<p><b>An east coast yarn about a parrot who wants the rugged life of a puffin…or does he?<\/b><\/p> <p><i>Pete was an unusual parrot. <br\/> He wanted to be a puffin. <br\/> So he decided to leave town, and head for the coast.<\/i> <\/p> <p>When Pete the parrot looks back on his seafaring family history\u2014including his grandmother, Polly Pirate, and his grandfather, Paul Privateer\u2014he decides to leave his cozy city home in search of the rugged puffin life on the coast. The puffins are friendly and welcome Pete with fish\u2014which he doesn’t like to eat\u2014and a swim in the ocean\u2014which he doesn’t like to do\u2014and they seem to do little more than sit on the rocks all day and night\u2014which doesn’t interest him. Worst of all, they don’t seem to have much to say. Can Pete really live like a puffin, or is he just too different? <\/p> <p>A charming story from the critically acclaimed author-illustrator behind <i>The Puffin Problem<\/i> and <i>Mallard, Mallard, Moose<\/i>, featuring folk art\u2013inspired illustrations, <i>The Land Puffin<\/i> is a good-humoured yarn with a subtle message about the importance of celebrating our differences.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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