Puffin Patrol

Einstein, Bounce and Puzzle are thrilled to be back at Sandcliff Lighthouse for another holiday. There are lots of other pups staying there this time which means fun for everyone! But when the local beach is covered in dog poo, the pals find themselves in a sticky situation. It gets so bad that even the puffins - who visit every year - are staying away! And then the local people start to blame the kennels, even though the pups know that Jackie and Trevor always clean up after them. Who is behind the smelly secret of Sandcliff Beach? Can the pups uncover the stinking truth in time to save Trevor's kennels and persuade the puffins to come back?

Adventures in bird rescue! Susan and Ryan are excited to be helping the Puffin Patrol this summer in Witless Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador! On cloudy nights, baby puffins can be confused by lights on the shore and become lost on roads and in gardens. Join Susan and Ryan and the Puffin Patrol as they rescue these pufflings and release them back into the ocean. With Dawn Baker's charming illustrations and lots of fun facts about cute-as-can-be Atlantic puffins, this delightful book will put a smile on children's faces!

Every April, the Westman Islands off the coast of Iceland become home to hundreds of thousands of puffins, small black-and-white seabirds with colorful bills. They spend the summer on the rocky cliffs of the islands, caring for their newly hatched chicks. By the middle of August, it is time for the young puffins, called pufflings, to make their way to the sea. And that is when the children of The Puffling Patrol are called to action. Ted and Betsy Lewin have journeyed to the Westman Islands to experience The Puffling Patrol’s endeavors firsthand. In the company of Erna, Dáni, and their father, they drive through town at night, carefully searching for confused little birds that have glided down onto the streets instead of out to sea. Will the children find the pufflings before the birds encounter danger? Will the pufflings ever make it to the sea to spend their lives with other puffins in the North Atlantic Ocean? The fascinating story of this unique annual rescue, combined with Ted Lewin’s dramatic paintings and Betsy Lewin’s lively field sketches, is sure to make Puffling Patrol a hit with animal lovers of all ages.

Ted and Betsy Lewin travel to Iceland to learn about the "Puffling Patrol," a group of children who rescue lost puffins and return them to sea.

Enduringly popular, Puffins are perhaps our most iconic species of bird, and are the most immediately identifiable of seabirds with their decorative bills and clown-like gait. Yet when they take to the air they wheel and turn with great agility and underwater these stocky little birds use short specially adapted wings to propel themselves through the water in pursuit of small fish. Surprisingly little was known about Puffin ecology until recently thanks to their preferred breeding habitat being underground on remote islands or hard-to-reach coastlines. Now Euan Dunn discloses all we have learnt about them as a result of technological advances, and provides a revealing account of their life cycle, behaviour and breeding, what they eat, how they interact in their busy colonies, and where they migrate to in winter. Euan also exposes the mounting threats Puffins face and offers advice on the best places to see them. Each Spotlight title is carefully designed to introduce readers to the lives and behaviour of our favourite birds and mammals.

The pups deal with a sticky situation on Sandcliff Beach: the second book in this hilarious new series.

Enchanted Parapet is the tale of a wedding planner’s journey to the truth when she sees startling visions of her clients’ past life together that she must decipher before disaster strikes. Bryn is co-owner of Anything Goes, a wedding planning company like no other. After seeing an ad for a romantic castle in the Shetland Islands, she snaps it up for her engaged clients without a second thought. But Bryn arrives to find the castle in disrepair, leaving her and her younger business partner, Jamie, only a week to transform the crumbling structure into an idyllic wedding venue. Unfortunately, planning the wedding is not their only challenge. Bryn has been having visions of the couple’s past life together that are slowly revealing unfinished karma that must be resolved before a catastrophe unfolds. She follows these startling revelations back in time to weave together clues as she unravels the history threatening the couple’s future. Plagued with visions of a Viking battle and a love triangle, Bryn must now piece together the couple’s former life in ninth century Scotland. All the while, Bryn and Jamie are battling their own trials trying to deliver a storybook wedding.

A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. ‘On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfully golden.’ The last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister’s death, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita/Tasmania, to Copenhagen, and then to the Faroe Islands, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies, swans and women, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a sweeping, deeply beautiful and profoundly moving novel about the far reaches of sisterly love, the power of wearing your heart on your skin and the ways life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy.