How Do You Count a Dozen Ducklings?

By In-sŏn Chʻae

Book Overview

A mama duck with a dozen eggs has to do a lot of counting. Mama counts her ducklings one by one as they hatch, but soon she finds clever new ways to count to 12--by twos, threes, fours, and sixes. How... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807517186
• ISBN13: 9780807517185
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 3 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

A cute little story where a wolf understands a duck's quack-quack language.

I thought this was a wonderful children's book. The text was interesting and the illustrations were great. And there were 15 scenes (2-pages each), so it was not too short or not too long. This book is a 2006 US issue of a 1999 book first produced in Korea. The story is about a mother duck that has 12 little ducklings to look after when they hatch. To keep track of them she thinks up various ways to group them so she doesn't have to count to 12 every time. The different ways she counts not only makes for a great story, but also helps teach your kids a little bit about basic mathematics. I would have liked the book better if the ducks had been some other animal that could have realistically been able to group together to fend off a wolf. And it could have been a little more realistic if a critical point in the story had not relied on the wolf being able to understand the duck's language. But what the heck, it's a little kids' book and I'm sure kids will love having it read to them and they will learn from it, too. 4 stars!