There’s a nice gentle rhythm to the story’s pattern, and telling it slowly and softly is the way to go, even with toddlers when there’s sometimes a finite limit to their attention spans. Duck,’ said Danny, ‘can you give me something for my mother’s birthday?” Duck pulls up a pillow from the bag, and Danny politely thanks her, but his mother already has a pillow. Then switching from narrator to Danny, it’s: “’Mrs. So Danny sets off to get ideas for his mother “and he met….who did he meet?.: Mrs. My favorite way is to just tell the story with most of Marjorie Flack’s words plus some participation from the kids, with me as narrator and as Danny. This is one of those classic (69 years old!) picture books that adapts very neatly to tell with puppets in different ways. Audience: Toddler (1s and 2s) or Preschool
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