Little Quack's New Friend
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • NICE LITTLE LESSON HERE AND THE LITTLE ONES LOVE IT.
  • Love this book!!!
  • Great Illustrations
  • Charming illustrations, perrfect for bedtime reading
Little Quack's New Friend
Lauren Thompson
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0689868936

Book Description

Widdle, Waddle, Piddle, Puddle, and Little Quack think there's nothing more fun than playing with one another. But one day a new creature splunks into their pond.

HE RIBBITS, HE LEAPS, AND HE'S GREEN!

At first Little Quack is shy. But pretty soon he just might be quacking AND ribbiting a new tune: MAKING NEW FRIENDS RULES!

With rhythm and spirit, acclaimed author Lauren Thompson sails a key lesson about growing up, in Derek Anderson's splendidly illustrated pond.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars NICE LITTLE LESSON HERE AND THE LITTLE ONES LOVE IT........2007-09-22

The cover of this book (I am reviewing the hardback), is enough to catch your eye and it will certainly catch the eye of your child. I recently had the pleasure of reading this one to a group of pre-school kids, and not one child was unhappy with the choice of book. I even got requests for seconded readings! That is a nice endorsement for any childrens book. This work is actually a bit of a mini-lesson in accepting those that may be a bit different..i.e. it is okay if the other kid is green rather than yellow, it is good to have diverse friends. The bold, simple art work in this one is an absolute delight to the eye. The text is simple and repetative and the characters are just simply cute. The little duckling and little frog are pretty typical you children and our little human children can certainly identify with them. Actually, there is not very much not to like about this book. Highly recommend.

5 out of 5 stars Love this book!!!.......2007-08-27

My 2 year old has fallen in love with Little Quack. Ever since reading "Little Quacks Bedtime" she's been obsessed. Since I'm a push-over, I've purchased every book in the Little Quack series and while she LOVES them all, this one is her favorite. We've read it everyday for about a month now. I think it's all the fun sounds she gets to make as she reads along with me. I would recommend this book highly!!!

5 out of 5 stars Great Illustrations.......2007-03-23

Such a cute book. Little Quack reminds me of my little one. Beautiful Illustrations

5 out of 5 stars Charming illustrations, perrfect for bedtime reading.......2006-06-02

Little Quack's New Friend by Lauren Thompson and illustrated by Derek Anderson is a completely delightful children's book. The bright cover got me to bring it home from the library and the clever story entranced my 3 year old daughter. Little Quack and his siblings: Widdle, Waddle, Piddle, and Puddle meet a new friend Little Ribbit, and they play together. The illustrations are amazingly charming, the words just repetitive enough for my daughter to enjoy what's coming next without me wanting to tear out my hair, and even my twelve year old daughter sat through a reading. My husband declared it adorable. It has a sweet, easy message of getting along despite our differences which is perfect for this age group. I've ordered other books in the series from the library, and if they are as good as this one, they will probably become Christmas presents.
Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations: Two Plays
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Nobody does it like Mamet
  • SO BAD I HAD TO WRITE A REVIEW
  • Whoroscope and the Fowl Permutations
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations: Two Plays
David Mamet
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 080215011X

Book Description

The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations “a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless.”

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Nobody does it like Mamet.......2007-03-29

Kazerinsky destroyed this play when he made the movie "About Last Night." Read the play, enjoy the language and the irony. Mamet is the best.

1 out of 5 stars SO BAD I HAD TO WRITE A REVIEW.......2003-12-25

I wish i could give this no stars because I was very dissapointed. I got "Sexual Perversity" thinking it would be as good as the movie "About Last Night". Wow, was I wrong. The dialogue is disheveled and the only character worth any praise was Bernie. I read it and if I never saw the movie I would never know what it was about. There is no plot and the scenes are so short and abrupt you never know what you just read.

Take my advice and do not purchase this book. I am in acting and I would not even pay a dollar for this book. There is no material to work from.

Don't buy - you will be deeply dissapointed like me. Too bad because I really like David Mamet, but I don't even want to read "Duck Variations" or anything else he wrote. I read "Oleanna" and I thought it was original. NO MORE MAMET for me, until he can pull a 180 and twist my opinion of him around!

