Goose and Duck (I Can Read Book 2) [Hardcover]

Jean Craighead George (Author), Priscilla Lamont (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: I Can Read Book 2

Whatever I did, Goose did.
Whatever Goose did, Duck did.
When I sat down, Goose sat down.
Duck sat down too.

What's a little boy to do when a goose and a duck think that he's their mother? Especially when they follow him around, doing everything he does!

Newbery Medal winner Jean Craighead George's comic story and Priscilla Lamont's lively art make for a silly tale about boys, geese, ducks, and the rhythms of nature.

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About the Author

Jean Craighead George is the author of over eighty books for children and young adults. Her novel Julie of the Wolves won the Newbery Medal in 1973, and her novel My Side of the Mountain was a Newbery Honor Book in 1960. She has continued to write acclaimed picture books and novels that celebrate the natural world. She lives in Chappaqua, New York, and has had over 173 pets in the time she has lived there, among them geese and ducks.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (January 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061170763
• ISBN-13: 978-0061170768
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,188,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jean Craighead George was born in a family of naturalists. Her father, mother, brothers, aunts and uncles were students of nature. On weekends they camped in the woods near their Washington, D.C. home, climbed trees to study owls, gathered edible plants and made fish hooks from twigs. Her first pet was a turkey vulture. In third grade she began writing and hasn't stopped yet. She has written over 100 books.Her book, Julie of the Wolves won the prestigious Newbery Medal, the American Library Association's award for the most distinguished contribution to literature for children, l973. My Side of the Mountain, the story of a boy and a falcon surviving on a mountain together, was a 1960 Newbery Honor Book. She has also received 20 other awards.She attended Penn State University graduating with a degree in Science and Literature. In the 1940s she was a reporter for The Washington Post and a member of the White House Press Corps. After her children were born she returned to her love of nature and brought owls, robins, mink, sea gulls, tarantulas - 173 wild animals into their home and backyard. These became characters in her books and, although always free to go, they would stay with the family until the sun changed their behavior and they migrated or went off to seek partners of their own kind.When her children, Twig, Craig and Luke, were old enough to carry their own backpacks, they all went to the animals. They climbed mountains, canoed rivers, hiked deserts. Her children learned about nature and Jean came home and to write books. Craig and Luke are now environmental scientists and Twig writes children's books, too.One summer Jean learned that the wolves were friendly, lived in a well-run society and communicated with each other in wolf talk -- sound, sight, posture, scent and coloration. Excited to learn more, she took Luke and went to the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory in Barrow, Alaska, where scientists were studying this remarkable animal. She even talked to the wolves in their own language. With that Julie of the Wolves was born. A little girl walking on the vast lonesome tundra outside Barrow, and a magnificent alpha male wolf, leader of a pack in Denali National Park were the inspiration for the characters in the book. Years later, after many requests from her readers, she wrote the sequels, Julie and Julie's Wolf Pack.She is still traveling and coming home to write. In the last decade she has added two beautiful new dimensions to her words beautiful full-color picture book art by Wendell Minor and others and - music. Jean is collaborating with award-winning composer, Chris Kubie to bring the sounds of nature to her words.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A little boy, Goose and Duck are a charming and winsome trio !, May 23, 2009

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This review is from: Goose and Duck (I Can Read Book 2) (Hardcover)

A little boy found a goose egg by the lake. When the gosling hatched it just knew that the boy was his mother. "That's how it is with birds." He took him home and the little goose became very attached to him and did whatever he did. If he ate, hopped or went to bed the goose did the same thing. The next thing he found was a duck egg. When the duckling broke out of its shell, it saw the goose "and Goose became his mother."

Whatever the boy did Goose did. Whatever Goose did Duck did. They were a very winsome trio and had fun together all day long. When they tired, they went to bed. The boy was in a boy bed, the goose was in a goose box and the duck was in a duck box. Then one night Goose called for his mother, but the boy was asleep. Goose and Duck went out roaming the streets and a policeman picked them up. Of course Goose honked at the policeman and believed he was his mother. "Goose and Duck were arrested," said the neighbor. Off to the police station. Would the boy be able to get them back?

This is an exciting adventure story with very appealing art work that will encourage the young reader to make his or her way to the end to find out what happens to Goose and Duck. They will become self motivated, the book will help them develop strategies for decoding words and increase their reading fluency (to say nothing of having fun!). This is a level 2 book in the "I Can Read Series," one in which the reader can read with help and works on "engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play for developing readers."