Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Introduce little ones to the ideas of worker’s rights, justice and compromise through the 32 funny and colorful pages of Click, Clack, Moo. The cold farm cows are on strike until they receive electric blankets and they let Farmer Brown know through type-written memos. Brown is agitated by the typewriter-using, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ducks'
Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg
April 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Mia Posada hatches a great children’s book that appeals to children’s curiosity and fascination with the natural world. She uses a couple rhyming sentences to hint at a mysterious animal in an egg before adding the refrain, “Can you guess what is growing inside this egg?” The watercolor and cut paper [...]
Tags:Animals·Biology·Birds·Ducks·Early Elementary·Easter·Eggs·Embryo Development·Huyen MacMichael·Illustration·Mia Posada·Penguins·Preschoolers·Spring·Wildlife
I Love Animals
March 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI My toddler loves this book. Its simple repetitiveness keeps her interested to the end, when she often says, “Again.” It starts with the statement “I love animals,” and each page is an expression of love for a different farm animal. “I love the ducks waddling to the water. I love the donkeys braying [...]
Tags:Animals·Baby Books·Ducks·Farmed Animals·Flora McDonnell·Good for Toddlers·Jennifer Kali
Biscuit Finds a Friend
October 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY My daughter is just learning to read, and she gets easily discouraged when it takes too long to sound out words or figure out a sentence. Luckily, Alyssa Satin Capucilli’s Biscuit books are just about right. While there are a lot of sight words (perhaps because they’re geared to “shared reading”), [...]
Tags:Alyssa Satin Capucilli·Animal Rescue·Dogs·Ducks·Early Elementary·Early Readers·Preschoolers·Wildlife
McKenzie’s Frosty Surprise
September 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR In this story by Patricia L. Atchison and Jo-Anne Jagers, McKenzie is a Mallard duck with a mind of his own. Rather than follow the other ducks and make the annual migration when the weather starts to get colder, he insists on staying behind. Soon thereafter, McKenzie learns that it wasn’t [...]
Tags:Animal Personalities·Ducks·Early Elementary·Jacqueline Bodnar·Jo-Anne Jagers·Migration·Patricia L. Atchison·Preschoolers
If You Were My Baby: A Wildlife Lullaby
August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN If you were my baby squirrel,/ I would welcome you to the world/ In a secret nest I made just for you. And so begins this tender bedtime story. Following the same format on each page — three poetic lines written from a parental perspective — children are introduced to [...]
Tags:Animal Emotion·Animal Families·Beavers·Carolyn M. Mullin·Ducks·Early Elementary·Fran Hodgkins·Good for Toddlers·Preschoolers·Squirrels·Wildlife·Wildlife Books for Kids
10 Little Rubber Ducks
July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Author and illustrator Eric Carle has an extensive body of work that is well known to those with children or even those who have set foot in the children’s section of any American bookstore or library. A brief forward in 10 Little Rubber Ducks explains that Mr. Carle’s inspiration for this [...]
Tags:Consumerism·Ducks·Eco-Friendly Kids Books·Environment·Eric Carle·Globalization·Good for Toddlers·Human Rights·Jennifer Gannett·Preschoolers
Duck Soup
June 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR In Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic, all of Max’s friends believe he must have fallen into a pot of soup he was preparing. Frantic to get their friend out of the pot of soup, they strain it and search for him in all of the vegetables they come across, questioning whether [...]
Tags:Animals as Food·Consumption of Animals·Ducks·Early Elementary·Jackie Urbanovic·Jacqueline Bodnar·Preschoolers
Duck at the Door
May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Jackie Urbanovic‘s lighthearted Duck at the Door is sure to tickle readers who love animals. When there’s a knock at the door late at night, all of the furry and feathered inhabitants of the house wake their person Irene to see what to do. She graciously takes in a duck who’s [...]
Tags:Animal Rescue·Ducks·Early Elementary·Humane·Humor·Migration·Preschoolers·Wildlife·Wildlife Books for Kids·Wildlife Rehabilitation
Duck on a Bike
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL As Duck demonstrates his bicycle riding skills to each of the other animals, we hear their critical opinions of a duck riding a bike. Then an opportunity arises that gives all the other animals access to wheels as well and none can resist! Just thinking of a duck (or any other animal) on a [...]
Tags:David Shannon·Ducks·Early Elementary·Fear·Huyen MacMichael·Illustration·Imagination·Preschoolers
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