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When, in rhyming text, Duck and his long-suffering friends, Frog, Sheep and Goat, attempt to fly a kite, chaos results. Frog is pulled into the sky as the kite files away and Duck jumps to rescue him.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alborough, Jez
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	La Jolla, Calif. : Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2009, c2008.
Edition:	1st American ed.
Subjects:	Duck (Fictitious character : Alborough) > Juvenile fiction. Domestic animals > Juvenile fiction. Kites > Juvenile fiction. Picture books for children.
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Summary:	When, in rhyming text, Duck and his long-suffering friends, Frog, Sheep and Goat, attempt to fly a kite, chaos results. Frog is pulled into the sky as the kite files away and Duck jumps to rescue him.
Item Description:	"First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2008"--Opp. t.p.
Physical Description:	[30] p. : col. ill. ; 27 x 29 cm.
ISBN:	9781933605890 (hardcover) 1933605898 (hardcover)
Author Notes:	Jez Alborough was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey in 1959. After secondary school, Jez went to Art School in Norwich. After college, he spent two years as an editorial illustration freelancer, before he started writing and illustrating his own children's books. In 1984 his first book, Bare Bear, was published and in 1985 Jez was runner-up in The Mother Goose Award for this book. He has now written and illustrated over thirty books for children Alborough and 500 schoolchildren in London embraced each other for fifteen seconds in a giant "hugathon," raising nearly six thousand dollars for charity and earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in celebration of the publication of his book Hug. (Bowker Author Biography)