Quack

A two-in-one tale featuring a big book of fun and a little book of learning. This light-hearted story will have little ones quacking up as they follow along on one cuddly duck's adventure in search of his friends. How many animals can you count as you follow along? Flip the pages of the included little book to practice counting from 1 to 10! About the Big Book Little Book series: Double the books--double the fun! The Big Book Little Book series offers stories that make reading even more fun with concept learning tools to engage readers in more ways! Each Big Book story is accompanied by an attached Little Book that delves deeper into related concepts. Whether its opposites, counting, colors, or more, there's so much to learn in each story!

An assortment of animals gathers for a picnic.

A quirky, heartfelt story about anxiety, friendship, and finding your voice.

Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at “the first great educational institution for womankind” turned into an enthralling journey of self-discovery as she struggled to meet the high standards in Vassar’s School of Music while trying to shed her reputation as the daughter of a notorious quack and self-made millionaire: Mrs. Dr. Rebecca J. Keck, second only to Lydia Pinkham as America’s most successful self-made female patent medicine entrepreneur of the time. This lively, stereotype-shattering story might have been lost, had Cora’s great-granddaughter, Greta Nettleton, not decided to go through some old family trunks instead of discarding most of the contents unexamined. Inside she discovered a rich cache of Cora’s college memorabilia—essential complements to her 1885 diary, which Nettleton had already begun to read. The Quack’s Daughter details Cora’s youthful travails and adventures during a time of great social and economic transformation. From her working-class childhood to her gilded youth and her later married life, Cora experienced triumphs and disappointments as a gifted concert pianist that the reader will recognize as tied to the limited opportunities open to women at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as to the dangerous consequences for those who challenged social norms. Set in an era of surging wealth torn by political controversy over inequality and women’s rights and widespread panic about domestic terrorists, The Quack’s Daughter is illustrated with over a hundred original images and photographs that illuminate the life of a spirited and charming heroine who ultimately faced a stark life-and-death crisis that would force her to re-examine her doubts about her mother’s medical integrity.

When a little green frog hops into Little Quack's pond - the other ducklings are not at all sure if they should make friends with him - after all he sounds funny, he's green and he's not at all fluffy. But Little Quack wants to be frog's friend and soon persuades his brothers and sisters that hopping, splashing and jumping are all fun things to do - so Little Ribbit is soon very at home in his new pond.

Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.

One by one, four ducklings find the courage to jump into the pond and paddle with Mama Duck, until only Little Quack is left in the nest, trying to be brave.

It's time for Little Quack and his siblings to go to sleep... But there's something glowing in the dark, something hooting in the trees above, and something rustling in the reeds. There's just too much excitement for the ducklings to settle down! But when the stars begin to shine it just might be time for bed, at last.