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'Puffling begins as all puffins do, as an egg, hatching in summer. His doting parents, Long Black Feather and Big Stripy Beak, welcome him to the world and take turns to leave the burrow and go out hunting to bring him back food to eat. They warn him to stay inside the burrow at all times, as the ‘scary gulls’ are outside, watching for just such as morsel as a baby puffin. Puffling begins to grow, and to become impatient to grow up and go out into the big wild world outside, but his parents say that he should wait until his is ‘strong enough and tall enough and brave enough’, and then he will be able to make the trip all by himself along the cliff, jump off into the water and paddle away. Puffling is impatient, asking from time to time if he is ready for this moment. Only when he is strong enough (which he shows by paddling his feet and tall enough (by measuring himself against Big Stripy Beak) and brave enough (his parents listen to his heart) do his parents fly away and leave him. Puffling summons all his courage and makes the journey along the cliff, past the waiting gulls, which swoop! But they miss Puffling, and he leaps into the swell and finds friends in the ocean who will keep him company until it is time to come home.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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This is affiliated with Dr Laurel Cohn's Picture Book Diet because it contains representations of food and/or food practices.
Food depiction - Incidental
- Wildlife
Food types n/a Food practices n/a Gender n/a Signage n/a Positive/negative value n/a Food as sense of place n/a
Setting - Bush, beach, nature
Food as social cohesion n/a Food as cultural identity n/a
Food as character identity n/a Food as language n/a
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges Report 2009
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 53 no. 3 2009; (p. 4-10) -
[Review] Puffling
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Books Buzz , April no. 3 2008; (p. 12)
— Review of Puffling 2008 single work picture book -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 52 no. 1 2008; (p. 17)
— Review of Puffling 2008 single work picture book ; Lucy Goosey 2007 single work picture book ; Ruby Roars 2007 single work picture book -
Puffling
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 23 no. 1 2008; (p. 6)
— Review of Puffling 2008 single work picture book -
Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas
Linnet Hunter
(interviewer),
2008
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 23 no. 1 2008; (p. 4-6) Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas interviewed by Linnet Hunter about their new collaboration, Puffling
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Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2007/08 vol. 87 no. 5 2007; (p. 48)
— Review of Puffling 2008 single work picture book -
Stories Show Teeth and Claws
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15-16 March 2008; (p. 33)
— Review of Hide and Seek 2008 single work picture book ; Clinton Gregory's Secret 2008 single work picture book ; Puffling 2008 single work picture book -
Under Age
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 16 March 2008; (p. 29)
— Review of The Clockwork Forest 2008 single work children's fiction ; Chelonia Green, Champion of Turtles 2008 single work children's fiction ; Puffling 2008 single work picture book -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 - 9 March 2008; (p. 25)
— Review of Puffling 2008 single work picture book -
The Worlds Between the Pages
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 May 2008; (p. 20)
— Review of Whose Eggs? 2008 single work picture book ; Columbia Sneezes 2008 single work picture book ; Clinton Gregory's Secret 2008 single work picture book ; Puffling 2008 single work picture book ; These Are My Feet 2007 single work picture book ; Paraphernalia's Present 2008 single work picture book -
Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas
Linnet Hunter
(interviewer),
2008
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 23 no. 1 2008; (p. 4-6) Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas interviewed by Linnet Hunter about their new collaboration, Puffling -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges Report 2009
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 53 no. 3 2009; (p. 4-10)
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted YABBA — Picture Storybook
- 2010 shortlisted KOALA Awards — Picture Book
- 2009 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Early Childhood
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