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K-3Ready-to-Read series.
Illustrated by
Brian Lies.
Lucky Duck narrowly escapes falling down a manhole, being hit by a pie, eating a fly, and other assorted catastrophes. Slapstick humor and Duck's sheer dumb luck in averting disaster will delight new readers, who can turn to the action-packed illustrations for assistance decoding appropriately repetitive words and phrases in the rhyming text.