When I'm Not Looking
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
An interactive detective story with fun fill-in-the-blanks and laugh-out-loud details.
Legs loves her pet duck. But Legs isn’t quite sure what her duck gets up to when she’s not looking. Her duck may want Legs to think that she is just sitting around a pond eating bread all day, but Legs knows better than that! She is certain that her duck is more likely dressing like a knight and fighting dragons, starting an army of ducks, building a rocket, and even trying on Leg’s best pants.
Young readers will love joining Legs on her quest to solve the mystery. Using their creativity, imagination, and detective skills, they can help Legs find the truth about what her duck does when she’s not looking.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this irreverent interactive story, self-proclaimed philosopher Legs, whose "big" questions stump even her two moms, attempts to uncover a top-of-mind mystery: what her long-necked pet duck does when unobserved. "She's probably just sitting around in a pond all day eating BREAD," Legs reasons, pointing maniacally; perhaps, though, "that's just what she WANTS you to think!" Bespectacled and clad in a white lab coat and hot pink onesie, light-skinned Legs offers laughably offbeat hypotheses for the fowl's likely doings: "multiplying into fifty ducks," "licking all the eggs," "wearing my best pants." (Fill-in-the-blank spaces invite readers to offer their own hypotheses, and occasional seek-and-find prompts encourage further reader involvement.) Visual and bathroom humor is tucked everywhere in Phillips's jam-packed digital illustrations, which alternate college-ruled activity pages with highly detailed scenes of a home whose cluttered backgrounds evidence Legs's STEM proclivities. The homemade effect lends the story a down-to-earth vibe that emphasizes how much fun it is to be over-the-top silly in the name of science. Ages up to 8.
