DUCK IN THE TRUCK

Jez Alborough, . . HarperTrophy, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-443833-9

"A deliciously percussive rhyming story of a feathered truck driver who becomes mired in muck and the three animal Good Samaritans who try and help him," wrote PW. "A quacking good read-aloud." Ages 3-6. (Apr.)

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