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Polly and the Puffin: Book 1

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Polly and the Puffin: Book 1 by Jenny Colgan, and Thomas Docherty

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By Jenny Colgan, and and, Thomas Docherty

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Meet Polly and her puffin Neil in the debut children’s book from Sunday Times bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan. Illustrated throughout and with recipes, activities and rhymes in addition to the irresistible story.

Polly heard a CRASH downstairs. Was it a monster? NO! Was it a spider alien? NO!
It was a little puffin with a broken wing…

When Polly discovers an injured puffin, she and her mummy look after him in their cottage by the sea.

Slowly, Neil’s wing heals and Polly must prepare herself to say goodbye to her new friend. Will she ever see him again?

Perfect for bedtime stories and early readers. From the author of The Little Beach Street Bakery.

Contains recipes, activities and jokes in addition to the story.

Reviews

18 Nov 2024

nice one

10 Sep 2023

MairiG

Sweet little book with gorgeous illustrations and good balance of text to pictures. I read the book with several Y1/2 classes. It will be interesting to see if anyone borrows it to read themselves… 🪶

22 Aug 2023

I really love this one because the puffin is called Neil and that's my Grandad's name. I also like Polly because she looks after Neil very well and carefully.

16 Jul 2023

A good short story.

04 Jun 2023

It was amazing and I would like to have a puffin.

25 Aug 2022

Shh Polly is asleep CRASH! a puffin comes crashing down through the window is it hurt? Is here any way Polly and her mummy can help?

08 Aug 2022

I think Neil the puffin is funny -EEP!

07 Aug 2022

I liked this book because Polly saved the Puffin

07 Aug 2022

I really liked that it had lots of jokes at the back of the book!

02 Aug 2022

I really liked this book.
I like this book because the illustrations are really nice.
I liked Neil.(the puffin.) the best
I would recommend it because it's an awesome book.

31 Jul 2022

It's just a good book in general so it was a good choice.

25 Jul 2022

Polly and the puffin is a awesome book.Polly found a puffin with an injured wing . Polly cares for the puffin until it’s wing has healed.

07 Sep 2021

This is an engaging story with wonderful illustrations (in the colour palette of a puffin!) followed by puffin-related recipes, jokes and activities, plus lots of interesting facts about puffins. Visually stimulating, this little book is jam-packed with entertainment; so much more than just a tale of a little girl and her rescued, pet puffin.

This was the first book I read in my project to read books written for children by authors who also write for adults. I recently enjoyed reading 'Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery' by Jenny Colgan. She writes in a familiar style - you really feel she is talking to you personally about mutual friends. Her characters and settings are beautifully drawn.

09 Aug 2021

I liked the girl who cared for the puffin so much.

03 Aug 2021

It was brilliant I was sad when neal wing was broken

29 Jul 2021

Wow it's amazing

11 Sep 2020

Wow

07 Sep 2020

I really like this book. The Puffin is called Neil and they become friends.

02 Sep 2020

It was really good

01 Sep 2020

I like it when the puffin keeper, put a tag on the puffin so polly knew where he was.

31 Aug 2020

I liked how Polly cared for Neil the Puffin so much. She wanted to look after him forever. I knew if I was Polly I would miss the puffin lots.

27 Aug 2020

Beautiful pictures and very good noises. The story was really fun.

10 Aug 2020

Book was right length and easy to read.

10 Aug 2020

I liked this book and the little puffling. I read it in one day

27 Jul 2020

It was really good. I liked Polly because she was really kind. I liked the puffin because I like puffins. The book was quite sad because the puffin had a broken wing and also had to fly away someday. I would recommend this to my friends.

23 Jul 2020

My favourite character was Neil, the puffin. I thought it was really, really funny.

18 Jul 2020

This is a great book for younger kids. It is good for avenues for little kids. I would recommend this to little kids

12 Jan 2020

Polly took care of Neil the Puffin.

28 Aug 2019

I liked it because She was caring for the bird who had a very poorly, poorly wing.I would recommend it.

15 Aug 2019

Polly is an enthusiastic young child who one day find’s a puffin. She names it Neil. When she go’s to the vets she find’s out she can only keep Neil ‘till his wing is better. Will Polly ever see Neil again?

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