Puffins! by Maria Gianferrari

★ "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

Biographical Note:

Maria Gianferrari is a proud bird-nerd who is thrilled to have seen Atlantic Puffins and other sea birds at Eastern Egg Rock Island. She's the author of these bird-y books: You and the Bowerbird and Hawk Rising, both published by Roaring Brook Press, as well as Whoo-Ku Haiku. She loves backyard birding from her kitchen window perch in Massachusetts, though she lives too far from the sea to see puffins.

Maris Wicks is a writer and illustrator of science comics, as well as a self-proclaimed gigantic nerd. She has written, drawn, and colored comics for First Second Books, New England Aquarium, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as well as Spongebob Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics.