Review: Great illustrations in this book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2012
This book has very good illustrations. The pictures are large, bright and colorful. As for the story, I get where the author was going with it and I liked the unusual approach toward getting there. The puffins are all competing to see who can find the best treasure. I liked that the one puffin stood up for herself and told everyone how she felt and I thought sending kids the message that it is okay to not care about the same things as everyone else was a really great basis for a kids book. The only thing that really bothered me, was that the puffins seemed to enjoy their trash so much that the moral seemed to be a little lost on my son. He came away feeling like "well, at least someone liked trash," rather than that the trash could have been harmful to the birds and other sea animals. I think overall this was a good book for kids and there is a recycling message at the end of the book.