Cover art for the book Puffins! In the foreground, an Atlantic puffin looks right at you. Behind that bird are a whole bunch of small puffins, doing puffin things: splashing in the water, slipping on seaweed, walking on the rocks, preening, greeting each other, pooping. It’s a regular puffin party!
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.
On the edge of the sea,
There is a nesting island as loud as a city,
Where two puffins mate, burrow, and lay their egg.
They splash into the ocean
And dodge nearby predators,
Searching everywhere to find food for their hungry puffling.
Follow one adorable Puffling as she eats, grows, and learns how to survive on her busy, bustling island in this thrilling and action-packed nonfiction tale.
⭐️ "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
(Roaring Brook Press, 2026)
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