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Moo! Grr! Awoo! Fun animal sounds in a story where a community bands together to help two adorable ducklings.

Peep-peep! Brother and Sister Duck are lost. Everyone must help! Moose will try to call Mama and Papa Duck with his earth-shattering bellow. Moooo! Wolf will use her piercing howl. Awooo! and Bear his Grrr! What finally attracts Mama and Papa, though, are the sweet peep-peeps of their little ones. A story about cooperation, community, and noisy fun! Hooooot!

Ink and watercolor paintings are masterful, charming, and joyful.

Perfect for fans of Moo, Baa, La La La!

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ISBN-13:	9780823441075
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	02/12/2019
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Valeri Gorbachev has illustrated more than fifty children's books, half of which he also wrote. His book Me Too! was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year and received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal. A native of Ukraine, Gorbachev now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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"This tender story of parental love is an excellent choice for one-on-one sharing, but groups will also relish making the animal sounds and chiming in on the repetitive phrases."—School Library Journal

"Their expressions, along with the letters flowing from each critter’s mouth ('Awoooooooo! Awooooooo!'), make this story more funny than alarming . . . Lots of story-hour potential here."—The Horn Book

"This is a message of quiet voices drowning out a cacophony of sound. It is a cautionary tale advising us to listen to hushed and vulnerable voices."—School Library Connection

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Winter 2018
PreS-Gr 1–When Brother Duck and Sister Duck receive a package containing nets, they take off into the woods to "catch things." Despite Mama Duck's advice to stay close to home and Papa Duck's warnings about getting lost, the siblings wander too far and are unable to find their way. Ms. Owl hears their distressed "Peep! Peep! Peep!" and summons the forest animals for help. But neither Mr. Moose's "earthshaking bellow," Ms. Wolf''s "piercing howl," Ms. Fox's "shrill scream," nor Mr. Bear's "fierce growl" brings Mama and Papa. Finally, all the animals cry out together, the forest becomes "a very noisy place," and the parents come running. Stating it wasn't the individual animals' summonses nor the combination of their deafening cries but rather the "sweet peep-peep-peep of [their] dear little ducklings" that alerted them, Mama and Papa take their little ones home. Gorbachev's cartoon illustrations created with watercolors, gouache, and his signature inked crosshatchings, depict clothed forest animals who surround the ducklings as they cry on a tree stump. Large letters splash the animals' collective sounds across the page above the ducklings' tiny peeps. VERDICT This tender story of parental love is an excellent choice for one-on-one sharing, but groups will also relish making the animal sounds and chiming in on the repetitive phrases.—Marianne Saccardi, Children's Literature Consultant, Cambridge, MA

School Library Journal

2018-10-15
When Brother Duck and Sister Duck receive a gift of butterfly nets, the siblings go against Mama and Papa Duck's wishes and wander off into the woods, lost in the chase to catch any small critter that crosses their path.
When nightfall suddenly catches the ducklings in the middle of the forest and the reality of being lost hits the ducklings, their cries are heard by Ms. Owl, who gathers the forest animals to call out for Mama and Papa Duck. The illustrations depict a comical, lively character ensemble of distinct personalities. One after another, each animal howls out their unique distress call: Ms. Wolf's "piercing howl," Mr. Moose's "earthshaking bellow," Ms. Fox's "shrill scream," and Mr. Bear's "fierce growl." Eventually, it is the combination of simultaneous animal screeching that leads the Duck parents to their lost ducklings, who send up their own peeps into the night. At the end, the Duck parents deny hearing all of the other animals that helped the ducklings, confessing to only hearing their ducklings' "sweet peep-peep-peep" amid the noise. Gorbachev's friendly cartoons depict clothed, anthropomorphic forest animals, the ducklings' urgent body language instantly recognizable. The animals' vocalizations will make for rousing read-alouds.
This easy-to-follow-along tale with its happy-family ending will make for a great bedtime story. (Picture book. 3-6)

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