Author: Katie Cook
Illustrator: Colleen McKeown
Year: 2010
Publisher: Little Tiger Press, London
Age: 4 and above
No. of Pages: 32
ISBN: 978 1 84506 849 3
Quite often, children make the best friends for animals in need. Little Friend captures this fact through the sensitive story of a little girl and her duckling.
One chilly evening, Laura chances upon the hurt, little duckling. She befriends him and takes him home.
Laura gently nurses him to good health and soon, they are the best of friends. However, the call of the wild ducks tugs at the little duckling, who’s not so little anymore.
Laura knows she must prepare herself and her friend for a goodbye.
The book is beautifully illustrated with landscape images of windy grasslands and breezy glades. This is a wonderful book to encourage your child to explore the wonders of the living world.
Excerpt
All evening she hugged him tight, as the wild ducks called.
“You want to be with them, don’t you, Little Friend?” Laura whispered.
“I think I’ll have to teach you how to fly…
No comments:
Post a Comment