Sorry but I fail to see what is so great about this book. I didn't like for one thing the mother duck's arrogant attitude that she's such an expert mother and her proudly parading her brood down the street oblivious to the trouble she is causing the drivers and the endangerment to her ducklings. Not a good example for children either is her intial attempt to cross a busy street. If the policeman hadn't been there she'd have been road kill. I think it would have been better if the ducks had been characterized as dumb animals instead of one's with arrogant thought processes.
And I didn't understand why they returned to the place where they could hardly get food except begging peanuts and nearly got run over by a little boy on a bike. And why did father duck take off? A strange book, so I plan to read it a few more times to see if I can get something else out of it.
The old-timey illustrations are detailed and interesting. Thus the three stars.
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A Boston classic...
Date: 2006-03-29 05:20 pm (UTC)Sorry but I fail to see what is so great about this book. I didn't like for one thing the mother duck's arrogant attitude that she's such an expert mother and her proudly parading her brood down the street oblivious to the trouble she is causing the drivers and the endangerment to her ducklings. Not a good example for children either is her intial attempt to cross a busy street. If the policeman hadn't been there she'd have been road kill. I think it would have been better if the ducks had been characterized as dumb animals instead of one's with arrogant thought processes.
And I didn't understand why they returned to the place where they could hardly get food except begging peanuts and nearly got run over by a little boy on a bike. And why did father duck take off? A strange book, so I plan to read it a few more times to see if I can get something else out of it.
The old-timey illustrations are detailed and interesting. Thus the three stars.