Author: Julia Dunn

This is great news!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mrxwpevxmo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm39p1l9lpo

learn more about Great Auks and if you like what you see – have a look at my Etsy shop. Two children’s novels about the Great Auk.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheAukwardCompany?utm_campaign=Share&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_source=MSMT&utm_term=so.smt&share_time=1611968234000

Happy Uk world Book Day from Aukid and Park

Park says:
Why not join the RSPB to help save the puffin species? It could be wiped out within the next 25/50 years – just like the fate of the Great Auk.

£1 from the sale of each book will be donated to the RSPB throughout the month of March.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/membership/join?sourcecode=MRLITH0093&utm_source=meta&utm_medium=staticad&utm_content=integ-fund-need-puffin&utm_campaign=membership2425&fbclid=IwY2xjawI0CaBleHRuA2FlbQExAAEdzWg3Uapl3MnqyQZE5CUZzpMeHMLeEDXMpXIwNXp6lFn4GhcoNyZqvj-b_aem_hfYGTdtjcjn3QrMcozAtvA

Read about the last two Great Auks with this Telegraph article. You can access it for free if you don’t have an account!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/review-the-great-auk-tim-birkhead/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first

If you want to buy children’s books that will take your children on adventures as well as learning about the Great Auk and puffins, copies of my book are available on this website.

Enjoy!
Happy reading!
Julia

Book 3 is well under way now. It will be a dual narrative which will introduce children to this kind of writing and tell us much more about Great Auks.

Here is a sneaky peak of both the story and the Great Auk narrative running alongside it.

‘Aukid was certainly feeling very jumpy. As long as he had waited and prayed to be able to fly, he wasn’t enjoying this experience at all.  There seemed to be lots of these ‘air pockets’ or whatever they really were. He was suddenly wanting to be on the ground, and especially in the water.  Uh oh. Water! This was guaranteed to lead Aukid into thinking about his favourite subject, food. Fish in particular. Not those thin sand eels that Park was very partial to although they would definitely do but big juicy ones.  Auk-sized or rather Aukid-sized!’

‘Distributed amongst one of the offshore islands of the North Atlantic, The Great Auks, once quite prevalent there, were gathered in small colonies spending most of their time at sea, fishing in the shallow waters within about 2km of the shoreline choosing to consume large fish with a high fat content.  The smaller, less developed Great Auks were feeding on zooplankton (small groups of organisms found in water) and much smaller fish.’

https://aiaustin.wordpress.com/great-auk

A fabulous Great Auk blog here by Austin, a fellow Great Auk enthusiast. It’s well worth a read giving lots of info and fabulous pictures on the species.

Grab a cuppa and enjoy!

A great activity for children is to write and illustrate their own stories. Encourage them to have a go – maybe use my special ‘notebook’ edition of my books to help this. I’d love to see some examples of stories and drawings.