I Like This Color!: A Silly Story about Listening

by Liz Goulet Dubois

Overview

A new Duck & Cluck book! The second in a funny graphic novel series for beginning readers, perfect for fans of Mo Willems and Elephant and Piggie.

Meet Duck and Cluck. They are friends. Mostly. But they do not always agree. But they do agree that the white pages in this book could use some color.

Duck thinks pink is the best color. Cluck likes orange. Duck knows Cluck is wrong. Cluck will show Duck that he is wrong.

No matter what color they end up with, they learn important lessons about manners and listening, in a story that's also laugh-out-loud hilarious!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728271989
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	05/02/2023
Series:	Duck and Cluck
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.35(d)
Lexile:	AD490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 8 Years

About the Author

Liz Goulet Dubois is an author/illustrator and product designer who lives in Rhode Island. When she’s not creating quirky and engaging stories for kids, she’s designing giftware and toys.

Editorial Reviews

"Speech bubbles and plenty of sound effects make this ideal for youngsters still mastering reading, while the playful metafiction will keep them giggling." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-01-25
A duck and chicken argue over what color the page should be.

Both birds agree their white background needs color, but Cluck favors orange, while Duck prefers pink. Illustrations and text that makes heavy use of alliteration guide beginning readers through longer words—tangerines, fabulous, flamingos—as each makes a case for their chosen color. In a sequence accompanied by onomatopoeia, they try to settle things by shoving flowers—an orange tiger lily and a pink carnation—in each other’s faces. Finally, they split the book along the gutter, Cluck painting the left side orange while Duck colors the right pink. But Cluck accidentally colors orange on Duck’s side; in an attempt to fix it, Duck paints over it, and suddenly we see a new, blended color. A short rainstorm blurs the colors more, and the end result reminds a passing alligator of a sunset in the Everglades. The fowl friends offer the appreciative gator their “canvas” and roll it off the panel’s background. But that leaves them where they started, with a “dull and dreary” page—to Duck’s consternation, in a stinger joke, Cluck wants to paint it orange. Spare text, with speech bubbles and plenty of sound effects, make this ideal for youngsters still mastering reading, while the playful metafiction will keep them giggling.

Fowl play in a format calibrated for its young audience. (Early reader. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews