Hit the Ball Duck

Hit the Ball Duck by Jez Alborough. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780545088435.

This brightly illustrated sequel to Duck in the Truck and Duck s Where Can It Be? begins with Duck batting in a pickup game of baseball. When the ball he hits gets stuck in a tall tree he tosses up his bat and a glove to knock it down and soon all three are caught in the branches. At the story s outset little Frog is dismissed as too small for ball with his bigger friends but he surprises Goat Sheep and Duck with a clever play at the story s end.