6/22/2023 0 Comments Nothing like a puffin(Sept.) Copyright 2011 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission. This is a 39 page activity/companion/literacy packet centered around the theme of Comparing/Contrasting using the book Nothing Like a Puffin as an. What's more, his restrained palette reinforces the similarities Soltis so effectively uncovers, e.g., the house's awning is striped with the same orange, yellow, and blue of the puffin's beak. But wait-a puffin is black and white, too! What are the chances?" This epiphany leads to others (a puffin can swim like a goldfish and dig like a shovel) as Kolar's (Big Kicks) bold, cheerful cartoons show the bird causing lighthearted havoc, tearing the homeowner's newspaper and biting a snake on the tail. "A newspaper, to be sure, is nothing like a puffin. About Nothing Like a Puffin, her first picture book, she says, Writing this book was a great exercise in logic. After discussing how a ladder and a house are nothing like a puffin, the narrator runs into a bit of trouble. "What a marvelous creature, one of a kind and amazing," she writes of the puffin. Much like her eponymous puffin, Soltis shows her mischievous side in her debut picture book, a playful exploration of unexpected comparisons with twists that will have readers reconsidering the ways in which disparate things can be surprisingly similar. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th
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