Reader’s Annotation: This is a great storybook based on the classic song: Little White Duck. This makes for a great story time and sing-along time, whether at school, public library or at home with the family. The whole family will enjoy this one, since the beloved song spans generations!
Author/contributer: Bernard Zaritzky
Illustrator: Joan Paley
Lyrics: Walt Whippo
Age: 1 - 6
genre/subject: children's literature, picture book
Plot Summary: The story follows the various animals in one pond. It starts with the white duck and as other animals enter the scene, green frog, red snake...the lily pad remains.
Evaluation: Animals found in a pond. Each one has their own job.
Significance & Bibliographic Usefulness: Great verse repetition, alliteration and rhyming
Readalikes: Teddy Bear Picnic, also a classic song put into book format.
Awards/Lists: n/a
Links to reviews in professional review sources:
Alina Celeste does an amazing job performing this for children:
Hook: Each animal does what it ought to! What is your job? What is your mother's job? What is your grandfather's job?
Ideas, Uses: Jobs.
ISBN: 978-0316032278
Page Count: 32
Format: hardcover, paperback, board, audio
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1st edition (April 1, 2000)
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