In this poignant and funny story, illustrated with strikingly designed collages, Eric Carle takes readers on an exciting voyage of discovery. Small readers and listeners will empathize with the little duck's plight-and will rejoice at the heartwarming surprise ending. But as the sun sets, the 10th little rubber duck is left all alone, bobbing helplessly on the big wide sea. One drifts west, where a friendly dolphin jumps over it. The ducks are swept away in various directions. "Ducks overboard!" shouts the captain, as a giant wave washes a box of 10 little rubber ducks off his cargo ship and into the sea. Science Friday has a Great Pacific Garbage Patch teacher’s guide Better Lesson and Siemens STEM Day have free downloadable lesson plans and activities.Ahoy! All aboard for a world of learning and fun! Great for storytime, great for STEM and Earth Day stories, great to read before a beach or neighborhood cleanup project. Back matter includes more about the 1992 shipping container that spilled ducks and other plastic toys into the ocean how trash moves along ocean currents facts about plastic, and how kids can help protect the waters. The message is clear: plastic is choking our oceans.
The mixed media artwork is bright and colorful, and creates strong statements with its imagery: hundreds of dots in the ocean look like the shape of a continent, until one realizes that it’s a depiction of the shipping containers that get lost in the sea every year a sea turtle swims underwater, dragging a fishing net wrapped around its neck a spread illustrates the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Getting caught in a trash whirlpool, the duck spends years tossed around the ocean, until arriving on a beach shore during an environmental cleanup. As the ducks bobs in the water, it sees pollution all around it: a plastic bag here discarded fishing nets there all creating problems for the animals in the water.
As the duck tells its story, smaller font provides factual information about plastic, its uses, and its the environmental impact. Narrated by one rubber duck, the story is part narrative – the duck’s story – and part nonfiction text. The book is based on a true story that took place in 1992 Ducks Overboard! is about the environmental impact of that accident, and about the pollution crisis facing our oceans. In 2005, Eric Carle wrote Ten Little Rubber Ducks, a story about a shipping carton that leaked dozens of plastic rubber ducks into the sea, and their adventures after landing in the water.
Ducks Overboard!: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans, by Markus Motum, (Sept.
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