Farmer Duck: Candlewick Storybook Animations [Audio CD]

Martin Waddell (Author), Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up | Series: Candlewick Storybook Animation

A hardworking duck is rescued from life with a lazy old farmer in this classic tale of justice from Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury.

Farmer Duck isn't your average duck. This duck cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm—all because the owner of the farm is too lazy to do these things himself. But when Farmer Duck finally collapses from exhaustion, the farmyard animals come to the rescue with a simple but heroic plan.

Candlewick Storybook Animation packages include:
* A full-color hardcover picture book
* A dual-disk DVD/CD with full animated story and two audio read-along
versions of the text — one with page-turn prompts
* A full-color poster, plus a sheet of reusable stickers!

With bonus author interview

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 1—This versatile title offers a unique package of interactive opportunities. Martin Waddell's winning tale (Candlewick, 1992) of a duck who is overworked by the lazy farmer and the farm animals who band together to help him and exact revenge on his master is complemented by Helen Oxenbury's humorous watercolor and pencil illustrations which have been moderately animated. The female narrator uses onomatopoeia to tell the story, and appropriate piano and banjo music complement the telling. The reverse side of the DVD contains a CD read-along with two readings of the story: one is identical to the DVD narration, and the other contains page-turn signals and is read at a slower pace, without as many sound effects to distract emerging readers. This delightful tale of community and perseverance will be useful for story times as well as independent viewing.—Kirsten Martindale, formerly Menomonie Public Library, WI
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Audio CD
• Publisher: Candlewick; Har/DVD/Ps edition (September 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076363512X
• ISBN-13: 978-0763635121
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 0.4 x 11.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,018,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars NOT a good book, February 21, 2011

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This review is from: Farmer Duck: Candlewick Storybook Animations (Audio CD)

This book is TERRIBLE. This book teaches kids that adults/bosses/land-owners/the guys in charge (via Farmers) are terrible, lazy and abusive and glorifies the idea that an uprising by the little people/common folk (the abused, over-worked non-land-owners) is good and necessary and would bring fairness to the world. All joking aside, this gorgeously illustrated children's book is a perfect, snuggly fit for the socialist/communist propaganda tag. Here's what it teaches: Kick the bad, lazy, land-owning farmer out the door and take over his farm for the benefit of the workers (a la workers of the world unite!). Unbelievably, this stuff is out there, people, and here is your perfect example. Tangentially, has anyone out there ever met a lazy farmer? I guess there's got to be one out there, but I know a lot of farmers and I've never met him. Nevertheless, THIS is what the authors' imaginations were driven to come up with for the benefit of our children? I WILL read this book to my daughter someday ... i.e. when she's old enough to understand that ill-formed, incorrect messages can be propagated to children through cute stories and beautiful illustrations. The folks who think this book is brilliant are either simply not paying attention to what their kids are learning, or are, at least according to my principles, 100% politically wrong-minded.