During a storm, 10 rubber ducks fall into the sea.
The toys are then loaded onto a freighter destined for faraway countries.
The story opens at a factory where assembly-line workers are painting details onto bright yellow rubber ducks. STARRED REVIEW *“Carle takes an actual incident, when numerous bathtub toys fell off a container ship and floated to various places, and distills it to create a marvelous counting/concept adventure. Inspired by the true story of these ducks at sea, Eric Carle has imagined their voyage in the wide open waters and the creatures they meet who live in and around the ocean. (Feb.10 Little Rubber Ducks fall overboard and land on shores all around the world. A ducky tale indeed, as sublimely simple and endearing as the playthings it portrays. While mother and babies "Quack" goodnight to the moon, the new addition chimes in with a chipper "Squeak!" (a sound chip allows readers to hear it for themselves). Full-page collage images give way to full-spread compositions as the 10th rubber duck meets with the most satisfying fate (it encounters a real Carle's jaunty renderings of these creatures and use of crisp verbs make this a lively journey: a dolphin jumps over the first duck, a pelican chatters at the fifth, a whale sings to the ninth. As the ducks drift in different directions, the counting and ecological aspects of the tale emerge one by one the toys encounter a critter from various ocean habitats. When a wave washes one box into the sea, its contents fall out ("10 ducks overboard!" the ship's captain theatrically announces).
After little yellow rubber ducks pop out of "the rubber duck machine," their beaks and eyes receive dabs of paint, and the toys are packed 10 to a box and loaded onto a cargo ship. ) characteristically jewel-toned collage art with a breezy text whose intermittent repetition lends it a song-like cadence. Inspired by a 2003 newspaper story about a shipment of yellow rubber ducks that fell overboard from a container ship, this winsome story pairs Carle's ( Mister Seahorse
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