4 out of 5 stars Whoroscope and the Fowl Permutations.......2001-03-27

Forget *Swingers*, forget *High Fidelity*, forget Tarantino's trash-talking hoods, David Mamet got there way before these belated young Turks. *Sexual Perversity in Chicago* is a brilliant, in-your-face series of vignettes sloshing through the muck of modern relationships. Two men and two women lock horns in a lewd scrimmage of blackly funny narcissistic power-plays, a despairing search for flitting, short-lived solace and pleasure, blasted by cruelty, impatience, tooth-and-claw feral soliloquy on why the opposite gender is one-part vampire, one-part Machiavel, can't live with them, can't sell them for parts (tee-hee).

Metropolitan swingers circling the drain of mean-streets cynicism and tough-talking bachelorhood, trawling the muddy waters of singles bars and yuppie night spots, searching for that ephemeral ounce of pleasure in a world of subterfuge and delay, mind-games and cruel deception, an odium of broken expectations and buried dreams.... Funny as the play is, it's distressing to have our noses rubbed in this point-blank opprobrium of our own basest impulses, the Spirit of Revenge which contaminates many of our frantic attempts to love and be loved.

Refreshingly, the women in Mamet's play seem much more interesting than the men, if only because their cynicism is more richly varied, more intellectually pungent. As shellshocked veterans of the gender war, it remains difficult to decide whether Mamet's scenarios are A: exaggerated worst-case aberrations, or B: (gulp) true-to-life tableaux on how perversely we are prone to behave toward one another, a vicious circle of paranoid self-hatred razing the purlieus of conventional "happiness" (or post-coital afterglow, once the bar is dropped).

Mamet suggests that at the outer limits of cynical self-abasement, human beings will "experiment" with cruelty the same way an S&M enthusiast would assay with handcuffs and bullwhip, the minds and hearts of anonymous lovers beaten like a Teletubbie pinata with the broomstick of our own wounded narcissism.

*The Duck Variations* is a classic low-budget scenario about two post-Beckettian bumps on a log pontificating on life, death, and the migratory patterns of Midwestern fowl. In the mind's eye theater I was forced to cast Jack Lemmon and the late Walter Mathau as Emil and George, two grumpy old men shadow-boxing in the dusklands of existential twilight. Mamet seemed still unable (or unwilling) at this point to write a full-length, tightly plotted drama, but the fragmentary dialogue presented here is brilliantly caustic, evocative, piercing and droll. Emil's and George's sedentary anxiety over the park wildlife that play out and exemplify the human condition, their ability to sublimate the necrophobic terrors of old-fogeyhood with caustic wit and good-natured foreboding, is presented with dashing brilliance and aplomb, a wonderfully true friendship between two men skirting the edges of karmic inquiry. Written in Mamet's early twenties, *The Duck Variations* exemplifies the brash virtuoso cunning that would go on to contribute *Glengarry Glen Ross* and *Speed-the-Plow*, amongst other masterworks, and is still worth reading a quarter-century later. (Also recommended for young actors as an exercise in brevity, timing, precision, and economy of affect.)

All in all, this book represents Mamet-in-embryo, the birth of a playwright, another fine anthology of one-liners and intellectual jousts to make the reader's anxieties seem a little less peerless and unparalleled, a little less alone in the world.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant Wordsmith.......2001-01-04

David Mamet proves time and time again that he has mastered the language of men and women alike. Sexual Perversity is an abrasive but honest look at the state of sex in the minds of adults during the post-collegiate and early career building years. Mamet, as in all of his plays, shows honest humanity in tangible, easily-believed characters. The language is obscene & perverse but horrificly true-to-life and natural. Working with nothing more thant stereotypes, he chisels out characters so real and so vivid as to leave the audience thirsting for more. David Mamet has proven himself time and time again that he is a not only the definitive analysis of pop culture and modern trends, but also a brilliant wordsmith as well.

