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Disney's Darkwing Duck The Silly Canine Caper
Darkwing Duck and Launchpad have to learn why other agents are turning silly and forgetting their missions.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
24 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1992
About the author
Justine Korman Fontes
444 books62 followersJustine Korman is the author of over 600 children's books, including mega-selling adaptations of Disney hits like THE LION KING, plus her original popular GRUMPY BUNNY series for Scholastic.
Justine has been writing all her life. She worked part-time in publishing while earning her B.A. in English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa from New York University. While an editorial assistant at Golden Books, she met her future husband and partner, Ron Fontes, an artist in the Whitman Comics department, who moved on to mighty Marvel Comics.
When Justine started getting freelance writing assignments, Ron pitched in and a children's book writing team was born! Ron brought visual storytelling, theatre, and history; Justine enthusiasm, humor, and a straight-A attitude.
In 1988, the couple moved to Maine, where they have written everything from beginning readers and novelty books to historical fiction and graphic novels.
Justine's hobbies include fitness, juggling, gardening, cooking, and playing the ukulele. She also enjoys making movies with Ron.
The prolific couple's goal is to write 1001 children's books.
Justine has been writing all her life. She worked part-time in publishing while earning her B.A. in English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa from New York University. While an editorial assistant at Golden Books, she met her future husband and partner, Ron Fontes, an artist in the Whitman Comics department, who moved on to mighty Marvel Comics.
When Justine started getting freelance writing assignments, Ron pitched in and a children's book writing team was born! Ron brought visual storytelling, theatre, and history; Justine enthusiasm, humor, and a straight-A attitude.
In 1988, the couple moved to Maine, where they have written everything from beginning readers and novelty books to historical fiction and graphic novels.
Justine's hobbies include fitness, juggling, gardening, cooking, and playing the ukulele. She also enjoys making movies with Ron.
The prolific couple's goal is to write 1001 children's books.
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May 9, 2024
Puppies puppies puppies puppies puppies puppies duck quack puppies puppies puppies
July 23, 2016
This was one of my all-time favourite books when I was a kid. I loved Darkwing Duck, and I read this book over and over.
April 29, 2021
While part of me was tempted to only give this 3 out of 5 stars because the story isn't all that exciting, I ended up giving it an extra star for two reasons - one, because I know someone with a young nephew who really enjoys this book, meaning that this book actually suits the audience it was written for, and two, because this Little Golden Book has some interesting history to it regarding the production of the actual TV show.
In that this book may be an adaptation of a cancelled episode of Darkwing Duck.
Anna Matronic is a bit of an interesting character because both her and her little robot puppies exist with character models and everything in the show and have existed since Season 1, but she never actually got an episode of her own. Beyond a single cameo in one of the episodes, she only exists in various book and comic adaptations. While there isn't any official confirmation that this is the case, chances are very good that this book was once an idea for an episode, with discarded episode outlines usually ending up in the comic strips and books around this time, and common fan consensus is that this almost ended up fully animated.
Does this make Anna Matronic's scheme and reason for targeting S.H.U.S.H. fascinating? Well...no. From what the book seems to imply, she turned evil because she accidentally created a weapon when trying to program robot AI, and then immediately decided to attack a secret agent organization for fun rather than going "hmm maybe I should rob some banks first BEFORE attacking a bunch of highly trained professionals armed with global organization funding and top secret gadgets". She later gets defeated because she looked into the barrel of her own ray gun and fired, by the way.
The average person can read this book with the knowledge that this is a cancelled episode of Darkwing Duck and go "yeah I can see why they didn't make a 20 minute episode with this premise" because it probably would've ended up as one of those filler episodes everyone skips, like "Water Way to Go" and that one episode where Darkwing and Gosalyn switch bodies.
However, this does make a book a fascinating little curiosity and I'm rating this high because people looking up information of this book tend to be adult Darkwing Duck fans who are purchasing old books from the 90's to fill their collection. I doubt any children are going to be reading this book in the 2020's. Read it for the cancelled Darkwing Duck villain, skip the whole silliness plot.
In that this book may be an adaptation of a cancelled episode of Darkwing Duck.
Anna Matronic is a bit of an interesting character because both her and her little robot puppies exist with character models and everything in the show and have existed since Season 1, but she never actually got an episode of her own. Beyond a single cameo in one of the episodes, she only exists in various book and comic adaptations. While there isn't any official confirmation that this is the case, chances are very good that this book was once an idea for an episode, with discarded episode outlines usually ending up in the comic strips and books around this time, and common fan consensus is that this almost ended up fully animated.
Does this make Anna Matronic's scheme and reason for targeting S.H.U.S.H. fascinating? Well...no. From what the book seems to imply, she turned evil because she accidentally created a weapon when trying to program robot AI, and then immediately decided to attack a secret agent organization for fun rather than going "hmm maybe I should rob some banks first BEFORE attacking a bunch of highly trained professionals armed with global organization funding and top secret gadgets". She later gets defeated because she looked into the barrel of her own ray gun and fired, by the way.
The average person can read this book with the knowledge that this is a cancelled episode of Darkwing Duck and go "yeah I can see why they didn't make a 20 minute episode with this premise" because it probably would've ended up as one of those filler episodes everyone skips, like "Water Way to Go" and that one episode where Darkwing and Gosalyn switch bodies.
However, this does make a book a fascinating little curiosity and I'm rating this high because people looking up information of this book tend to be adult Darkwing Duck fans who are purchasing old books from the 90's to fill their collection. I doubt any children are going to be reading this book in the 2020's. Read it for the cancelled Darkwing Duck villain, skip the whole silliness plot.
March 19, 2018
While it is a book written from an episode of the show, i still fully enjoy it. I wish they would bring Darkwing Duck back.
June 20, 2021
This is not an overly exciting book to read, but it is still enjoyable and the kids were at least able to endure it without too much coaxing to stay focused on the story.
December 2, 2019
I doubt this was a cherished childhood favorite since I only vaguely remember it -- I know I did watch Darkwing Duck as a kid, so I'm not surprised as I had some books too.
As an adult, it's a pretty short, uninspiring story. The word "idiot" is used, so be aware. It's just a rushed story -- and not all picture books have to feel rushed! But many that are based on TV or movie characters do because they don't have their own internal bookishness to ground them. I wouldn't recommend it.
As an adult, it's a pretty short, uninspiring story. The word "idiot" is used, so be aware. It's just a rushed story -- and not all picture books have to feel rushed! But many that are based on TV or movie characters do because they don't have their own internal bookishness to ground them. I wouldn't recommend it.
December 7, 2015
Love it like the TV series.
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