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Edward Lear's The duck & the kangaroo
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Edward Lear's The duck & the kangaroo

Author: Edward Lear; Jane Wattenberg
Publisher: New York : Greenwillow Books, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : English : 1st ed
Summary:
A wholly original tribute to the author of The Owl and the Pussycat, containing inspired collages incorporating images from the nineteenth century including several of Lear's own drawings, Duck overcomes "cold feet" and wins Kangaroo's heart in a story of adoration, acceptance, and adventure.
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Genre/Form: Nonsense verses, English
Children's poetry, English
Picture books for children
English poetry
Juvenile fiction
Poetry
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Edward Lear; Jane Wattenberg
ISBN: 9780061366833 0061366838 9780061366840 0061366846
OCLC Number: 247961104
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Other Titles: Duck and the kangaroo
Responsibility: illustrated by Jane Wattenberg.

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Meet Duck. Duck has a yen for travel and adventure. Duck also has some very wet, cold feet and a gift for loyalty and compromise. Meet Kangaroo. Kangaroo has been around the world and back, and is  Read more...

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"Top marks for visual exuberance; this is the first separate edition of the verses available in this country in decades."--Kirkus Reviews

 
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