Hit the ball Duck

Jez Alborough

Kane/Miller, 2006 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages

Duck and his friends go out with a bat, a ball, and a glove to play. Duck hits the ball, but where does it fall? Nothing turns out quite as planned in this ball game. Full color.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Hit the ball Duck; Duck in the truck
• Author: Jez Alborough
• Illustrated by: Jez Alborough
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Kane/Miller, 2006
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Aug 1, 2011
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Animals; Animals/ Fiction; Baseball; Baseball/ Fiction; Children's stories; Ducks; Ducks/ Fiction; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Ducks, Geese, etc; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General; Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Friendship; Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Baseball & Softball; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History; Stories in rhyme