![]() ![]() The colors on the puffin’s bill are repeated in the figures and vivid backgrounds throughout. ![]() ![]() Kolar’s eye-catching, full page, digitally created cartoons feature a merry-looking puffin in every opening, interacting with the objects or bright-eyed creatures of comparison: a newspaper, a pair of jeans, a goldfish, a snake, a shovel, a helicopter, a penguin. Soltis’ relaxed, forthright words and sentences build a momentum of anticipation and discovery-first an initial and then repeated assertion that there is “nothing like a puffin,” followed by a series of comparative observations in which it turns out that a particular animal or item actually is in some way (two legs, hatches from eggs, swims) perhaps a little like a puffin. Several essential facts about puffins emerge from this engaging, cheerful and astonishingly simple taxonomic exercise, filled with humor and a dynamic conversational style both visual and textual. ![]()
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