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 Truck full of ducks
 Author: Burach, Ross

 Publisher:  Scholastic Press (2018)

 Classification: Easy
 Physical Description: [38] p., col. ill., 29 cm

 BTSB No: 171875 ISBN: 9781338129366
 Ages: 4-8 Grades: K-3

 Subjects:
 Ducks -- Fiction
 Humorous fiction
 Humorous fiction
 Animal fiction

Price: $23.28

Summary:
A delivery man can't find his destination when a duck eats the directions. When he finally finds the right customer--a fox!--in the deep, dark woods, he's relieved ... but the ducks aren't so sure.

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Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: LG
   Reading Level: 1.40
   Points: .5   Quiz: 193904

Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (01/15/18)
   School Library Journal (02/01/18)
   Booklist (01/01/18)

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Booklist - 01/01/2018 Oh no, someone’s called for a truck full of ducks, but the order form has taken off??! Was it the construction crew? No, they wanted a DUMP truck. The pirate captain? No, he ordered “crackers . . . not quackers!” Who could it have been? Burach will have readers quacking up, both with the frequent repetition of the title—“Did you call for a truck full of ducks?” is a funny line no matter how often it’s read or heard—and over the illustrations, which are chock-full of googly-eyed yellow birds slurping from a “Bladder Buster”–sized soda as the canine truck driver barrels along, trying to track down the customer. At last, after numerous stops (and a timely bathroom break), the ducks are properly delivered . . . to a toothy fox in the deep, dark woods. Are those poor ducks in the soup? Nope: turns out dinner’s over, and as Fox rightly puts it at the end: “Bath time’s always more fun with duckies!” Sight gags and side comments in the pictures add further yuks to this ducky delight. - Copyright 2018 Booklist.

School Library Journal - 02/01/2018 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.—Sally James, South Hillsborough Elementary School, CA - Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

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