Make the Team, Baby Duck!

Make the Team, Baby Duck! (Baby Duck #6)

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Will Baby Duck take the plunge? Amy Hest and Jill Barton team up swimmingly for a new Baby Duck episode - with enough humor and heart to reassure the most hesitant of little ones.


Baby Duck longs to join the swimming team. But she won’t go in the water - no matter how cheerfully Mrs. Duck trills or how earnestly Mr. Duck clucks. Luckily, Grampa comes wandering by with his n...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published August 26th 2002 by Candlewick
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Jessy
I think this book if appropriate for a kindergarten class since it doesn't offer much for older kids. I think it would be a good book if you are on the subject of swimming and want to encourage students not to be afraid of water. I think that the illustrations aren't all the terribly great to look at but I don't think young children would mind much.
Kim
Not a terribly compelling story, though it might do the trick for a kid afraid to swim.

Still, the final "song" at the tend is just terrible!
"Swim swim swim
I like and love my Grampa
We have a pretty towel
Make the team, Baby duck!"

That is, of course, is where the title comes from, but it's just the lamest thing I've ever read.
Donna
Introduced fears about swimming more effectively than it "cured" them.
Marie
May 01, 2013 Marie marked it as to-read
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Amy Hest is a three-time winner of the Christopher Medal and winner of the BOSTON GLOBE-HORN BOOK Award. She lives in New York City.
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