Puffin is an architect who always exceeds her clients' expectations, that is,
until she takes on the toughest clients ever – her own pufflings!
WINNER – NZ Booklovers Award 2019 Best Children's Book
Puffin takes her tricky new clients on an inspirational tour of her builds.
Together they visit all kinds of cleverly designed spaces – Otter's floating
home, Pig's toolshed on wheels, Painter Goose's light-filled studio and
Platypus's cosy underground bakehouse.
The pufflings are unimpressed.
Her clients really are a challenge! Will Puffin come up with a
puffling-perfect home design?
This gorgeous story, with endearing animal characters, intriguing house
designs, ingenious mechanisms and storage solutions to pore over on every page,
will spark a brand new generation of architects, engineers and interior
designers!
Author Biography
Kimberly Andrews is a trained biologist and geologist who grew up in the
Canadian Rockies, and she has also lived and worked in New Zealand, Borneo and
the UK. In London, she worked for The House of Illustration, whose main
ambassador is Quentin Blake, and at the Natural History Museum. Kimberly now
lives in a small house near Wellington, where she illustrates and writes, and
runs her business Tumbleweed Tees, designs which feature New Zealand birds and
wildlife.
Her first picture book, Tuna and Hiriwa (Huia, 2016) was a 2017 Storylines
Notable Book and shortlisted for the Te Reo category of the New Zealand Book
Awards for Children and Young Adults.