Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Reissued classics get new looks for a new audience. Duck for President by Doreen Cronin, illus. by Betsy Lewin, returns for the upcoming 2008 election with updated cover art. As Duck spreads his wings at the podium, the donkey in the blue tie to Duck's right (how's that again?) stands in front of a placard reading "Duck Is Great" and the elephant in the red necktie, to Duck's left, crosses his arms in front of the "For 2008!" sign. (S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 40p all ages ISBN 9781-4169-5800-0; Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-This award-winning team returns with a third story of farm animals with ambition. Duck is tired of doing his chores (mowing the lawn and grinding the coffee beans), and decides to hold an election to replace Farmer Brown. When he wins, Duck quickly realizes that running a farm requires too much hard work, and sets out to run for governor. With the help of the hens, and speeches "that only other ducks can understand," he eventually ends up running the country. Executive office gives him a headache, however, so Duck returns to the farm to work on his autobiography-on a computer, with the typewriter from Click, Clack, Moo (S & S, 2000) in the wastepaper bin next to him. Lewin's characteristic humorous watercolors with bold black outlines fill the pages with color and jokes. Cronin's text is hilarious for kids and adults and includes a little math and quite a bit about the electoral process. The animals, who have no verbal language that humans can understand, are empowered by the use of the written word, and the subliminal message comes through loud and clear-one can almost hear youngsters thinking, "Watch out grown-ups! Just wait till I learn to read."-Jane Barrer, Washington Square Village Creative Steps, New York City (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
Duck, of Click, Clack, Moo fame, organizes an election at the farm. He wins his first election and runs for higher and higher office until Duck is President of the United States. Duck learns that it is ""no fun"" to run a country and retires to write his memoirs. There are plenty of jokes in the story and in Lewin's lively expressive watercolor illustrations; but much of the humor is directed toward adults. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
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