When I'm Not Looking

by Farren Phillips

Overview

A combination of humorous detective story, fun fill-in-the-blanks, and laugh out loud details.

Legs isn't quite sure what her pet duck gets up to when she's not looking. Is her duck dressing like a knight and fighting dragons, starting an army of ducks, building a rocket, and even trying on Leg's best trousers?

Young readers will love joining Legs on her quest to solve the mystery, with their detective skills, critical thinking and imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953458070
Publisher:	APG Sales & Distribution
Publication date:	05/18/2021
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Farren is an Author/Illustrator from the UK with a passion for making people both laugh and think. After graduating her MA from Cambridge School of Arts she has gone on to publish picture books around the world.
From a caterpillar having an existential crisis to Schrödinger's duck, her stories always bring the laughs to storytime as well as introducing children to the world of philosophy and ethics. Farren's biggest dream is to create stories so entertaining and wacky that they stay with the readers long into adulthood.

Editorial Reviews

03/29/2021

In this irreverent interactive story, self-proclaimed philosopher Legs, whose “big” questions stump even her two moms, attempts to uncover a top-of-mind mystery: what her long-necked pet duck does when unobserved. “She’s probably just sitting around in a pond all day eating BREAD,” Legs reasons, pointing maniacally; perhaps, though, “that’s just what she WANTS you to think!” Bespectacled and clad in a white lab coat and hot pink onesie, light-skinned Legs offers laughably offbeat hypotheses for the fowl’s likely doings: “multiplying into fifty ducks,” “licking all the eggs,” “wearing my best pants.” (Fill-in-the-blank spaces invite readers to offer their own hypotheses, and occasional seek-and-find prompts encourage further reader involvement.) Visual and bathroom humor is tucked everywhere in Phillips’s jam-packed digital illustrations, which alternate college-ruled activity pages with highly detailed scenes of a home whose cluttered backgrounds evidence Legs’s STEM proclivities. The homemade effect lends the story a down-to-earth vibe that emphasizes how much fun it is to be over-the-top silly in the name of science. Ages up to 8. (May)

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