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"Ten little ducks go for a walk with their parents but one by one, they get distracted and go off on their own adventures, meeting new friends along the way"--
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Anita Lobel’s name is synonymous with the best in children’s literature. She is the creator of such classics as
Alison’s Zinnia and
Away from Home, and she received a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in
On Market Street. She is the creator of three books featuring her cat, Nini:
One Lighthouse, One Moon (a
New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book);
Nini Lost and Found; and
Nini Here and There. And she wrote
Ducks on the Road, which
The Horn Book called “cozy.” Her childhood memoir,
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Anita Lobel lives in New York City.
Riassunto
From Caldecott Honor artist Anita Lobel comes a touching and classically vividly illustrated story of a family of ducks out for a walk and the surprises they meet along the way.
When a family of ducks goes out for a walk, their path takes them in unexpected directions—and maybe even to some new friends. Little ones will delight in counting ducks one through ten and identifying the other animals the duck family meets on their country walk.
Testo aggiuntivo
Mama and Papa Duck are walking down a country road lined with flowers, with their ten little ducklings following behind them—but there aren’t ten for long. “The tenth little duck in line turned back to quack, ‘Hello, Frog!’” Mama and Papa Duck continue to lead the way, breaking out of the frame of the picture, oblivious to their missing baby. They don’t notice when the ninth duckling stops off by an apple tree to say, “Hello, Mouse!” or when the eighth duckling stops to greet a squirrel. Lobel uses gouache, colored pencil, and felt-tip pen in cheery shades of orange and yellow, with a pale blue sky, and her animals are realistic, not cartoonish. She varies the foliage, giving each greeted creature a different type of tree or flower to sit under, and she keeps the landscape interesting with the addition of a fence or curves in the road, which stretches off into the distance. Each of the ten ducklings finds someone to say hello to, including a cat, a dog, a sheep, an owl, and even another duckling. The story’s roots may be in the somewhat ominous old children’s song “Five Little Ducks,” but Lobel keeps the feeling warm, safe, and cozy. In addition to counting the ducklings, children will enjoy making the animal sounds on the final page, with all ten ducklings—plus one—back home in their pond, surrounded by their new animal friends. Even very young children can “read” this book on their own once they know the basic story, but it will also be a great choice for toddler storytime.
