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Overview

In this funny nod to Chicken Little, a quiet afternoon on the farm might be the scene of a barnyard disaster waiting to happen.

When Duck runs around the farm shouting “DUCK!” to the other animals, they grow exasperated as they haughtily explain to Duck which animal is which. Unfortunately, something is falling from the sky. But perhaps “DUCK!” isn’t the best warning. Perhaps what Duck should have said is . . . “RUN!”

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ISBN-13:	9781536204223
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	08/13/2019
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,121,905
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Meg McKinlay is an award-winning author of children's picture books and novels. Her work includes Duck for a Day and No Bears, both illustrated by Leila Rudge. Meg McKinlay lives in Australia.

Nathaniel Eckstrom has illustrated a number of picture books. DUCK! is his first picture book with Candlewick Press. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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Eckstrom's cartoon-style art enhances the humor at every turn, even including tiny, distant images of the house hurtling through the sky on pages before its crash-landing. Wonderful—sure to beckon repeat reads.
—Kirkus Reviews

The pencil, acrylic, and digital art undercuts some of the action with fuzzy edges and a muted palette, but the real possibility here lies in the performance, with the animals’ compounding upon their frustrated answers to Duck’s misinterpreted command (“You are a duck, and he is a horse, and she is a cow, and he is a pig, and I am a sheep”), culminating in a very adult-sounding lecture about the value of difference—right before the wind picks up. Use this as a playful counterpart to the classic “Chicken Little” for an engaging storytime.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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2019-05-12
Fun with homonyms, misapprehension, and playful art defines this barnyard tale.
No one will listen to Duck's repeated cries of "DUCK!"—not the horse, nor the cow, nor the pig, nor the sheep. In fact, they all take offense at the duck's exclamations, misunderstanding them as self-referential and narcissistic. After each animal separately berates the duck for seeming to confuse them for one of its kind, they glare at the duck (now placing a bucket over its head like a helmet) and say, "Now listen. You need to stop this nonsense right now"; "You have to understand that everyone is different"; and "Some are ducks and some are not." The poor duck, cowering in the lower-right corner of the recto, protests, "BUT—" and a page turn reveals the punchline: The duck wasn't confusing the other animals for itself; it was issuing a plaintive, well-meaning homonym as a command. Alas, the animals don't duck, and they're squashed like the Wicked Witch of the West beneath a farmhouse that falls from the sky. A backmatter copyright page underscores the intertextual reference to Baum's classic with a signpost labeled "KANSAS" and newspapers headlined "Tornadoes Hit Kansas" and "Batten Down the Hatches" amid the wreckage. Eckstrom's cartoon-style art enhances the humor at every turn, even including tiny, distant images of the house hurtling through the sky on pages before its crash-landing.
Wonderful—sure to beckon repeat reads. (Picture book. 3-7)

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