Summary: These rubber ducks are produced in a factory, and are packaged 10 to a box. The little rubber duck (10th rubber duck) floats along with them.” The mother duck and her ducklings swim toward their nest. Golden Quote: “At the end of the day, the sun sets again. Setting: The setting starts in the factory but primarily the story takes place in the ocean.

China: Harper Collins Publisher, 2005.Ĭharacters: 10 little ducks and various sea creatures. This is not a selling point per se, but it is an extra bonus to an already fun and educational book. The book's text actually flows all the way to the back cover, where a 'press here' button elicits a squeak from one of the rubber ducks.

Another clever Easter egg is that Carle named the cargo ship in his book 'Bobbie,' the name of his wife. Though not noted by the publishers, the book can also be used for discussing basic economic concepts regarding production as it begins with the ducks being manufactured on an assembly line before being packaged and shipped 'to faraway countries.' Yet all of this learning is not forced but rather presented in an entertaining way.Ĭarle notes that he wrote the book based on a newspaper clipping describing a 1992 shipment of bath toys being lost at sea, which is a interesting tidbit on so many levels.

The book jacket notes how it serves as an introduction/reinforcement of cardinal and ordinal numbers, allows for exploration of directional words (i.e., up, down, right, left), and provides 'a very simple first view of biology and geography' through the featured sea animals in their various habitats. While it does serve that purpose, it is much, much more. I picked it up on a whim, thinking it might work as yet another counting book I could share with my toddler class. The rubber ducks each drift off in different directions, encountering various ocean animals along the way.Īs this book was written when I was already an adult, it is an Eric Carle title that I had no previous knowledge of when I saw it on a local library's shelves. A box containing 10 toy ducks falls off a cargo ship, releasing its contents into the ocean.

Ten little rubber ducks