Book Review

The Puffins Are Back! is a wonderful book by Gail Gibbons. It has great pictures that the author created with pencil, watercolors, and black ink. The book gives accurate scientific information. The author knows a lot about puffins because the birds live on an island near home in Maine.

I learned that puffins can live to forty years and mate when they are five years old. The puffins live at sea and they come to shore to lay their eggs. To make a burrow the puffins use their sharp beaks to peck the ground and use their webbed feet to push out the loose dirt. In early May the female puffin lays one large egg. I learned about the scientists who study and help the puffins.

I'd like to read The Puffin Are Back! again and again. I think everyone would like this book.

~ JoAnn Bourque, Hawthorne School
"Read, Write & Win!" 2004 2nd Place / 4thGrade