The Puffin Keeper

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When Allen leaves school he goes back to the lighthouse to find Benjamin and ends up staying as they try and rescue an injured puffin. Blabey has hit the proverbial nail on the head, kissed it full on the mouth, and handed it a stick of Acme dynamite. When the ship carrying 5-year-old Allen Williams and his mother founders off Cornwall’s Scilly Isles, lighthouse keeper Benjamin Postlethwaite comes to the rescue.

The Puffin Keeper by Michael Morpurgo review — how one stormy

The Birthday Duck, published on 15 April by HarperCollins, illustrated by the amazing Sam Usher, is a story about a boy who comes from the city to spend a week on the farm we live on, Nethercott Farm – which is of course run by the charity, Farms for City Children – and he decides to rescue a duck from the market, hide her away in his bag, and take her home as a present for his Grandpa. And that great storyteller Danyah Miller is telling again in her own inimitable way her wonderfully inventive adaptation of my short story I Believe in Unicorns. His best-known work, War Horse, was adapted into a multi-Oscar-nominated film by Steven Spielberg and into a widely acclaimed play by the National Theatre.Like so many theatres now, it’s alive and kicking, doors opening soon, lights going down, curtains going up. With his wife, Clare, he set up the charity Farms for City Children, and for their pioneering work they were both awarded the MBE in 1999. Provided you don't spend too much time staring in awe at the illustrations it's a half-hour read, but would be great to savour and read aloud with your children. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. As an adult I was captivated and touched by the story and it makes you sad in parts, but also warms your heart and makes you smile.

THE PUFFIN KEEPER | Kirkus Reviews

It is a story-poem inspired by a blackbird I heard one morning singing his heart out in our vegetable garden. I liked Benjamin Postlethwaite best as he came to save everyone on the boat and at the start he was a really dark person but and the end he was a happy bright person on Puffin Island with his lighthouse and puffins flying around him.Mut, Schaffenskraft, Inspiration und die Liebe zur Natur versprüht dieses Buch auf jeder einzelnen seiner Seiten und hat damit auch mein Herz erwärmt. With his wife, he set up the charity Farms for City Children, and for their pioneering work they were both awarded the MBE in 1999. It's a perfect book for younger children (even as young as 4 - 5 years) to have read to them as the illustrations are beautiful and the story is long enough to last a couple of bedtimes or one long and dedicated bedtime story.