Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Another playful color lesson, the paper-over-board Duckie's Rainbow by Frances Barry starts out as a quarter-circle and doubles to a half-circle when youngsters open the cover. As readers follow the feathered heroine's journey "through the red poppy field," "under the orange bridge" and onward, the book continues to change: the pages, decreasing in size, begin to form a large rainbow that stretches across the book's full width-with the colors in their proper order (ROYGBIV). (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Duckie is hurrying home to her nest. On the way she encounters a field of red poppies, an orange bridge, yellow corn, and more. This deceptively simple, fan-shaped concept book is wonderfully creative. Each spread adds its color to an arc at the top of the page; at the end, Duckie sees a beautiful rainbow. The pages are graduated so that when opened the book is a half-circle showing the rings of color. The collage art is basic and the hues are bright. Duckie will appeal to preschoolers, especially toddlers, and be a great addition to storytimes.-Elaine Lesh Morgan, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR (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
This fan-shaped book opens to a semicircular spread featuring Duckie, who is walking home through a red poppy field; then she hops under an orange bridge, and so it goes until, five spreads later, she sees a ""beautiful rainbow"" resulting from the layering of the preceding pages. The book is imaginatively constructed and mildly instructive but too slight to resonate. (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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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Duckie hurries across paper collage scenes on double-paged spreads of supersaturated color, each one smaller than the last. When opened, each set of pages forms a half-round of extra-heavy card stock, backgrounds awash in the stated color. Duckie starts out in a red poppy field, and "hopped under the orange bridge . . . and waddled around the yellow cornfield." After the green tree and the blue pond, she gets caught in an indigo shower that gives way to a brilliant rainbow on the final opening, thanks to the increasingly smaller pages. Young viewers will be drawn to the quarter-circle shaped cover, and mesmerized by the hues within this dazzling prelude to Lois Ehlert's "Rainbow" titles. Fans of The Very Hungry Caterpillar will be pleased, too. A bright and appealing debut for the diaper set. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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