This unusual bathtime story will easily float with the target audience. Textured plexiglass gives the multicolored ocean a remarkably watery feeling, and the duck is endowed with subtle, poignant changes of expression. Caldecott winner Wisniewski (Golem), using his celebrated cut-paper technique, employs a jovial palette that promises a happy ending. Finally buffeted onto a beach where many of his shipwrecked pals are likewise drifting ashore, Ducky is picked up by a friendly boy who takes him home to the bathtub, his destiny. He is nearly eaten by a shark and his brightly colored toy friends inadvertently abandon him. Bunting (Smoky Night) uses simple declarative sentences that emphasize the plump duck's fear and isolation. Clarion Books, 15 (32pp) ISBN 978-5-5 As the authors note explains, a true story inspired this plucky survival tale: in 1992, a crate of 29,000 bath toys washed. ""I am a yellow plastic duck and I am in great danger,"" begins Ducky. Here one of those toys gives his account.
As the author's note explains, a true story inspired this plucky survival tale: in 1992, a crate of 29,000 bath toys washed overboard from a Hong Kong cargo ship, and hundreds of the toys have since turned up on beaches, primarily in Alaska.
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