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Puffin Keeper, The
Michael Morpurgo
Illustrator: Benji Davies
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Puffin Canada/Penguin Random House of Canada
ISBN: 978-0-7352-7180-7
Keywords: friendship, mothers and sons, single-parent families, WWI, animal rescue, wildlife conservation
A lifelong friendship starts when a boy, who will grow up to found Penguin Books, is rescued from a shipwreck by a lighthouse keeper on Puffin Island. Painterly illustrations.