Customer Reviews

Ducks in Muck (Step into Reading, Step 1)

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Great book, simple and fun. My 5-year old was reading it in no time, and now he loves to impress everyone on how well he can read. Can't wait for the movie.

I am a co-teacher in a daycare with 18-27 month olds and this book is a definite favorite!! They ask to read it about a hundred times a day and just love the "quack quack" and "vroom vroom" sound effects we make to go along with the story. Some of them can just about read it to us all by themselves just by hearing it so often as well as the clear pictures. They love knowing where the missing boot is, and counting the trucks, as well as identyfing the colors. Great book!

My daughter is learning to read through a phonics-first method. We do drill, but it's hard to find books for leisure reading that are written in decodable phonics for kids who are just starting phonics instead of being written for instruction in sight-reading. This book is a great choice. Nearly all of the words are from the "uck" word family. It usually has only 1 to 4 words per page, but most of the pictures are complex enough to discourage guessing. My daughter loves the pictures, and she loves that she can sound out almost all of the words and read it herself! Additionally, she finds it an entertaining read, which is rare in beginner books. The author did a great job.

I have been reading this book to my son since he was four months old, making all the noises and he LOVE it!

Be advised that this book has very few words on each page. We love these series of books but were initially disappointed in how little words this book had. None the less it has grown on our 1 1/2 year old son and he now likes it because there are trucks in the book.

"Duck-in-muck...duck-in-muck..duck-in-muck!" That's what my 2 year-old son walks around saying as he holds this book out for my wife and I to read to him! He loves it! Great read aloud!

This book is really simple. I would recommend it to kids ages 3-6. It has rhyming patterns to help teach the kids how to read. It's about ducks and truck getting stuck in muck, the ducks get away but the truck is still stuck in muck.