Ducks in Muck

by Lori Haskins, Valeria Petrone (Illustrator)

Ducks in muck. Ducks stuck in trucks. Trucks stuck in muck. How will the trucks and ducks get unstuck?

Discover what happens to a group of friendly ducks when they play in the muck and then are taken away in a truck!

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals, Realistic Fiction

32 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1999

Reviews

[Rod Brown]

Some dudes in trucks capture some ducks and put them in cages.

To relocate them? To eat them? Who knows!

But then their trucks get stuck in muck and everything goes downhill from there, depending on your point of view.

At less than fifty words long, this is about the silliest sort of story I can tolerate.

My daughter enjoyed it when she was a toddler.

[Sara]

terrible awful book, hate it, don’t care, preschoolers probably don’t like it either

[Rochelle]

The first story Toby read all the way through. Hooray!

[Dalton Prather]

Rhyming words are a plus in this book. This book is also a pretty easy read.

[Amy]

I like that the muck allowed the ducks to escape their kidnappers.

[Lauren Stone]

This book is great for beginning readers, since there are one to five words per page. The whole book rhymes, so it would be great for students who are also learning to rhyme words.

[Alexa Durso]

Um if this counts as literature than anyone can write a book no offense. I read it to one of my kids in my class so I am counting it towards my reading goal.

[Yelim Kwon]

Ducks in Muck by Lori Haskins

1.No Awards
2.Preschool and Kindergarten
3.Ducks are in the trucks but the trucks are stuck at muck. More ducks came to help the ducks. More trucks came to help the trucks.
4.This book is designed for preschoolers and kindergarteners who are just getting ready to read. The words are very easy and big. Full of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition.
5.Reading time for younger students.

[Tessa Klebaum]

Funny and a ready to read book for children developing their skills. This book has lots of sight words and words that kids hear everyday to develop their skills.

[Kathy Gunn]

Cute story about some ducks who were playing in muck and were captured and put into the back of a trucks. The trucks start driving and soon find themselves stuck in the muck. Delightful little story with words that rhyme with ducks. Easy for beginning readers.

Themes: rhyming words, ducks, beginning reader, trucks

Ideas: Fun read for beginning readers. Read aloud and pick out the rhyming words. Practice making predictions from the cover through the story.

Easy Reader Picture book

[Sarah Sammis]

Like many early reader books, Ducks in Muck uses short rhyming words and very little punctuation to tell its story of some ducks, some trucks and a big puddle of muck.

Ducks in Muck reminds of the Sheep series (Sheep in a Jeep, et al ) by Nancy Shaw and Margot Apple. Both place animals in unusual situations for the sake of rhyme but do pay off with cute, albeit simplistic, punchlines.

[Lindsay Rogers]

This book would be both a fun and appropriate read for a beginning reader. There are only a few words per page and the text rhymes. The story is sweet too; the ducks begin in the muck, then men come and try to take them away, but they escape in the end!

[Jenna Arntz]

This is a good book for children who are just beginning to read chapter books on their own. This story is an easy read about a duck who is playing in the mud. There are not many words in the book and they are all in large font. I would recommend this book to second grade students.

[Cheryl]

Wren and her cousin Kira both adore this book. It's simple, it rhymes, and it's kinda funny.

[Stephanie Tuell]

this book is ideal for younger children just starting to read. each page has only like 5 words at the most on it. there is a lot of rhyming to make it simpler to read.

[Aurora]

My daughter loves this one!

[Ellie]

Not my favorite story, but a GREAT book for really young kids (age 3 or so). Or for new English learners. Very simple. Cute art. :)

[Angel]

Cute!!

[Avaj]

Adorable! Let the little ones build on their word, recognition one word at a time, while they build confidence with the change of each page.

[Larissa Langsather]

I liked that my 7 year old could easily read this to my 2 year old- so cute!

[Maya]

by myself - way too easy for me already!

[Heather Booth]

Why five stars? This was the first book my daughter read to me.

[Darlene]

Great first reader for my son. He read it to his Dad start to finish.

[Kevin Denizard]

1) no awards
2)pre-k to kindergarten
3) The book follows the story of a group of ducks stuck in cages on trucks that also gets stuck in the muck. Thanks to the aid of other ducks the trucks and duck get free at the end
4) I love how the illustration shows off the ducks facial expression and also how the book use repetition and rhyming
5 To expose the children to basic rhyming, and also read it to them on a rainy, muddy day.

[Brittany Williams]

No Awards
Appropriate Grade Levels: Pre-K-1
This is a cute story is about ducks who were playing in some muck. Those ducks were captured and put into the back of a truck. The truck soon finds itself stuck in the muck.
I think this book is super cute! The illustrations are adorable! It is an easy read for most kids, which is good.
You could use this book for beginning readers and you can also use it to teach rhyming.