The Runaway Duck

David Lyon
Published by Hippo
0-590-70497-4, £1.75

A delightful and strangely moving picture story about a toy duck that is accidentally taken on a long journey and is lost abroad. The pictures are imaginatively combined with the test to tell of a little boy's longing for his lot possession. I like picture books that can be enjoyed on a literate and sophisticated level by eights to tens: this is one of those.

Reviewed in BfK No. 42 (January 1987) by Colin Mills (CM)
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