Authors: Dick King-Smith
Clever Duck (8 page)
“I got that,” Rory said. “He's telling me I'm a good dog.”
The woman bent down and stroked Damaris's brown-and-white plumage, and she, too, spoke two words.
“What did she say to me?” asked Damaris.
“Haven't a clue,” replied Rory, as the farmer's wife said once more, “Clever duck!”
Visit a wonderfully silly nonsense world and the very unusual creatures that live there. You'll meet Wollycobble, Tumblerum, Og, and Ut as they set up house under the mishmash trees.
When a bad-tempered camel escapes from the zoo, he leaves a trail of havoc across the English countryside.
An adventurous family of mice strikes out in search of a new home and finds a completely different kind of life.
When a rampaging tyrannosaurus rex threatens the Great Plain, a pterodactyl and apatosaurus combine their unique skills to take him on in this hilarious adventure.
Text copyright © 1996 by Foxbusters Ltd.
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Nick Bruel
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First published in Great Britain by Puffin Books, an imprint of the Penguin Group
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eISBN 9781429925136
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
King-Smith, Dick.
Clever duck / Dick King-Smith ; illustrated by Nick Bruel.â1st American ed. p.cm.
Summary: When the pigs start picking on all the other farm animals, Damaris, who is a very clever duck, and her best friend, Rory the sheepdog find a way to enact revenge, only to find their plot backfiring.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59643-327-4
ISBN-10: 1-59643-327-2
[1. DucksâFiction. 2. Domestic animalsâFiction. 3. FarmsâFiction. 4. Revengeâ
Fiction.] I. Bruel, Nick, ill. II. Title.
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Fiction.] I. Bruel, Nick, ill. II. Title.
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First American Edition October 2008
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