Duddle Puck: The Puddle Duck

by Karma Wilson, Marcellus Hall (Illustrator)

Overview

Meet the one and only Duddle Puck, a plucky duck who does anything but quack in this picture book from New York Times bestselling duo Karma Wilson and Marcellus Hall that is anything but stereotypical.

Everyone knows that ducks quack, right? Well, everyone except Duddle Puck, a puddle duck who just won’t quack. Duddle Puck just loves to make all sorts of barnyard sounds as he jigs around the farm. He can cluck, honk, oink, and neigh with the best of them. But quack? Nope. The other barnyard animals think there’s no room on a farm for a duck that won’t behave like a duck. Yet as they try to teach Duddle Puck be a proper duck, they may just find that their rules aren’t all they’re “quacked” up to be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442449282
Publisher:	Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication date:	08/25/2015
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	64 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Karma Wilson is the bestselling author of several picture books, including the Bear Books series; Where Is Home, Little Pip?; and A Dog Named Doug. Karma lives in Montana.

Marcellus Hall graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. His art has appeared on the cover of The New Yorker, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Time magazine. His first book for children was Because You Are My Baby (2008). He lives in New York City, and can also be found at MarcellusHall.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Encouragement for all who waddle to the beat of a different drummer"

June 2015 - Kirkus Reviews

2015-06-06
A newly arrived duck who would rather oink, neigh, and even belt out "HIP-HIP HOORAY!" than quack has all the farmyard's residents aflutter. Duddle Puck's little quirk is such a source of irritation—"Hank the Horse was stunned; / he was taken quite aback. / ‘Ducks should never neigh, / they really oughta quack!' "—that everyone including the farmer gangs up at last and quacks loudly in chorus to demonstrate how it's supposed to be done. More amused than cowed, Duddle obligingly utters a gigantic "QUACK-" that is followed on the ensuing spread with an equally stentorian "A-DOODLE-DOO!" Echoing the author-illustrator duo's previous nod to nonconformity, The Cow Loves Cookies (2010), Wilson contributes a rollicking rhymed narrative (a bit challenging to read, at least aloud, due to sudden metrical shifts and the protagonist's tongue-twister name). Though Hall lays out the farm differently, it's still an idyllic setting, into which he brings back both the spade-bearded farmer and, in an inconspicuous cameo, the cow. Topped by a feed cap just like the farmer's, Duddle Puck struts insouciantly past the offended livestock, hops up onto a picnic table to cheer on a birthday celebration, and is last seen crowing proudly from the henhouse roof. Encouragement for all who waddle to the beat of a different drummer. (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews