![]() ![]() ) assembles a memorably emotive animal cast, and it’s a lot of fun to watch this hapless and increasingly chagrined group struggle its way toward a totally unnecessary rescue. But Parsons ( Trouble at the Dinosaur Café Jane Clarke is the author of many picture books including the award-winning Gilbert the Great and Stuck in the Mud. “And with a small plop,/ Chick jumped off the mud/ with a skip and hop.” Clarke’s predictable rhymes and word choices (“It’s purr-fectly easy,” says a cat, “I’ll soon pull you free”) may make presiding adults yearn for Jez Alborough’s far punchier mud-as-nemesis tale, Duck in a Truck Other authors: Garry Parsons (Illustrator) Used in Storytime 9/15/16 ( ) 00012188 A little chick becomes stuck in the mud, a whole slew of farm animals try. Early in the morning, down on the farm, a new day was dawning, peaceful and calm. The chain of pullers and pushers grows long enough to require a gatefold spread, at which point the cheeky chick reveals that he was never in any danger: “It’s time I got out,” he announces. ![]() After getting stuck herself trying to free him, she enlists the entire farm population to help her one by one, each gets entrapped in the mud as well. ![]() A hysterical hen is convinced that her beloved chick is meeting his doom in the farmyard’s deep, thick mud. ![]()
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