Puffin, 9781406379327
Hardcover
Discover puffins’ secrets: burrows, bright bills, and incredible fish feats!
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  • Hardcover

    32 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2022

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Summary

The Amazing World of Puffins: A Nature Storybook

Everyone recognizes the puffin with its black-and-white feathers and brightly coloured bill. But how does the puffin live? What happens down in its burrow? And how on earth does it carry all those fish in its bill?

Discover the amazing world of the puffin in an exciting collaboration between author Martin Jenkins and illustrator Jenni Desmond. This new title in the celebrated Nature Storybook series is packed with interesting …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781406379327
ISBN-10:1406379328
Series:Nature Storybooks
Author:Martin Jenkins, Jenni Desmond
Publisher:Walker Books Ltd
Imprint:Walker Books Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:32
Release Date:1 September 2022
Weight:270g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

This is a book which would sit well in a school library or book area in the classroom – a useful bridge between storytelling and fact finding. Puffin will certainly catch the eye of a younger reader and provides the perfect balance between entertaining and educating. * Just Imagine *

About The Author

Martin Jenkins

Martin Jenkins is a conservation biologist. He worked for ten years for World Conservation Monitoring Centre, writing about a range of conservation issues. Since 1990 he has worked freelance for organizations such as WWF and a number of UN bodies concerned with conservation and the environment. Martin has written many children’s books, including Emperor’s Egg, winner of the Times Junior Information Book of the Year Award and Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back, which was shortlisted for the same award. Martin lives in Cambridge.

Jenni Desmond is an illustrator, artist and picture book author, working from a studio in a rattling railway arch in east London. She graduated with distinction from the Masters in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art (APU). Her first picture book won the Cambridgeshire “Read it Again” Picture Book award 2013. She has also illustrated Joy, written by Yasmeen Ismail and On the Night of the Shooting Star, written by Amy Hest.

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