A humorous board book for teeny tiny hands about family and helping one another. And the fun story of a snow day for children to learn to count. Count along: 1, 2, 3… QUACK!

Mother Duck and 1 ducky, 2 duckies, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 duckies are duckling around in the snow. All of a sudden, QUACK! What happened? 1 ducky, 2 duckies, 3, 4, 5… 6 duckies? Oh no, 1 is missing! Come, come, hurry! QUACK! QUACK! What’s that? Let’s go see. 1 ducky, 2 duckies, 3, 4 duckies? We are missing 2 more! Where are they? In this colourful album, a group of children comes to the rescue of 7 naughty duckies and a very distraught Mother Duck.

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MADALENA MONIZ (Portugal) is an illustrator and graphic designer. She studied Illustration at Ar.Co and at the School of Creative Arts in England. Her book TODAY I FEEL… (Orfeu Negro, 2014) received the Special Mention at the Bologna Ragazzi Awards in the Opera Prima category.