He said that he had “a perfectly happy kindergarten year” and a first-grade teacher, “old Miss Frickey,” whom he remembered fondly because she was “kind and supportive” about his love of drawing. In some of his letters he described his childhood and early education in Syracuse, N.Y., where he was born in 1929. “It’s just how they eat cake.”) He said it was part of a “nonsense book” that he hadn’t finished yet. But the image of the man was upside down.
Another was of a man and his wife sitting in their kitchen eating cake with chocolate frosting. One was of a yellow duck - it looked more like a chicken - that was wearing pinstripe trousers and had big light-pink feet. It was the last of many letters, some typed, others handwritten, he had sent me through the years.Ĭarle, who died in May, often sent me pictures, too, sometimes a collage that he was working on. "As sublimely simple and endearing as the playthings it portrays," agreed Publishers Weekly.I’ve been looking at a letter from Eric Carle, written in a frail script in 2019, in which he told me that his health was failing. "Beautifully composed illustrations," said Booklist.
It's a definite 10," commented School Library Journal in a starred review. "A wonderful read-aloud for storytimes or one-on-one sharing. Small readers and listeners will empathize with the little duck's plight-and will rejoice at the heartwarming surprise ending. Each creature the ducks meet is seen in its own habitat and behaves in a true-to-life manner, offering a very simple first view of biology and geography.
But as the sun sets, the 10th little rubber duck is left all alone, bobbing helplessly on the big wide sea.įollowing the little ducks as they float to all parts of the globe, young explorers can see for themselves the meanings of directional words and learn simple math concepts, such as counting and the use of cardinal and ordinal numbers. One drifts west, where a friendly dolphin jumps over it. "Ducks overboard!" shouts the captain, as a giant wave washes a box of 10 little rubber ducks off his cargo ship and into the sea.
In Eric Carle's poignant and funny story, illustrated with strikingly designed collages, readers are taken on an exciting voyage of discovery. This classic picture book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Grouchy Ladybug stars 10 little rubber ducks and their globe-trotting adventures.
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