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What's Up, Duck?: A Book of Opposites (Duck & Goose)

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This colorful boardbook uses some charming drawings of four birds to illustrate the concept of opposites. There is a yellow duck, a gray duck, a blue songbird and a white goose. The words for the opposites are on each page.

Each scene shows the birds outside in the grass, doing opposite actions:
* First they stand forward, then backward.
* The gray duck screams while the blue bird whispers.
* The gray duck leaps for joy while the goose sheds a tear.
* The goose is close, the yellow duck stands far away.
* The yellow duck walks slowly while the gray runs quickly.
* The goose is clean, the yellow duck is muddy.
* The yellow duck barely lifts the heavy goose while the gray duck balances a light feather.
* The yellow duck has a butterfly on its head while the goose looks at one down on the ground.
* Finally, the goose is awake while the other three birds sleep.

This book is absolutely adorable! If you've read anything else by Tad Hills, you know he has a great sense of humor and the illustrations in this book make our family laugh! They also so clearly demonstrate the opposite that my 2 year old reads this aloud to us, using the pictures as a guide. A wonderful starter book of opposites that is also really fun.

I like this book. My girls love it and is a great way to teach opposites. It is very simple my 2 year old knows it by heart. I do add say for clean I say the "opposite" is dirty so they have that reference of the word opposite.

Our duaghter loves the duck and goose books. This is a good one but not the best one - go for the feelings book. This is probably the 2nd best one of the series.

Duck and Goose have all sorts of adventures together, and this one is another winner. Simple enough to keep the youngest babies interested. This book demonstrates opposites - happy/sad, fast/slow, etc. with one word pages that will help children learn quickly. Adorable illustrations.

My son loves ducks, so we got this book and he really enjoyed it. The pictures are adorable. This is a simple book that teaches opposites with darling drawings.

I am now looking forward to reading the other Duck and Goose books!

My 18-month old son loves this book, and so do I. The text and illustrations are simple, sweet, and playful. This is a wonderfully educational and cute book.

My daughter (12 months old) loves this book. The pictures are adorable and illustrate the simple concepts (up/down, heavy/light) well and in a way that supports and encourages further explanation of the concepts during reading (i.e., describing the differences between the pairs of pictures helps explain the differences between the pairs of concepts).

This board book features amusing and colorful illustrations of Duck, Goose, and friends demonstrating pairs of opposite words. For example, in the clean/dirty pair a clean, white Goose is standing with his eyes closed and hands up warding off an extremely dirty Duck who's approaching him from the opposite page.

My daughter, who is still too young to comprehend opposites, loves to look at the pictures and point at Duck, and the sturdy board book can withstand her strong and awkward grip as she flips the pages.

This book is an entertaining way to introduce new vocabulary and the concept of opposites to preschoolers who will definitely get a laugh at the funny scenarios and facial expressions on the characters.

This is a great book for preschoolers. We have the other books: Duck & Goose, and Duck,Duck,Goose. The books are fun to read and the illustrations are perfect for kids.