4 out of 5 stars Nature, the Duck, and Death.......2000-08-18

Nature, the Duck, and Death...is it all morbid useless talk? Not to David Mamet. In his play, The Duck Variations, the true ways of this fowl creature are discussed humorously, leaving the audience or the reader in stitches. I personally used an excerpt of this piece this past year for duo interpretation for my speech and debate team, and I promise that these ducks never let us down. A great play for those who like different approaches to theatre.
Eight Modern Plays: Authoritative Texts of the Wild Duck, Three Sisters, Candida, the Ghost Sonata, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Long Day' (Norton Critical Editions)
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  • A Perfect Collection
Eight Modern Plays: Authoritative Texts of the Wild Duck, Three Sisters, Candida, the Ghost Sonata, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Long Day' (Norton Critical Editions)

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5 out of 5 stars A Perfect Collection.......2000-04-10

This collection defines modern drama. From Ibsen's realistic masterpiece The Wild Duck, to Pirandello's brilliant and revolutionary Six Characters in Search of an Author, to Eugene O'Neill's pitch-perfect character study Long Day's Journey Into Night, this collection is the epitome of modern dramatic literature in all its variations. Even the criticism for each play is brilliant. A definite recommendation for serious readers who haven't read any of these, but want to.
An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Three Wonderful Plays by the Master of Modern Drama
  • An Enemy of the People is agonizingly brilliant.
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Book Description

Taken from the Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, and Rosmersholm.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Three Wonderful Plays by the Master of Modern Drama.......2003-07-02

A professor of mine told me that AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE is not a very good play, so I read it myself to find out...and I disagree with my professor! I think AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE is a powerful play on the timeless theme of the individual's relation to society. The "mob scene" in Act IV is a particularly intense piece of dramatic writing that reminded me of the "trial scenes" in such later, American plays as THE CRUCIBLE and INHERIT THE WIND. Several years ago I saw an outstanding local production of THE CRUCIBLE; I would love to see AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE onstage as well.
THE WILD DUCK, however, is my favorite play by Ibsen; I definitely agree with those critics who say that it is his masterpiece. I have read it three or four times, and each time I am amazed at Ibsen's skill. The play is a painful, poignant exploration of lost innocence, embodied in the character of Hedvig, a young girl on the verge of womanhood. If I could see only one more Ibsen play onstage (I've already seen HEDDA GABLER and THE LADY FROM THE SEA), it would be THE WILD DUCK. In fact, I'd love to direct it myself someday!

5 out of 5 stars An Enemy of the People is agonizingly brilliant........1997-11-29

While Ibsen's other two plays in this volume are great, neither can come close to the genius of, An Enemy of the People. Dr. Stockmann's battle for truth against the self-interested masses is perhaps the most agonizingly wonderful exploration into truth and individuality. Ibsen is a master.
Dimity Duck
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    Dimity Duck
    Jane Yolen
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    World-renowned author Jane Yolen and Sebastien Braun have created a delightful new character full of childlike curiosity and adorable whimsy. Young readers will have an instant favorite friend in Dimity Duck.
    Just Ducky
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • A wonderful story for a toddler
    • A charming, full-color picture book story
    Just Ducky

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    Sometimes you can be your own best friend.

    Ducky wants to enjoy the beautiful day,
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    Every parent who has heard their child say, “There’s no one to play with,” will nod their head with understanding delight as Ducky discovers his new friend. Even the youngest children will figure out what’s really happening long before Ducky does in this lyrical story that’s sure to leave them smiling. Along the way they too will discover that being “just Ducky” is just ducky fun.


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    5 out of 5 stars A wonderful story for a toddler.......2003-01-23

    My 20 month old requests this special book over and over again. The illustrations and rhyme are wonderful. This is a terrific choice for a toddler interested in a story.

    5 out of 5 stars A charming, full-color picture book story.......2002-12-13

    Engagingly written and energetically illustrated by Kathy Mallat, Just Ducky is a charming, full-color picture book story about a playful young duckling who enjoys splishing and splashing all day long. Just Ducky is enthusiastically recommended as being a simple yet great choice for young people just beginning to learn the joys of reading.
    Toddler Story Book: Silly Goose and Dizzy Duck Play Hide and Seek
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • A great tale for the toddler set!
    • My sons wouldn't let go of this book!
    • VERY silly friends! VERY cute, silly friends!
    Toddler Story Book: Silly Goose and Dizzy Duck Play Hide and Seek
    DK Publishing
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    This new volume in the charming DK Toddler Story Book Series presents a tale for young children (ages 1 to 3) to enjoy over and over. Simply told, with bold, colorful artwork, Silly Goose and Dizzy Duck is a perfect addition to any family's library. These two good friends try to outwit Clever Fox in a game of hide and seek. As Clever Fox counts to ten, the friends try to find hiding places.

