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PreSchool-Grade 2--This award-winning team returns with a third story of farm animals with ambition. Duck is tired of doing his chores (mowing the lawn and grinding the coffee beans), and decides to hold an election to replace Farmer Brown. When he wins, Duck quickly realizes that running a farm requires too much hard work, and sets out to run for governor. With the help of the hens, and speeches "that only other ducks can understand," he eventually ends up running the country. Executive office gives him a headache, however, so Duck returns to the farm to work on his autobiography--on a computer, with the typewriter from Click, Clack, Moo(S & S, 2000) in the wastepaper bin next to him. Lewin's characteristic humorous watercolors with bold black outlines fill the pages with color and jokes. Cronin's text is hilarious for kids and adults and includes a little math and quite a bit about the electoral process. The animals, who have no verbal language that humans can understand, are empowered by the use of the written word, and the subliminal message comes through loud and clear--one can almost hear youngsters thinking, "Watch out grown-ups! Just wait till I learn to read."--Jane Barrer, Washington Square Village Creative Steps, New York City
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My fellow Americans:
It is our pleasure, our honor, our duty as citizens to present to you Duck for President. Here is a duck who began in a humble pond. Who worked his way to farmer. To governor. And now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land.
Some say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he is a duck.
We say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he will be the next president of the United States of America.
Thank you for your vote.
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WITH A QUACK, QUACK HERE, AND A QUACK, QUACK THERE,
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This review is from: Duck for President (Hardcover)
If you're having trouble choosing a candidate in this election year, Duck's your man or more properly "your duck." "Duck is Great for 2008!"In this delightful children's story our hero may be a winner but he was once a very dissatisfied duck. He lived on a farm with many other animals and Farmer Brown. Each of the animals had a chore, and Duck thought farm work was terribly hard. So, he decided that they didn't have to do what Farmer Brown told them to do and he had an election to prove it. Sure enough, Duck beat out Farmer Brown! Well, it didn't take Duck long to discover that running a farm was actually harder work than doing chores. So, he decided to move on - he'd run for governor. You guessed it, this bird is on a winning streak! As it turned out, Duck soon discovered that running a state was no fun at all. What will he do about that? Doreen Cronin's clever narrative sings with rhymes, "A fresh bill on Capitol Hill," while Caldecott honoree Betsy Lewin's whimsical illustrations will bring smiles. - Gail Cooke
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WHAT A CLEVER IDEA! SO TIMELY!,
By Betty L. Dravis "BETTY DRAVIS, author/reviewer" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Duck for President (Library Binding)
This book is a wonderful spoof on the electoral process. It's very clever and the illustrations are wonderful. If I were a cow (there are some who may say I am), I would definitely strike for electric blankets before I gave them any more milk ... or voted for a president who wouldn't promise me at least that much. This author is very talented ... as is the illustrator. Duck already has my vote! ONLY IN AMERICA!
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WHAT A CLEVER IDEA ... SO TIMELY!,
By Betty L. Dravis "BETTY DRAVIS, author/reviewer" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Duck for President (Hardcover)
This book is a wonderful spoof on the electoral process. It's very clever and the illustrations are wonderful. If I were a cow (there are some who may say I am), I would definitely strike for electric blankets before I gave them any more milk ... or voted for a president who wouldn't promise me at least that much. This author is very talented ... as is the illustrator. Duck already has my vote! ONLY IN AMERICA!
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