Duck, Duck, Dinosaur: Bubble Blast

by Kallie George, Oriol Vidal (Illustrator)

Overview

It’s bath time for two little ducklings and one big dinosaur! Spike loves soap, but Feather and Flap don’t want to scrub. What will Spike do to make getting clean fun for everyone? This short, sweet, and very bubbly story will help show kids how much fun bath time can be.

Duck, Duck, Dinosaur: Bubble Blast is a My First I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for shared reading with a child.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062353115
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/16/2017
Series:	My First I Can Read Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	175,019
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 3.70(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kallie George is an author, editor, and creative writing teacher. She has written numerous books for children, including the Magical Animal Adoption Agency series, the Heartwood Hotel series, Wings of Olympus, The Lost Gift, and the Duck, Duck, Dinosaur I Can Read series. Kallie lives in British Columbia, on Canada’s Sunshine Coast, with her husband and son. Visit Kallie online at kalliegeorge.com.

Oriol Vidal is an illustrator and storyboard artist who lives in Barcelona, Spain. When he’s not drawing or painting, he loves spending time with his family outdoors. Many of the scenes in the Duck, Duck, Dinosaur books were inspired by his trips to camp as a child and summer nights full of lightning bugs. You can see more of his work at www.oriolvidal.es.

Editorial Reviews

2017-02-01
Two reluctant ducklings follow the lead of their humongous green sib to discover that bathtime is fun.Shifting format, the species-diverse family introduced in picture books Duck, Duck, Dinosaur (2016) and Duck, Duck, Dinosaur and the Noise at Night (2017) faces a new challenge when Mama duck announces "Time for a bath." Although they sport gooey splatters after playing in the mud, yellow ducklings Feather and Flap hang back—"Baths are not fun." "No bath. No bath"—but scaly theropod Spike leaps exuberantly into the pond: "BATH!" Mama's mentions of "soap" and "scrubbing" get similar responses from all three…but then Spike's "BUBBLES!" makes all hesitation vanish, and in no time the three hatchlings are bright, clean, and splashing about happily. Vidal's mud looks a lot like melted chocolate in the elementally simple illustrations so that at times the little ducklings resemble partially dipped marshmallow peeps, but the contrast between the delicate features of the small yellow birds and their towering brother's huge, blunt nose and feet is comic gold. Time for a scrub? It's all in the marketing. (Early reader. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews