Farmer Duck
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1564025969 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 40 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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I Could Still Hear the Kids Whispering "How Goes the Work?" even two weeks after I read them the story in their second grade class. Kids love it. It has all the entry points for beginning readers, and adults love it too--for similar reasons. I've had university faculty tell me that it's the Communist Manifesto for kids (remember the centrality of labor, organization, and consciousness), that it's a Trotskyist text (note the role of t. Compassion and charm L. Blackmore You can't help but feel instant pity for the little duck made to do all the work on the fat farmer's farm. He soldiers on while the chubby farmer monitor's his progress with a "how goes the work?" - a phrase my four year old now knows by heart and cries with a snigger with the turn of every page.The beautiful illustrations carries the Orwellian story of the animal's revolt w. farmer duck My daugther,9, asked me for the book.She just loved the story
. "Young readers will flap for joy right along with the endearing web-footed hero," said PW in a starred review. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Ages 3-up. From Publishers Weekly A poor duck is overworked by a lazy farmer?until the duck's farm friends mete out their own brand of barnyard justice
Martin Waddell's uplifting modern fable and Helen Oxenbury's humor and pathos make this a very special collaboration.Farmer Duck isn't your average duck. This duck cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm—all because the owner of the farm is too lazy to do these things himself. But when Farmer Duck finally collapses from exhaustion, the farmyard animals come to the rescue with a simple but heroic plan.