![]() ![]() ![]() 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%E2%80%94a 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. After discussing how a ladder and a house are nothing like a puffin, the narrator runs into a bit of trouble. At the end of the book, the author reviews the difference between a puffin and a penguin. "What a marvelous creature, one of a kind and amazing," she writes of the puffin. Nothing Like a Puffin (4-6 years old) takes you through the similarities between a Puffin and various objects. ![]() 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. Look, a puffin What a marvelous creature, one of a kind and amazing. ![]()
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