Yuck! Stuck In The Muck

by Corinne Demas, Laura Rader (Illustrator)

A humorous Level 1 Scholastic Reader about a duck, a truck, lots of muck, and a little luck!

Dog chases Duck into the swamp, setting off a very muddy chain of events. Chuck tries to pull Dog out of the muck and also gets stuck. One by one, each character gets stuck while trying to help another. At last, a helicopter rescues them, and Duck flies back to build a nest on the still-stuck truck!

Genres: Childrens, Animals, Picture Books, Fiction

32 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

About the author

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-nine books, including six novels (Daughters, The Road Towards Home, The Writing Circle), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948--1968), a poetry chapbook, and numerous books for children (The Littlest Matryoshka, Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Disappearing Island, The Perfect Tree). She is a Professor Emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College and a Fiction Editor of The Massachusetts Review. Along with her family, two donkeys, and a precocious puppy, she divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod, two settings that have inspired her books.

Reviews

[Analicia Chavez]

Did I like this book? Not particularly. Did my 3 year old son go absolutely nuts over it and now constantly pretends he is stuck in the muck? Oh yeah.

[Christy]

A humorous Level 1 Scholastic Reader about a duck, a truck, lots of muck, and a little luck!

Dog chases Duck into the swamp, setting off a very muddy chain of events. Chuck tries to pull Dog out of the muck and also gets stuck. One by one, each character gets stuck while trying to help another. At last, a helicopter rescues them, and Duck flies back to build a nest on the still-stuck truck!

[Talea]

Funny easy reader book that my daughter enjoyed.

[Nathan]

Read to me by my son.

[Greg S]

Pretty good. A little too short but it had my five year old practicing.

Sure, he memorized, but still, it’s not the books fault.

[Spencer]

2023

[Becky B]

Dog chases duck into the swamp and gets stuck. Soon, others find themselves also getting stuck in the muck as they try to rescue dog. Eventually everyone is safe and happy.

A cute, easy, humorous read that really reinforces the -ck in words.

[Amy Brown]

AR 1.3 Focus on the "-uck" sound (yuck, muck, stuck, truck)
Scholastic Reader Level 1
One after one different animals and people get stuck in the muck.

[Glennisha]

This is a good fluency fun book.

[Gloria]

Lots of rhyming words for children to hear as well as lots of words that end in the same sounds. Good book for beginning readers.

[Jill]

AR Level 1.3

[Muse Here]

This was kind of cute. The best part is the page after they all get rescued and each one is shown getting clean.