Audiences of one or many will enjoy it, especially if they get to press the duck and make him squeak. While not Carle’s best work, it still has those saturated colors that have such appeal. He offers his take on the 1992 news story that inspired Eve Bunting and David Wisniewski to create Ducky (1997).

All of his well-known components are present: a list of animals-many of them recognizable from earlier works-repeated words and phrases, bright friendly art on lots of white background, and a noisemaker at the end. Laura Ingalls Wilder Award–recipient and perennial favorite Carle revisits the counting-book format with his unmistakable blocky, painted collages. The tenth rubber toy runs into a family of wild ducks and they all nestle down under a friendly moon. One encounters a dolphin, another meets up with a seal, and so on. A storm blows up on their trip across the ocean, spills them out, and they drift in different directions. Beautiful artwork by Eric Carle.Ten rubber ducks are packed in a box and tied to a boat. Oceanographers have been following their paths to study currents etc. 'This story was inspired by a real event where there was a storm and 28,800 bath toys were lost at sea when a container load fell overboard and all the people who have been looking for them since this happened. I rated it well because it helps children learn numbers and direction with a cutre story and terrific art. This was a book for young readers anywhere from k-5. This book seemed to be a number book, teaching children numbers with the rubber ducks, as well as direction. The last duckling finds an actual duck and its ducklings and floats along the sea with them. I thought this book was awesome on the creativity, having the ducks all seperate and floating in different directions teaching chilren North, West, South and East, as well as including the animals you would find in those areas. One floats to the North and finds a polar bear, one floats to the west and finds a dolphin, one floats to the east and finds a seal and the other floats south and finds a flamingo. The ducks all then start floating in all direction. On the way shipping them at sea they fall overboard. In the beginning it is factory workers packaging rubber ducks. ' 10 Little Rubber Ducks was a great story with fantastic art as well. So to check if we have the book in-stock before you place your order, contact us at 6702 2452 or drop us an email at Level: 2+ *Despite our best efforts to predict the demand for books, the magical spells we use sometimes fail us. One lost his way and was adopted by a mother duck. The rubber ducks were sent to the ocean by a storm.

Ten rubber duckies book