Tricia O
08-21-2007, 06:26 PM
The Duck in the Gun (http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/BookPreview?bookid=belduck_00200023&summary=true&categories=false&route=text&lang=English&msg=) by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Edward Sorel
We checked out this book from the library and enjoyed it. It was funny. The inside flap of the book jacket says:
The General was furious and his soldiers were perplexed. There they were, all ready to start the war, and now a duck had built her nest in the mouth of their only cannon.
The General tried to be practical. But the Prime Minister of the opposing side didn't think he ought to give the General his cannon . . . or lend him money to pay his restless troops. What was to be done?
After several false starts, the characters in Joy Cowley's fable, as drawn with satiric verve by Ed Sorel, manage to fumble their way to a solution that is exactly right as it is unexpected.
We checked out this book from the library and enjoyed it. It was funny. The inside flap of the book jacket says:
The General was furious and his soldiers were perplexed. There they were, all ready to start the war, and now a duck had built her nest in the mouth of their only cannon.
The General tried to be practical. But the Prime Minister of the opposing side didn't think he ought to give the General his cannon . . . or lend him money to pay his restless troops. What was to be done?
After several false starts, the characters in Joy Cowley's fable, as drawn with satiric verve by Ed Sorel, manage to fumble their way to a solution that is exactly right as it is unexpected.