Farmer Duck
Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
0-5 years |
| Reading Age |
0-5 years |
| Library of Congress |
Children's stories, English, Picture books for children |
| NBS Text |
Picture Books |
| ONIX Text |
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school;Children/juvenile |
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| Number of Pages |
33 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 375mm
Height: 409mm
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| Weight |
571g |
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| Dewey Code |
823.914 |
| Catalogue Code |
12096 |
Description of this Book
In order to make it easier to work with groups, this picture book is one of a series of titles that have been enlarged.
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Awards & Reviews
| Awards |
Winner of Smarties Book Prize Overall Winner 1991.
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| US Review |
A faithful duck labors while the indolent farmer lazes in bed, eating candy and occasionally inquiring, How goes the work? - to which the duck replies, Quack! When the duck grows sleepy and weepy and tired, the other animals hatch a plan, succinctly expressed: Moo! Baa! Cluck! They enter the house, climb the stairs, tip the sleeping farmer out of his bed and chase him away forever. Come morning, the duck arrives to slave alone as usual but finds the other animals eager to pitch in. The sanctimonious moral of The Little Red Hen gets a salutary restructuring here, with the focus on the duck's uncomplaining toil and the other animals' generosity. Waddell's narration is a marvel of simplicity and compact grace; Oxenbury's soft pencil and watercolor illustrations have the comic impact of masterly cartoons, while her sweeping color and light are gloriously evocative of the English farm scene. Like Waddell's Can't You Sleep Little Bear? (p. 58): a book with all the marks of a nursery classic. (Kirkus Reviews) |
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Author's Bio
There is no author biography for this title.
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