Name: Five little ducks
ISBN: 9780060734657

Dan Yaccarino

When mother duck's five ducklings disappear one by one, she goes looking for them.

Five little ducks

Sarah Sammis

Like Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth, Five Little Ducks is a counting and rhyming book. Here it is a mother duck and her five ducklings who one by one leave her side until she is alone.

The mother duck goes through her routine and one by one her little ones leave her side to explore on their own. The story is based on a traditional folk song and colorfully illustrated by Dan Yaccarino.

Overall it's a cute book. Harriet and I enjoyed it. I have one little quibble and that's over the way the fledgling ducks are drawn. They're still bright yellow. Fledglings would have their adult plumage. I suppose to the mother duck they will always be her babies even now that they've left home.

Five little ducks

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