Saving Puff: A Puffin Rescue Story

An inspiring children's story based on an actual Atlantic puffin rescue effort.

Every year in late August and early September in the town of Vestmannaeyjar (VEST-man-naey-jar), on Heimaey (HAY-mah-ay) Island, Iceland, hundreds of children and their parents spend nights searching for stranded baby puffins, called pufflings. The rescue group is known as the Puffling Patrol. Its tradition of saving young puffins likely started in the early 1900s, when electricity began lighting the town. Puffli...