Sue Soltis

You can read this as a silly story about what a puffin is and is not like, but it also subtly teaches about the usefulness and limitations of the way scientists classify things.

It turns out, a puffin has at least one trait in common with almost everything, from a ladder to a newspaper to a penguin.

See also: The Angry Little Puffin

So cute, I had to check it out again.

Library copy

Follow this mischievous puffin through this story and you will begin to look at the world in a new and silly way. In this book of compare and contrast you will learn that everyday things may have more in common that you thought.