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    5 out of 5 stars A great tale for the toddler set!.......2007-07-06

    Silly Goose and Dizzy Duck Play Hide and Seek is a fun tale that will have little ones begging for repeated readings. The illustrations are simple yet colorful, and the lack of clutter in terms of number of characters [only four - goose, duck, fox & bear]& even the simple backdrop actually enhance the story. It is a whimsical tale that will delight young ones, and makes a great addition to the home library!

    5 out of 5 stars My sons wouldn't let go of this book!.......2003-10-15

    I just read it to them this afternoon and they fought over who gets to hold it! They love it that I can change the nuances of my voices in keeping with Dizzy Duck and Silly Goose, Clever Fox and Grizzly Bear. It is a fun book for me to read to them and it's a fun book for them to listen to and to look at!

    The pictures are bright and colorful ~~ and the characters are a lot of fun to hear about.

    If you are looking for an easy read, this book is it! Your children will be delighted with the bright colors and with the story line. It's easy. It's a great beginner's book if you're interested in teaching your children to read. It's a delightful addition to your children's library!

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    5 out of 5 stars VERY silly friends! VERY cute, silly friends!.......1999-12-10

    Silly Goose & Dizzy Duck are very good friends (one is put in mind of Ernie & Bert of Sesame St. fame or Toot & Puddle by Hobbie). They are, however, not the brightest bulbs in the waterfowl chandelier, and so when they take a walk and find Clever Fox following them, they automatically assume he wants to play hide & seek.

    This leads to some absolutely hysterical situations as Duck and Goose try to hide while Fox (with a wide grin and pointy teeth) counts to five. Goose tries a hollow log, but is too fat. Meanwhile, Duck tries to climb a tree, but realizes he's afraid of heights. A holly bush proves to be too prickly and the river too cold. In final desperation, Goose & Duck hide in a pile of leaves and behind a pile of rocks.

    Children of all ages will undoubtedly find these preposterous hiding places very funny, especially as Clever fox--tongue licking his lips--zeros in on duck's hiding spot, prominently exposed by Duck's elevated, feathered rump as he attempts to hide amongst a pile of rocks much smaller than he.

    When Fox has Duck in a gentle throttle (Duck is smiling, but his tongue is sticking out of his orange bill), he turns to find that a new player has joined the game, Grizzly BEAR! "BOOOO! Boomed Grizzly Bear." And that, as they say, is that! Fox runs off, arms akimbo, leaving Goose and Duck to be a bit miffed at Bear who "'frightened our friend', grumbled Silly Goose. 'And spoiled our game,' said Dizzy Duck. 'You'll have to play instead.'"

    Ms. Grindley & Mr. Reynolds have produced a masterpiece of the very sort of slapstick that young children thrive on. The clear, uncluttered illustrations of wide-eyed waterfowl searching for hiding places against the clock made me laugh right out loud. The text is bold, big and easy to read. In addition, the text is arranged graphically in such a way that the very words add to the story. "Booo! " for example, consisting of systematically smaller italicized type and "leaped into the air" being bent up and down in a semicircle to illustrate movement will not only guide parents/caregivers on how to read the story, but will encourage children to pay more attention to the text itself than they might otherwise do if the text sat on the page in a more static manner.
    The Wild Duck and Other Plays: Pillars of Society/ The Wild Duck/ The Lady From the Sea/ Little Eyolf/ John Gabriel Borkman/ When We Dead Awaken
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      Duck Hunting
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        Aleksandr Vampilov
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          Inspired Cable Knits: 20 Creative Designs for Making Sweaters and Accessories
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          Inspired Cable Knits: 20 Creative Designs for Making Sweaters and Accessories
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          Internationally acclaimed knitwear designer Fiona Ellis shares the meditative power of “mindful” knitting in this collection of 20 stunning cable designs. Enriched by notes from the author about the spark behind her creative process, Inspired Cable Knits is ideal for intermediate and returning knitters looking for a new approach to a traditional technique.

