Reddit mentions: The best children duck books

Oh, I <3 looking for books for my kids!! They are 14, 13, 12, 11, and 5. Our son is the youngest, and he loves all the books that his older sisters loved when they were younger. :D

Oh my gosh...Get those kids some books!

• This is my favorite children's book.
  
  
• The Story of Ferdinand.
  
  
• This is one of my son's favorites...IronMan!.
  
  
• The Day My Mommy Quit.
  
  
• Dragons Love Tacos.
  
  
• If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
  
  
• I'd Know You Anywhere, My Love.
  
  
• The Day The Crayons Quit.
  
  
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
  
  
• Boom Chicka Rock.
  
  
• Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Mama Hook Knows Best: A Pirate Parent's Favorite Fables with CD.
  
  
• Are You My Mother?.
  
  
• Love You Forever.
  
  
• I Love You, Stinky Face.
  
  
• The Runaway Bunny.
  
  
• Oh, The Places You'll Go. Cool idea I saw on Pinterest with this book: Buy a copy and have each of your kids' teachers write a little note somewhere in it at the end of every year. Give the book to your kid as a graduation gift. I am doing this with our son now, I saw the idea too late to start it for our girls.
  
  
• Ten Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed.
  
  
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
  
  
• The Velveteen Rabbit. -- A HUGE FAVORITE!!
  
  
• Locomotive.
  
  
• Sleep Like A Tiger.
  
  
• The Lion And The Mouse.
  
  
• Blueberries for Sal.
  
  
• David Gets In Trouble.
  
  
• Press Here. This is a very fun book!
  
  
• The One and Only Ivan.
  
  
• The Polar Express.
  
  
• Flotsam.
  
  
• Only One You.
  
  
• Beautiful Oops!.
  
  I would love this book for our oldest daughter if I win, please.
  
  /u/DrUsual...can you think of any?
  
  Thank you for the contest!

Little Blue Truck has been a favorite in our house for years - enough so that it's my go-to baby shower and toddler birthday present. Excellent rhythm, animal noises, and a sweet message about friendship.

One Duck Stuck - Really great noises and again a nice message about helping.

(We do read books that aren't about being stuck in the mud...)

I Love You, Stinky Face - great title of course, and an awesome imaginative, loving conversation between mom and child. I often suggest reading this if we've had a hard day.

And a sweeping endorsement for Dahlov Ipcar - though her board books tend to be collections of "greatest hits" of illustrations from her many (somewhat lengthy) story books. Still good!

3 years old in April:

1. 30, but will still sometimes get one or two teens out of order. If we prompt with the next number after she gets to the nine (39, 49, etc), she will go all the way to 100.
   
2. Yes, and random billboards and store signs as well.
   
3. Yes, but sometimes will say five seven instead of fifty-seven.
   
4. Yes, she can say the letters in order by herself
   
5. Yes, with qualifications. She will write each letter, but hasn't figured out how to write the letters a line yet, so they are written in a jumble on the page.
   
6. We read her "potty books" each time she needs to go to the bathroom. (Yeah potty training! Flush The Potty and No More Diapers for Ducky are her favorites). A few months ago I started saying the wrong words on purpose and she would correct me. Now I open the page and show her the picture, and she pretends to move her finger along the words as if she is reading to me. She knows every word in both of them, plus a few other books we read at bedtime.
   
   We have a church-based Mother's morning out program nearby, but the teachers there have a developed curriculum from 18 months through kindergarten they follow. Both our kids went there during the week (4 days, 4 hours a day) because they both craved playmates and structured activities. We also work with them at home, but sometimes having a non-parent work with them like that really helps.
   
   We skipped vacations to be able to afford to send them, and it has paid off so well preparing them for school. Our son is 6 and just graduated from Kindergarten. He can write simple stories, read books and toy instructions (lego, etc.) on his own, and even do basic arithmetic. If anyone lives in Orlando, FL (USA), PM for the name of the school.

• Anything by Mo Willems.
  
• Anything by Eric Carle
  
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?
  
• Gossie and Friends Books (note: there is another box set that adds "Booboo", which is a great book, but they are too small 4" square books instead of the 6" squares).
  
• Go Dog Go. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb. Hop on Pop. One fish, Two fish. Pretty much anything in the Dr Seuss early reader series.
  
• Goodnight, Moon.
  
• Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site.
  

I'm going to guess from your username that your real name is Suzy. Nah, but let's see. You seem like you're in your late teens, early twenties. I'd caution an even 20 years old. You're artistic and enjoy drawing, which you are quite good at though you are humble in regards to your skill. Also, you're quite friendly and try to be talkative when you can since you consider yourself to be a quiet person.

I work with children with CP (well, really a variety of children but some with CP). It is amazing what can be accomplished with early intervention. It is an incredibly hard road, but nothing is more amazing than seeing them take those first steps or speak those first words. Congrats on this first milestone and all that will come in the future. Although I can't predict what those milestones will be, I can predict that she will continue to amaze you every single day.

Suggested reading.

HI! First, sorry if this is long winded! We just got rid of the pacifier for our two year old over the Thanksgiving holiday. Like you, she was only a night time user. But, it was her security, and she always had to have 3 in her crib when she fell asleep (one in mouth, one in each hand). I was worried about going cold turkey for the same reason, especially cus' it was WWIII when her pacifiers fell out of the crib in the middle of the night! We went with the Paci Fairy idea. I also got a couple books which we read for about 2 weeks before D-day. Basically, we talked about how we had to give the pacifiers away to the Paci Fairy, and she would in turn give her a present. That night we gathered all the pacifiers, put it in an envelope and wrote a note to the fairy and left it outside the door. I gave her a new teddy bear to snuggle and in the morning she woke up and found her present outside. She did surprisingly well with it all; she didn't even cry when I left her room that night. There wasn't even a lot of crying in the night. We did get up maybe 4-5 times the first night to settle her, 2 times for the next two nights, and then shes been back to sleeping through the night ever since. The nap has definitely been harder than night time. I actually threw all the pacifiers away to not allow myself to give in if things were tough. I think the books were the most helpful. Especially this one, cus' the duck is alsoa bedtime exclusive user. I also go the Bea Gives Up Her Pacifier one, but I didn't like how they tell the toddler to think about food when you miss your pacifier... seemed to send a weird message. GOOD LUCK!

I don't know, but if "It's Useful to Have a Duck" isn't on the list, then it's meaningless! http://www.amazon.com/Its-Useful-Have-Duck-Isol/dp/0888999275/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317924452&sr=8-1

Also, I think Boing Boing usually has a best books list with really unique books. My husband bought me a bunch two Christmases ago off of one of their lists (I'm a school teacher) and we now have a 5 month old. I love that we have really unique books.

Hey guys! I’m super excited.. my first children’s book arrives at my house today! Physical copies at least.
Check out the link below to see it on Amazon. (Y’all self publishers on here know how amazon algorithms work. The more page views/wish list adds.. the better your chance of being found on there)So help me out. And if you’re interested.. pre-order it now! Or message me if you’d like to collaborate on anything in the future.

Fright or Flight https://www.amazon.com/dp/154399122X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_jgVUDbGAMH0MB

Over in the Meadow

Little Blue Truck

One Duck Stuck

Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?

Sheep in a Jeep

Jamberry

The Napping House

Hand Hand Fingers Thumb

Bubble Gum Bubble Gum

This brought back great memories. Also, type any title into youtube to listen to a reading so you know if you like the book before buying. As for category, "animal noises" or "onomatopoeia" are good search terms.

Wow, doing an Amazon search on this brought back a bunch of books I loved as a little kid -- Make Way For Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal

Speaking of Maine oriented children's books, did you ever stumble across A Seal Called Andre

Wow, talk about some old, dusty memories... Thanks!

