Customer Reviews

Animal Emergency #2: Ducks in Danger

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I love this series! It brings excitement and knowledge at the same time. You learn things about animal emergencies to help you if you ever came upon an emergency. They are an excellent read for any age, depending on how well you read.

My son recently chose this book for a school book report. We were talking about the main theme of the book, the main characters etc. As I quizzed him about the book, I became increasingly frustrated because all he could remember was that the book was about wolves...?

I continued to press him. I said "The title of the book is?" "Ducks in Danger" he said. "Why is it called that?" I said. "I don't know." He said. "The duck get's bitten by a FOX." "Huh?" I said. Then he said "but the main thing is that there are wolves..."

At this point I berated him for not taking time to read the book properly. We ended up getting silly over the thing, and then we came to Amazon.com to see if there was a synopsis. Lo and behold, there were no reviews - but there was an excerpt...about TARANTULAS!

I am really disgusted with this author's style of writing. My son did a book report last year on the Abandoned Puppy, and it was equally bad.

I would have rated this a "1" except that for reasons unknown to me - he likes the stories. This style of writing is commercial at best or at worst - pandering to children. I was angry that my kid could not articulate the plot of this story - only to find out that there was none. I would not buy these books for my kids. If they have to have them, go to the library.