          Fascinated by nature’s wonderful variety of patterns and textures, Ellis offers new twists on cable knits. Inspired by the beauty of sand rippled by the tide, the grooves and ridges of tree bark, jagged lightning bolts, and yoga poses—these patterns are beautiful and unique. Ellis, whose designs have been acquired by many top names in the fashion industry, explains cable knitting thoroughly and offers step-by-step instruction and charts for each pattern.

          In this collection of 20 original, inspired designs, Ellis combines her extensive fashion expertise with her own creative approach. This unique selection of cable patterns ventures out of the predictable realm of vertical columns and constant repetition and into the spontaneous territory of a variety of natural designs. Each pattern is combined with easy-to-follow instructions, diagrams, and Ellis’s own thought-provoking “mindfulness” pointers to keep the mind engaged while the fingers are knitting. The four themes of change, nature, energy, and time present a range of captivating styles for the entire family. From sweaters to tank tops, yoga bags to pillows, wraps to scarves, each of the 20 patterns offers an opportunity to tune into a mindful approach to knitting.


          The book’s 20 unique patterns are grouped according to the four themes that have shaped Fiona’s design philosophy: change, nature, energy, and time. This book encourages knitters not only to create everything from sweaters to tank tops, yoga bags to pillows, and wraps to scarves, but also to experience and think about the artistic process. Unwind with Fiona Ellis’s Inspired Cable Knits.

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars inspired cable knits.......2007-02-18

          i have always liked to do cables. so when i saw a sweater knitted from this book i decided to purchase it. i have started one of the patterns and have found it challanging which is what i was looking for. i plan to make several of the patterns in this book.

          3 out of 5 stars Some beautiful sweaters, but yarn and gauge info is missing.......2006-07-22

          While I like many of the sweaters in the book, even as a very experienced knitter I find the instructions problematic. First, I would like to see a picture of the WHOLE SWEATER, front & back. Artsy little pictures of a small section just don't interest me. Secondly, since I frequently substitute yarn, I would like yardage and gauge in stockinette stitch info. I don't want to have to knit 1/2 of a sweater's front or back to find out if my yarn will work. And, even when gauge in stockinette stitch is given for a few of the projects, I would never be able to achieve the designer's gauge. For a dk yarn that would normally knit at 22 stitches to 4 inches, this designer knits 30 stitches to 4 inches. This makes it impossible for me to estimate the correct gauge for any of the sweates and makes the instructions pretty useless. Very frustrating.

          5 out of 5 stars IF YOU LOVE CABLES LIKE I DO? THEN YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK TOO!!.......2006-06-08

          I love working any type of cables and celtic or aran designs, but LOVE CABLES MOSTLY! The more Intricate the Better! I found these designs to be very easy to follow, especially from the charts, and the Beautiful, Up Close, photos were very helpful for the visualization part. You definetely should have some knitting years behind you, this is not for your average novice knitter(unless you are a very determined one, like I was). I have already made the one shell design, which turned better, than the Photo actually!! I will definetely be making and returning to this book for more beautiful Cable Inspiration and wonderful hours of Knitting Pleasure to come in the months and years ahead! THANK-YOU! FOR SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND INSPIRATIONAL COLLECTION OF CABLE DESIGNS, I COULDN'T BE MORE PLEASED!!!

          1 out of 5 stars A big disappointment!! .......2006-05-09

          If you want aran knitting, buy "Aran Sweater Design" by Janet Szabo, "The Best of Knitter's Aran & Celtics" or"Aran Knitting" by Alice Starmore, those are excellent books, this book lack originality and good information. The 'one star' is for the photographer.

          1 out of 5 stars disappointing and pretentious.......2006-04-18

          As an experienced knitter (35 years+) this book should be just right for me but I was very disappointed. The graphics and print are very hard to read. Schematics are very tiny. I'm not interested in a life philosophy of knitting, but in cables. Yarns are mainly Canadian so lack of more information on yarns needed and gauge is critical and lacking.Gauge is given over the cable pattern instead. If I knit anything here, I would have to redesign each one first. Why knit the scarf in two halves? No explanation given. One sweater uses I-cord at the bottom but no advice on how to knit without those i-cords. Best projects are for little kids. Not recommended. Buy the new Szabo book instead.

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