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Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home - until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. Why is she there? Where did she come from? And, most important, how will she survive in her harsh surroundings? Roz's only hope is to learn from the island's hostile animal inhabitants. When she tries to care for an orphaned gosling, the other animals finally decide to help, and the island starts to feel like home. Until one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her....

Willow Feathers McBeaver, aka Detective Duck, is a crime-solving (and very precocious) little duck. She and her animal pals live on Dogwood Pond, a beautiful pond in New England adjacent to Lazy Days, a human campground. Dogwood Pond has always been a pristine spot with clear water, abundant wildlife, and shady willow trees, but now it is encountering puzzling problems—mysteries that arise from human-caused disruptions in nature, such as water pollution, refuse, warming climate, and human encroachment.

"Le vilain petit canard" est l'un des plus beaux contes d'Andersen. Il est aussi une source de réflexion. Rejeté par les autres à cause de son physique, ce petit canard y apprend, durement, que la différence peut aussi être une chance.

Written and narrated by Jimmy Kimmel, this audiobook challenges young listeners to bring the silly out of a very Serious Goose. Inspired by Jimmy's nickname for his kids, The Serious Goose reminds us to be silly in a serious way. Put your little comedians in front of a mylar mirror and challenge them to make this no-nonsense goose smile. This delightful audiobook is guaranteed to create gaggles of giggles time and time again!

To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can’t control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems….

For twelve-year-old Hailey, the upcoming annual family duck hunt is a chance to prove that she’s finally ready to join her family in the duck blind. She's also hoping that Cocoa, the excitable young dog she chose last fall against her parents’ advice, has what it takes to make a great retriever.

La petite poule qui voulait voir la mer lu par André Dussollier... un livre audio qui amusera les petits et les grands ! "Pondre, toujours pondre ! Il n'y a pas que ça dans la vie ! Moi, je veux voir la mer !" s'écrie Carméla, la petite poule blanche. Son père, le coq, n'a jamais rien entendu d'aussi fou. "File au nid", ordonne-t-il à la poulette. Mais Carméla n'arrive pas à s'endormir... et aimerait bien prendre le large !

In the fifth volume in the New York Times best-selling Pigeon series by Mo Willems, Duckling asks for a cookie - and gets one! Do you think Pigeon is happy about that?

Connaissez-vous Carmen, la petite poulette qui en a sous le crête ? Son frère, Carmélito, le téméraire petit poulet rose ? Leurs copains Coquenpâte, Coqsix, Molédecoq, Hucocotte et les autres agités du poulailler ? Voyages, humour, émotion, frisson et fantaisie... Voilà ce que vous trouverez dans cette compilation des sept premières aventures des P'tites Poules. ​La petite poule qui voulait voir la mer. Un poulailler dans les étoiles. Le jour où mon frère viendra. Nom d'une poule, on a volé le soleil ! Charivari chez les P'tites Poules. Les P'tites Poules, la Bête et le Chevalier.

When the Pond Squad is invited to participate in the Emerald Pond Games, they can’t wait to compete. Playing sports, making new friends, and spending time with Maxwell—Emerald Pond’s cool mallard duck—sounds like a perfect afternoon to Willow. But when Maxwell mysteriously disappears in the middle of a game, the animals know something’s wrong. With all the strange plastic items floating around the pond, Willow is sure Maxwell is in danger. Fortunately, Detective Duck is on the job, solving these puzzling mysteries before they get out of hand and destroy another habitat!

When Taddy the Tadpole goes missing, Detective Duck and her friends in the Pond Squad are on the case. What first seemed like a simple search and rescue mission gets more complicated when her friends find a pipe leaking a strange brown liquid along with a cluster of peculiar blue-green plants that make it difficult for the pond creatures to breathe.

Farmer Brown is going on vacation. He asks his brother, Bob, to take care of the animals. "But keep an eye on Duck. He's trouble." Bob follows the instructions in Farmer Brown's notes exactly. He orders pizza with anchovies for the hens, bathes the pigs with bubble bath, and lets the cows choose a movie. Is that giggling he hears? Giggle, giggle, quack, giggle, moo.

Los tres osos aprenden una valiosa leccion acerca de cerrar la puerta con llave cuando salen a dar un paseo mientras el desayuno se enfria, y vuelven para descubrir que un intruso ha estado en su casa: un intruso con bucles dorados que se ha perdido en el bosque.

A popular author of fiction and nonfiction works for children, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen can often be found in schools sharing her beloved works with children all across the country. With its clever rhymes and cute-creepy storyline, Quackenstein Hatches a Family is the irresistible tale of a very special duck. Quackenstein has no family or friends to play with, until he finds an egg. But when it hatches, it’s not exactly what Quackenstein was expecting!

¡Canta esta historia! No es un secreto que usar canciones para enseñar a los niños habilidades de aprendizaje temprano es divertido y exitoso. Esta canción original se narra y luego se vuelve a cantar. ¡Cuenta mientras los juguetones patitos nadan alrededor del estanque y encuentran a sus amigos! ¿Cuántos encontrarán? “¿Cuántos patos nadan en el estanque? ¿Cuántos patos nadan en el estanque? ¿Cuántos patos nadan en el estanque?

Little Duck learns how to go potty all by himself.

Sound interesting? The authors think so too! Listen to How Many Ducks? and experience the compelling world of animal fiction.

How do you get people to appreciate what is right in front of them? In The Tale of the Mandarin Duck, it takes a mysterious, beautiful duck and a clear-eyed kid to point out the obvious! This audiobook will have listeners of all ages coming back to visit the fantastical interpretation of New York City and its odd ducks - both feathered and human.

Twins Bradley and Brian Pinto are getting ready to celebrate Mother's Day by treating their mom to a show by Hypo, the world's greatest hypnotist. Brian hopes that if Hypo can hypnotize his mom into loving ducks, then she will let him raise ducks in their backyard. But when the Pinto family gets home from the show, the twins' mom starts acting strange. She splashes in the bathtub for hours, she leaves corn kernels all over, and - could it be? - she quacks!