HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2000.
Hardcover edition, 32 pages, ISBN 0-06-028685-7.
Duck's truck becomes stuck in the muck in this funny, rhyming story. Sheep, frog and goat join forces to push, all the while becoming more and more covered in slurpy, squelchy, sucking, mud. Inventing an alternate method of extraction, goat finally frees the truck by means of a tow rope attached to a boat. Duck blithely drives off leaving his friends "STUCK IN THE MUCK!" Alborough's paneled illustrations occasionally run off the page giving the reader a sense of being "in" the story. The body language of the sheep tiptoeing through the mud, and the alternately perplexed, angry, and expressive exertions of the animals add realism and humor to the simple plot line.
Great for toddler storytime. Large close-up pictures, simple rhyming text with engaging descriptors. There is a 16 page boardbook version available for the individual very small child.
Rhyming words and onomatopoeia increase phonological awareness. The sequential nature of the action in the paneled pictures fosters left to right awareness.
One of Junior Magazine's Top 100 Picture Books of All Time.
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