
Vintage bookshelf · 1970s
The Little Duck
- First published
- 1976
- Reading stage
- Picture books & shared reading
Reading this with your child
This 1976 book uses photographs to follow a duckling through the early stages of its life. It’s a lovely change of pace for children who prefer real animals over illustrated ones during shared reading.
For visual discovery, familiar read-alouds, and lap reading.
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Publication history & sources
This book is in the Publishers Weekly historical bestseller survey. Inclusion in that survey documents its cumulative popularity, but does not establish a specific sales rank within the 1970s.
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