The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Dormer, Frank W.

Firefighter Duckies!

40 pp. | Atheneum | May, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-6090-3 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-6091-0

(2) PS Fresh out of the bathtub, three firefighting duckies careen from one wacky rescue mission to the next. "They are the Firefighter Duckies! They are brave. They are strong. They rescue... Whales in trees!" Dormer's outrageous plot relies on his comical digitally rendered illustrations to fill in what the well-paced text leaves out. The cartoon drawings feature relatively uncomplicated compositions on clean backgrounds, helping to contain the chaos.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2017