For this auction we are offering the first edition volume of
The Duck Chronicles, Book 1: Ziggy, The Friendliest
Duck (Reader Edition).
This book was written by an award-winning author!
DESCRIPTION
The Story
Ziggy arrives at a bayside park as a young
adult duck. There, she lives alone as
the only duck in the park. She makes
friends with other animals and the
people who frequent the park. One day
a duck arrives who is not so friendly.
Ziggy must overcome bullying, ridicule
and loneliness even as she seeks to
find one true friend amidst the others
in the park who enjoy her outgoing
nature. Her willingness to respond
to kindness and friendship from all
who live there helps Ziggy achieve
her wish to make a true friend to
share her life with there in the park.
This book contains color and
B/W illustrations. Photocopy the B/W
illustrations at home or at a facility-based
learning environment as coloring book pages.
The final color image is a photograph of the
actual duck protagonists in this story.
This has Blank pages where children can write
responses to prompts about the story, create
their own illustration for something they have read,
or write a summary of the story are also present.
Several memory and interpretation prompts
are listed in a message to parents, teachers and
others who read the book to or with the child.
Play is encouraged both with coloring interludes,
learning to perform Ziggy's "dance", and word play
incorporated into the rhyming verses of the book.
Thus, visual, auditory and motor learning are
deliberately incorporated and are integral to
Ziggy's story!
There is also a SCIENCE COMPONENT: the
habitat and behaviors of many animals common
in an urban park are featured in the book.
This book was analyzed using several
measures to confirm its reading level & readability,
and was found to be primarily at 3rd grade level,
although that always comes with the caveat that
the reading level of the child impacts
their understanding of the story.
The author will happily sign the book and/or provide
a personal greeting if asked to do so by the buyer.
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