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Synopsis
A photoessay about the children of an Icelandic community who band together every summer in order to save stranded puffin chicks from predators. By the creator of Penguins at Home.
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About the Author
Bruce McMillan has written and illustrated more children’s books set in Iceland than any other United States author. Going Fishing is his sixth to be set there, and his forty-third overall. He often summers in Iceland, though he lives in Shapleigh, Maine.
Bruce holds a B.S. in biology from the University of Maine and has received numerous awards and honors for his children’s books.
From School Library Journal
Grade 1-4-An extremely handsome photo essay that shows a breeding season in a colony of North Atlantic puffins on Heimaey, largest of the Westmann Islands off the southwest coast of Iceland. McMillan hangs his informative text on the framework of young Halla and her friends, who await the first flight of the pufflings with eager joy. Many of these fledglings fail to reach the sea on this maiden flight, landing in Halla's village below the cliffs. Here the children wait, armed with cardboard boxes and flashlights, racing to rescue the pufflings before they become prey for cats or dogs, or run over by passing vehicles. Staying up all night, sleeping late into the morning, the children spend two unusual weeks rescuing thousands of baby birds and releasing them to the sea. McMillan's crisp full-color photos record courting and nesting behavior of the puffins and the activities of the children waiting for and performing their rescues. A fine book to foster empathy in young people as well as to inform them, and to show them that children can make a difference in the world.
Patricia Manning, Eastchester Public Library, NY
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0395708109
- ISBN 13 9780395708101
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages32
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