Through the story of one puffling's first year, this handsome picture book brings close the amazing facts about puffins. The clear text and bright, textured mixed-media art tell how two puffins come in from the sea, mate on an island, and burrow underground to prepare their nest for their single egg. They take turns keeping the egg warm, and when it hatches 41 days later, they raise their chick, feed him live fish, and then watch him leave and fly out with the other pufflings into the big ocean world. Then there is the amazing fact that two or three years later, he will return to the island and continue the cycle.