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  Duck! Rabbit!

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld

  Duck! Rabbit!

  Hey, look! A duck!

  That’s not a duck.

  That’s a rabbit!

  Are you kidding me?

  It’s totally a duck.

  It’s for sure a rabbit.

  See, there’s his bill.

  What are you talking about?

  Those are ears, silly.

  It’s a duck. And he’s about to eat a piece of bread.

  It’s a rabbit. And he’s about to eat a carrot.

  Wait. Listen. Did you hear that?

  I heard duck sounds.

  That’s funny. I distinctly heard rabbit sounds.

  Now the duck is wading through the swamp.

  No, the rabbit is hiding in the grass.

  There, see? It’s flying!

  Flying? It’s hopping!

  No, the rabbit is so hot, he’s cooling off his ears.

  Look, the duck is so hot, he’s getting a drink.

  Here, look at the duck through my binoculars.

  Sorry, still a rabbit.

  Here, ducky ducky!

  Here, you cute little rabbit!

  Oh great, you scared him away.

  I didn’t scare him away. You scared him away.

  You know, maybe you were right. Maybe it was a rabbit.

  Thing is, now I’m actually thinking it was a duck.

  Well, anyway…now what do you want to do?

  I don’t know. What do you want to do?

  Hey, look! An anteater!

  That’s no anteater. That’s a brachiosaurus!

  About the Author

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal writes books for both children and grown-ups. For example, she is the author of the series Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink; of the picture book Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons; and of the memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. Short films, animated versions of her children’s books, and other fun distractions await you at whoisamy.wordpress.com.

  Tom Lichtenheld is an author and illustrator, depending which way you look at him. He doodled his way through school then worked as a sign painter, set designer, printer, and advertising art director (not all at once). These days, he loves nothing more than making up stories and drawing silly pictures for books. You can see his books and get a glimpse of how he creates them on his Web site, tomlichtenheld.com.

  Praise

  (It’s not the end! There’s still all this stuff!)

  Thanks to Jan for her unwavering support.

  Thanks to Eric Rohmann and Larry Day for their artful camaraderie.—T. L.

  Duck…duck…duck…GOOSE! I pick Charise Mericle Harper.—A. K. R.

  And thanks to Marshall Ross for putting us in the same room.—T. L. and A. K. R.

  Copyright

  Text © 2009 by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.

  Illustrations © 2009 by Tom Lichtenheld.

  All rights reserved.

  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Rosenthal, Amy Krouse.

  Duck! Rabbit! / [text by] Amy Krouse Rosenthal ; [illustrations by] Tom Lichtenheld.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Two unseen characters argue about whether the creature they are looking at is a rabbit or a duck.

  eISBN: 978-0-8118-6865-5

  [1. Animals—Identification—Fiction.] I. Lichtenheld, Tom, ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.R719445Duc 2009

  [E]—dc22

  2008028102

  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  Chronicle Books LLC

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  San Francisco, California 94107

  www.chroniclekids.com

 

 

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