The Duck With No Luck
By Gemma Merino
Children love having fun with the book – The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water, which I’ve had the pleasure to read to many children, so it’s with pleasure that I review the picture book – The Duck With No Luck. It’s suitable for pre-schoolers and the early years of primary school.
Blurb
What’s a fed-up duck who feels all out of luck supposed to do? Go and ask a wise owl for help, of course! But watch out for the hungry Fox . . .
From the award-winning Gemma Merino, author of the The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water, The Duck With No Luck is a funny, uplifting and reassuring tale about how to tackle the ups and downs of life, take a more positive look at things and appreciate all you have.
After a particularly unlucky moment, Duck has had enough! Heading off to ask Wise Owl why he’s so unlucky, he comes across a lonely Swan, a hungry Fox and a bare tree, all looking for answers of their own. Will Wise Owl’s advice help Duck to find his luck after all? And has he just been looking in the wrong place all along?
Review
It’s half-term holidays for many people and books can be just the “ticket” to entertain and spend cosy times together.
The Duck With No Luck has great rhythm throughout the humorous plot. Join the journey as you follow Duck who is on a quest to find his luck. Will he be able to find it? Along the way you come across Wise Owl, Swan and Fox who Duck hopes can help. Books where different animals are met brings adventure, no matter how long or short and this one has a good pace to it.
The moral is to appreciate what is around you more and see this as being lucky, which in turn helps with emotional and resilience building. It is great that that there is humour and illustrations throughout, which makes it fun for children.
It’s a great book to read independently or with adults at home, in a nursery/ELC/school, Bookbug and rhyme time sessions.
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