EDIT: Fixed links.

We have Duck Goes Potty and Potty Time with Elmo. My daughter likes both, but, in my view, the duck one is cuter and clearer. It also gets a bonus for including poop, which my daughter never fails to point out. I can't speak to their effectiveness since we haven't really started the potty-training process yet.

The second kids book that I worked on with my daughter, Chef Duck, is officially live on Amazon.com for pre-order for $10. Written by a kid, water colored by me (her dad). This is a fantastical journey full of random kid logic, evil balloons and chef battles.

>Everyone loves Chef Duck's fish pancakes and sea bacon, but one day, someone did not. When a review of her food turns sour, Chef Duck must quest to find the ultimate recipe and create the best fish pancakes and sea bacon the world has ever known!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733336907

I see! :) His name was Ping! Named after this book, one of my favorite short books. :)

There's "The Story about Ping": https://www.amazon.ca/Story-about-Ping-Marjorie-Flack/dp/0140502416

Not PopSci, but you may find it entertaining.

You may enjoy "How not to network a nation": https://www.amazon.ca/How-Not-Network-Nation-Internet/dp/0262534665

Make Way for Ducklings http://amzn.to/16vtdrC There are few books that make you want to go explore a specific city. Paddington, Madeline maybe... but Make Way for Ducklings made me want to go to Boston ASAP. It was so awesome to find little duckling statues in a park in Boston when I finally did visit. (on a side note, Blueberries for Sal made me want to go to Maine - but I haven't yet)

reading is awesome!

All explained in one of the best tech manuals ever: The Story about Ping. Explained so clearly it is like reading a children's book!

There's a great children's book entitled Duck! Rabbit! that cracks me up every time I see it: http://www.amazon.com/Duck-Rabbit-Amy-Krouse-Rosenthal/dp/0811868656/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411607744&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=duck+rbit

Fantagraphics will start a new collection of hardcovers in 2018 called Disney Masters by some great artists like Romano Scarpa, Luciano Bottaro and Daan Jippes:

https://www.amazon.com/Disney-Masters-Vol-Luciano-Scrooges/dp/1683961099/

https://www.amazon.com/Disney-Masters-Vol-Disneys-Survival/dp/1683961110/

Look, here's a good starting point:

Read this and you'll understand a lot more about troubleshooting this stuff.

p.s. The acronym MSP now means this, please update your links

I really like the gosling books by Olivier Dunrea. Gossie is the first. They are really cute and have some relatable situations for little kids.

This one when I started out we had a copy, apparently it was good luck.

There is a really cute kids' book called Ten Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle that he wrote after reading about this news story. In some of the versions of the book, he includes the original newspaper clipping he read about it.

Haha, this is just like one of my favorite books from my childhood.

Good Little Wolf by Nadia Shireen. This is a typical children's book and as I read it I thought i knew where the story would go, and boy was I surprised when I got to the end!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11407965-good-little-wolf

If you like Mo Willems then "That if Not a Good Idea" will also fit the bill.

https://www.amazon.com/That-Not-Good-Idea-Willems/dp/0062203096


Princess Pink and the Land of Fake Believe is a beginning chapter book series that will work. It's part of the Branches Scholastic series; it has lots of pictures and each book is a quick read. It is a series of fractured fairy tales where all the characters aren't what you expect them to be.

http://www.scholastic.ca/branches/princesspink.htm

The Paper bag Princess by Robert Munsch is another one. If you go to his web site you can listen to him read it.

http://robertmunsch.com/book/the-paper-bag-princess

Best tongue-in-cheek review I've seen in years. Now go here and read John E. Fracisco's review.

Ping! I loved that book as a kid.

PING! The magic duck!
Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitive explanation of one of Unix's most venerable networking utilities. Even more stunning is that they were clearly working with a very early beta of the program, as their book first appeared in 1933, years (decades!) before the operating system and network infrastructure were finalized.

