The Fuzzy Duckling

by Jane Werner Watson, Alice Provensen (Illustrator), Martin Provensen (Illustrator)

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A fuzzy duckling, having wandered off for a walk on his own, becomes worried when he cannot seem to find his way home again.

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I did not enjoy this story at all. I do not think the story even had a big message. The details in the story were bland and they did not have a meaning. The illustrations followed the story line but there was no plot in the story. It explained that a duck wanted to go for a walk and had no one to go with. The reader was told about his journey trying to find friends to go with and in the end realizing he would have stayed with his family. I am very disappointed in the way this story was written being it didn’t have a big message.
to teach students to walk in a line and not leave their class
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Een eendje ontmoet op zijn tocht eerst twee dartele veulens, daarna drie bonte koeien, vier schreeuwerige kalkoenen, vijf witte ganzen, zes huppelende lammetjes, zeven grappige kleine hondjes, tot en met acht hongerige biggetjes. Hij vraagt alle dieren mee te gaan wandelen, maar zij willen niet. Dan gaat het eendje naar zijn moeder en negen parmantige eendjes terug. Deeltje uit de bekende serie 'Gouden boekjes', met op iedere pagina een bijna bladvullende, gekleurde illustratie en daaronder enkele regels tekst. De onverbrekelijk met de tekst verbonden tekeningen zijn eerder vertederend dan mooi. Het boekje heeft een handzaam formaat en een overzichtelijke bladspiegel. Ondanks de vrij grote, schreefloze letter lijkt het show more boekje vooral geschikt als kijk- en voorleesboekje voor kinderen vanaf ij jaar. show less

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Alice Provensen was born Alice Rose Twitchell in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 1918. She took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of California at Los Angeles before finding a job at the animation studio of Walter Lantz. She met her future husband, Martin Provensen, while he was working on a Navy training film during show more World War II. They married in 1944 and relocated to Washington D.C., where she worked as a graphic artist for the Office of Strategic Services. They later moved to New York and became known as an author-illustrator picture book team. They created many award-winning picture books including A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Inexperienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, which won a 1982 Caldecott Honor, and The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, which won the 1984 Caldecott Medal. Their other books included A Year at Maple Hill Farm, Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm, Karen's Curiosity, Karen's Opposites, The Fuzzy Duckling, Katie the Kitten, The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, and A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. They also created Tony the Tiger, which was the advertising symbol of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. She continued working after her husband's death in 1987. Her books included The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States, A Day in the Life of Murphy, Punch in New York, and Klondike Gold. She died on April 23, 2018 at the age of 99. show less
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Golden Press (A Little Golden Book 482-1)

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Canonical title
The Fuzzy Duckling
Original title
The Fuzzy Duckling
Original publication date
1949
People/Characters
Fuzzy Duckling
First words*
Op een mooie morgen, toen het nog heel vroeg was, ging een klein eendje uit wandelen.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Eten is het beste wat je doen kunt na een flinke wandeling", zei het malle, eigenwijze eendje tegen z'n broertjes en zusjes.
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Children's Books, Picture Books
DDC/MDS
513.211Natural sciences & mathematicsMathematicsArithmeticArithmetic operationsAddition, Subtraction, Multiplication and DivisionAddition and Counting
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PZ7 .W3274 .FLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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5 — Dutch, English, French, Icelandic, Swedish
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
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ASINs
27