project Puffin is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had nested on nearby islands until extirpated by hunters in the late 1800s. To right this environmental wrong, he resolved to bring puffins back to one such island—Eastern Egg Rock. Yet bringing the plan to reality meant convincing skeptics, finding resources, and inventing restoration methods at a time when many believed in “letting nature take its course.” Today, Project Puffin has restored more than 1,000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands. But even more exciting, techniques developed during the project have helped to restore rare and endangered seabirds worldwide. Further, reestablished puffins now serve as a window into the effects of climate change. The success of Dr. Kress's project offers hope that people can restore lost wildlife populations and the habitats that support them. The need for such inspiration has never been greater.

The Puffin Plan

The Puffin Plan
Author: Derrick Z. Jackson
Publisher: Tumblehome, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781943431571

Fifty years ago, a young ornithologist named Steve Kress fell in love with penguins. After learning that hunting had eradicated their colonies on small, rocky islands off the coast of Maine, he resolved to bring them back. So began a decades-long quest that involved collecting chicks in Canada, flying them to Maine, raising them in coffee-can nests, transporting them to their new island home, watching over them as they grew, and then waiting--for years--to see if they would come back. This is the story of how the Puffin Project reclaimed a piece of our rich biological heritage, and how it inspired other groups around the world to help other species re-root in their native lands.

Nothing Like a Puffin

Nothing Like a Puffin
Author: Sue Soltis
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763636177

A narrator sets out to prove that there is nothing exactly like a puffin but discovers that many things, including a newspaper and a helicopter, are a little bit like one and that a penguin is very much like a puffin.

Murder With Puffins

Murder With Puffins
Author: Donna Andrews
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312978860

In an attempt to get away from her family, Meg and her boyfriend go to a tiny island off the coast of Maine. What could have been a romantic getaway slowly turns into disaster.

Puffling Patrol

Puffling Patrol
Author: Ted Lewin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Atlantic puffin
ISBN: 9781600604249

Ted and Betsy Lewin travel to Iceland to learn about the "Puffling Patrol," a group of children who rescue lost puffins and return them to sea.

A Circus of Puffins

A Circus of Puffins
Author:
Publisher: A First Book of Collective Nou
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781760680701

This is a puffin! It's wearing a leotard. Can you guess why? A group of puffins is called . . . A circus of puffins! Introduce the idea of collective nouns to young children with this fun lift-the-flap book. Open the flap to reveal a funny scene that illustrates weird and wonderful collective nouns for animals that swim!