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Mabel makes friends with a very odd duck who thinks he's a cat.
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From Kirkus Reviews
In this whimsical charmer from New Zealand, a child named Mabel finds a duck on her doorstep--a duck that makes it clear that it thinks it's a cat: it says ``Meow,'' drinks milk, and stalks mice. Determined to straighten it out, Mabel provides properly labeled pictures (some of them from familiar illustrators) and finally points out, when the duck has been chased up a lamppost by a dog, that, as a duck, it can fly down. So it does, and ``You were only joking, weren't you?'' says Mabel. ``Quack,'' says the duck. Last scene: a cat turns up, remarking ``Quack.'' The spare, repetitive text is deliciously understated and easy enough for beginning readers. Nature illustrator Gaskin, new to picture books and to Americans, makes the dogged duck's ``odd'' behavior seem altogether plausible, nicely amplifying the humor in the carefully chosen details of his realistic watercolors. Amusingly offbeat, with pleasantly mind-teasing undercurrents concerning logic and identity. (Picture book. 3-9) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From Publishers Weekly
This unique picture book, an import from New Zealand, deserves high marks for freshness and originality. When Mabel encounters a strange duck on her doorstep, she greets it politely. "Meow," responds the duck. " 'Odd,' said Mabel. 'Very odd.' " And the oddness escalates, as the bewildered girl tries to figure out this "very different sort of duck" that relishes such feline pursuits as playing with yarn, drinking milk and catching mice. She posts labels depicting various cats and ducks in hopes of clarifying matters: "The duck changed the labels over." When the canny non-quacker is "treed" atop a lamppost, it decides to own up to its roots, and flies to the ground--" 'Quack,' it said." Taking wing from its nonsensical premise, Gordon's tale owes much of its loopy fun to her forthright, tongue-in-cheek telling. In an inspired--and unexpected--pairing, Gaskin's realistic art adds just the right touch of absurdity to these topsy-turvy proceedings. Ages 2-6.
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