The Boy and the Little Puffin

A boy in a yellow raincoat and blue rubber boots joins his class for a Saturday visit to a coastal seabird reserve. A tall ranger in a green uniform greets the children and shows them the cliffs where the birds nest. Soon the boy notices a small puffin waddling over the grass with a blade of grass in its bright orange beak. The ranger explains how puffins dig burrows in the soft ground, lay a single egg inside, and come back to the same burrow each year. Drawn in, the boy follows the bird and watches it work patiently to make its nest comfortable.

When visitors leave the path and startle the puffins, the boy understands how easily the nesting areas can be disturbed. He suggests cheerful signs that ask people to stay on the paths and keep away from the burrows, and with the ranger's help he sets them out. This gentle tale by Aysel Banu YAVUZAL invites young readers to think about caring for wildlife, and it can be read on Masal İzle.