FICTION

Truck Full of Ducks

illus. by Ross Burach. 40p. Scholastic. Mar. 2018. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781338129366.
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PreS-Gr 2—Children will love the zany cartoon drawings in this humorous story about a truck service run by Bernie the dog, who specializes in delivering ducks. The ducks on board the truck are one crazy bunch, consuming everything in sight (from donuts to pizza to a bladder-buster beverage), but when they gobble up the directions to the latest customer, Bernie is forced to head out with little guidance. They encounter a variety of individuals who ordered a truck, just not a truck full of ducks. One girl wanted a mail truck to send her brother far away while another ordered a dump truck, not a duck truck. Each individual they encounter is outlandish. Kids will snicker when Bernie is forced to give the ducks a potty break, will start to sweat when they discover that a fox deep in the dark woods has actually placed the order, and will be tickled by the twist at the end. It turns out that the fox (H. Ungry Fox) has ordered the ducks for his bath time, not for his dinner.
VERDICT Children will delight in the extreme silliness of this story and will repeatedly pore over the detailed, colorful, and quirky illustrations.

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