Akron Public Library

Presents photographs and general information about puffins, including where they live, their physical characteristics, how they have adapted to their cold environment, their behavior, and how they raise their young.

"Look at the funny little penguin!" and "What a silly-looking penguin!" Hearing this all day long is enough to make any little bird angry, especially when he's NOT A PENGUIN! This is the story of a puffin who is upset that he's constantly mistaken for a penguin. He finally reaches his breaking point and goes on a rant about the many differences between the two. A little girl stops him in mid-speech because she does know the differences, and he listens...

Shows how children on a tiny Icelandic island work to rescue puffin offspring by helping them take their first flight.

Puffin and her mate fly over the ocean to an island where, each year, they have a baby in the very same burrow.

A narrator sets out to prove that there is nothing like a puffin but discovers that many things, including a newspaper and a helicopter, are a little bit like one and that a penguin is very much like a puffin.

Discusses the physical characteristics, life cycle, and ecology of Atlantic puffins, tufted puffins, and horned puffins.

A simple introduction to the physical characteristics, life cycle, and natural environment of the puffins living off the coast of Maine.

As his affectionate parents nourish and protect him, a plucky young puffin impatiently waits--but not without some reservations--for the day when he is "strong enough and tall enough and brave enough" to leave his nest on the rocky cliff-face and waddle off to the sea.

Presents an introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior and habitat of puffins.