Review: A Good Book To Teach Kids They Don't Need to Have the Latest Fad But Makes Light of Rubbish in our Oceans Problem
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2013
Much Ado About Puffins isn't A. J. Cosmo's best book but it does teach a good lesson that kids don't have to have the latest fad and that what's popular today won't be cool tomorrow.  I'm not sure what the point of the environmental messages at the end were as the story itself didn't show any detrimental effects from garbage and other pollution in our oceans.  In fact it implies that wildlife love going through it everyday so a kid is therefore unlikely to care or even worse actively throw something into the sea, river or wherever that they think animals will think is cool to wear or have.  Animals such as birds of course do scrounge through our rubbish when it washes up in their habitats in real life, but maybe a puffin could have injured itself or nearly chocked or something and then of course been saved by another Puffin as it is a kid's book after all, rather than just pretending the rubbish is all fun and games.