A Paddling of Ducks: Animals in Groups from A to Z

by Marjorie Blain Parker, Joseph Kelly

Overview

Loaded with visual jokes and puns, a joyous and gently surreal celebration of animals in groups, from Ants to Zebras.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781894786362
Publisher:	Kids Can Press
Publication date:	03/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	200L (what's this?)
File size:	24 MB
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Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Marjorie Blain Parker is the author of Jasper's Dayand A Paddling of Ducks. Over the years, she and her family have shared their home with a banana king snake, a hamster, numerous fish and two ducks.
Joseph Kelly is a commercial and industrial artist. He is illustrator of the Martin Bridge series of chapter books and A Paddling of Ducks. He lives in Sonoma, California.

Editorial Reviews

This ABC book provides a delightfully offbeat introduction to collective nouns, featuring groups of animals at a Riviera-like resort locale with palm trees and a seaside Ferris wheel. An “army of Ants” closes in on an anteater's doughnuts (he's too busy with his laptop and coffee to notice), while a “bloat of Hippos” work out on exercise bikes. Even better than learning some of the unusual ways to refer to multiple animals is the way Kelly's soft-focus oil and acrylic paintings riff on the terms themselves. Thus, a “gang of Elk” and “skulk of Foxes” look appropriately rowdy, and a “labor of Moles” in hardhats are seen doing excavation work. The anthropomorphic animals feel anatomically authentic, but with exaggerated joie de vivre to spare. Ages 4–7. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

The illustrations of the various creatures are vivid and detailed.-School Library Journal

This ABC book provides a delightfully offbeat introduction to collective nouns.-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

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