Mickey's Class Play

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A duck? Mickey would much rather be a spider, but things look up once he starts working on his costume and practicing his part. Disaster strikes, though, when his costume is ruined on opening night! Everyone in Mickey's family pitches in, and they create a new costume just in time. This spirited ode to diversity, imagination, elementary school drama, and yes, the duck, is sure to strike a familiar chord with anyone who has ever been involved ...

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Overview

A duck? Mickey would much rather be a spider, but things look up once he starts working on his costume and practicing his part. Disaster strikes, though, when his costume is ruined on opening night! Everyone in Mickey's family pitches in, and they create a new costume just in time. This spirited ode to diversity, imagination, elementary school drama, and yes, the duck, is sure to strike a familiar chord with anyone who has ever been involved with a class play. Curtain up!

Judith Caseley was born in New Jersey and graduated from Syracuse University. She lives in Glen Head, New York, with her husband and two children.

With the help of his family, Mickey enjoys being a duck in his class play.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Readers will offer polite rather than thunderous applause when the curtain goes down on Caseley's (Starring Dorothy Kane; Witch Mama) stilted tale about Mrs. Humphrey's class play, in which the kids dress up in homemade animal costumes. At center stage here is Mickey, disgruntled at being assigned the role of a duck until his older sister, Jenna, reads him the script and reassuringly announces that he gets "to sing a song and hop and flap your wings.... And you even get to hatch." As the students rehearse, Caseley casts the spotlight on each group of actors and notes why the children are pleased with their various animal parts. At times, the writing seems clumsy, in service of a somewhat forced theme ("They all felt special in their own ways, which made Mrs. Humphrey happy because she said that the play was about celebrating your differences"). The story goes on at some length, ending with the four members of Mickey's family going out for ice cream--"Four different flavors!" Despite the appealing energy of her brightly hued watercolor, colored pencil and black-pen art, Caseley gives a lackluster performance. Ages 4-up. (Aug.)
Children's Literature - Emily Ferren
Mickey's class is having a play about animals. Mickey ends up being the duck. On the night of the play, his feathers get wet and through a lot of last minute creativity and ingenuity, Mickey's family helps him to become the first ever "blue-winged teal from Saskatchwan, Ontario, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, and New Jersey." Everyone ends up quacking, singing, and going out to celebrate after the play. The exuberance of Mickey and his family is to be applauded. The illustrations are humorous and playful.
School Library Journal
K-Gr 2-Mickey is given the role of a duck in his class play, which is about celebrating diversity. He practices his lines faithfully, but on the big day disaster strikes: a rainstorm ruins the costume that he had made at school. Coming to the rescue, big sister Jenna finds some materials to make a new one, but Mickey laments that he won't look like the other ducks. She convinces him that there are many different types of ducks and that he can be unique. He proudly goes on stage bearing a sign that states he is a blue-winged teal. Caseley uses believable dialogue and strong characterizations to capture this childhood experience. Mickey has many emotions-disappointment over the part he is given, tension as he practices his role, panic at the destroyed costume, fear of being different, and pride in the final outcome. The detailed artwork, done in watercolors, pen, and colored pencils, shows the expressive faces of the multiethnic students and realistic classroom scenes. The endpapers depict different varieties of ducks. A good choice on many levels, this book can be used to celebrate differences, to show strong family bonds, to encourage ingenuity, and to emphasize responsibility.-Anne Knickerbocker, formerly at Cedar Brook Elementary School, Houston, TX
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780688154066
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 8/1/1998
  • Edition description: 1 ED
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.39 (w) x 10.33 (h) x 0.38 (d)

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