The book describes networking in terms even a child could understand, choosing to anthropomorphize the underlying packet structure. The ping packet is described as a duck, who, with other packets (more ducks), spends a certain period of time on the host machine (the wise-eyed boat). At the same time each day (I suspect this is scheduled under cron), the little packets (ducks) exit the host (boat) by way of a bridge (a bridge). From the bridge, the packets travel onto the internet (here embodied by the Yangtze River).

The title character -- er, packet, is called Ping. Ping meanders around the river before being received by another host (another boat). He spends a brief time on the other boat, but eventually returns to his original host machine (the wise-eyed boat) somewhat the worse for wear.

If you need a good, high-level overview of the ping utility, this is the book. I can't recommend it for most managers, as the technical aspects may be too overwhelming and the basic concepts too daunting.

Problems With This Book

As good as it is, The Story About Ping is not without its faults. There is no index, and though the ping(8) man pages cover the command line options well enough, some review of them seems to be in order. Likewise, in a book solely about Ping, I would have expected a more detailed overview of the ICMP packet structure.

But even with these problems, The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage on the Windows API ("Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous, So that by fixing on its depths my sight -- Nothing whatever I discerned therein."), without shaking their head with deep understanding. But I digress.

http://www.amazon.com/Story-About-Ping-Marjorie-Flack/dp/0140502416

What do you have against geese? It wasn't a goose that gave you rabies! May I suggest you please check out "Duck & Goose": www.amazon.com/dp/037583611X

P.S. My deepest sympathy regarding your patio furniture.

Ten Little Rubber Ducks. My two-year-old loved it.

Ping is a duck.

For older readers, this review provides an excellent summary.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

The Little Engine That Could

Make Way for Duckings

Harold and the Purple Crayon

A Snowy Day

Do Not Open This Book

Someone else did it better.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0811868656/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1413430762&sr=8-1

Funny, my little boy has a book about this.

This is already a kid's book, and a fairly hilarious one, too.

For more information, please see Duck Rabbit

Gossie the Gosling books for recommended companion reading to this post

https://www.amazon.com/Gossie-Gosling-Go-Friends/dp/0618747915

https://www.costco.com/Gossie-and-Friends-Storybook-Library%3a-12-Book-Box-Set-by-Olivier-Dunrea.product.100336106.html

The Amazon review the author mentions can still be found: https://www.amazon.com/Story-About-Ping-Marjorie-Flack/product-reviews/0140502416/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_next_43?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&sortBy=recent&pageNumber=43

Don't forget The story about Ping

So is 10 Little Rubber Ducks, by Eric Carle

You be thinking of Ping the duck

Or this one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140502416/sr=8-1/qid=1143776236/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1832608-8440907?%5Fencoding=UTF8
(just the first comment)

Not quite about programming, but for networking "The Story About Ping". Check the first review:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0140502416/ref=cm_rev_sort/103-6924682-7370260?customer-reviews.sort_by=-HelpfulVotes&x=5&y=14&s=books

This ping?

It was written about in this academic book:
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Rubber-Ducks-Board-Harper/dp/006196428X

Here's the story about the Ping

The Story about Ping

10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle

Eric Carle did a book on this:

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Rubber-Ducks-Board-World/dp/006196428X

Eric Carle did a book about those duckies:
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Rubber-Ducks-Board-World/dp/006196428X

Duck! Rabbit!

The Story About Ping

There's a children's book entirely based on this premise:
http://www.amazon.com/Duck-Rabbit-Amy-Krouse-Rosenthal/dp/0811868656

And a duck.

Louis the Fish

Make way for Ducklings

Make Way for Ducklings
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0670451495/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Dx7NDbMA2VZ1C

Ping is a duck, not a loon.

Apparently they put collars on ducks as a way go fishing.

Speaking of which, I suppose it is amusing how people either loved or hated the book Ping. (I thought it was a terrible story when I was little)