#Flight of the puffin how to#

Jack is up against the school board that wants to close their school. Libby’s up against her parents not appreciating her need to make art and spread joy with it. But it doesn’t make him fit in at school. Instead of the t-shirts his mother buys for him, he finds an old button-down white shirt with a small puffin, and that represents him. The fourth person we meet is Vincent, who’s decided he wants to be like a puffin. T has a shorter chapter, sleeping on a sidewalk with their dog. He’s good with the younger kids, and misses his brother, who was six when he died. Then there’s Jack, who goes to a small two-room school in Vermont. And as she works on it, making it colorful and beautiful, the principal steps around the corner, and we discover she’s painting on a wall of the school. We’re only given the locations of two of the four, and they’re on opposite sides of the country, so we’re interested in finding out how the stories will connect. Review written July 8, 2021, from a library bookįlight of the Puffin follows four different kids, each of them a bit of a misfit. It doesn’t even have to be another season, just a small change in light, and everything looks completely different.įlight of The Puffin is a fine short documentary that takes us to a barely known world of puffin hunters who are at the same time their biggest protectors – a strange circle of love and kill, difficult to grasp.Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin Random House), 2021. The shots taken from above are breathtaking, proving again how incredibly beautiful, and constantly changeable Iceland is. It’s this polarity between the connection to the nature and the human urge to destroy it that interests both Rakel Dawn Hanson and her main protagonist who at one point admits that we will all suffer the consequences of our negligent behaviour towards the nature one day.īy watching the beautiful islands with green coated hills it is almost easy to forget about a pile of lifeless puffin bodies one gets to see at one brief point in the movie. Hanson is voice-overing the film, introducing useful information to understand the synergy between humans and their largest bird population on the island. We’ve never known anything else” remarks Ágúst, like he were simply reading my mind. “The Pufflings are as normal as Netflix and Youtube are for kids today. It feels so retro, very 20th century to see children emersed in doing something else than instagraming, tic-tocking and all other social media related -ings out there. Her dream is that she also, one day, helps her dad and syblings to save her favourite birds.īy seeing those children so strongly attached to their environment one thought suddenly materializes – nobody is holding a smart phone or a tablet in their hands. We also get introduced to the youngest member of the family, Ágúst’s 3-ish-year-old daughter who’s warmheartedly talking about her love of the puffins.

#Flight of the puffin how to#

When he is thought how to catch one with a net, he decided to release the bird.

Svenni spends most of the time with his dad learning about puffins. We just know that the right time to save the birds is between 8-9 pm until 1am. There must be a school children need to attend, but this is never addressed. The boys sometimes spend the whole nights helping their dad, and this unique type of bonding doesn’t get questioned. He is teaching his two young sons how to save the baby birds who attracted by village lights in the evening get lost or hurt. Ágúst is nowadays more dedicated to saving birds’ lives and not destroying them. There is still a hunting hut his father and grandfather were regularly using with other men on their hunting spree, with many beds aligned in the dorm, and photographs from the ‘glorious’ past showing men with their trophees. “I would lie in a pile of dead puffins and cuddle in their heat”, he tells the director Rakel Dawn Hanson laughing before explaining that he himself started hunting already at the gentle age of 10. The knowledge about the birds has been passed from generation to generation, and Ágúst can recall how he went with his father hunting.

Hunting puffins has a long tradition in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago (Western Islands) off Iceland’s south coast.

Screenshot from Rakel Dawn Hanson’s documentary ‘Flight of The Puffin’.