Quick Quack Quentin

By Author / Illustrator

Kes Gray, Jim Field

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

Publisher

Hachette Children's Group

ISBN

9781444919561

Format

Hardback

Published

11-02-2016

Synopsis

From the creators of the bestselling Oi Frog! Frog comes an hilarious tale about one duck's quest for a missing vowel!

Quentin was a duck with a very quick quack.
'QUCK!' said Quentin. 'What's wrong with me?'

Quentin's quack has lost its A. Do any of the other animals have one to spare? Not likely! APES don't want to be PES. SNAKES don't want to be SNKES. PANDAS don't want to be PNDAS or even PANDS. Will Quentin be stuck with a very quick QUCK?!

Brilliant for reading out loud and teaching children about vowels and animals.

Praise for Oi, Frog! also by Kes Gray and Jim Field: 'An absolute treat.' - Daily Mail

Kes Gray is a bestselling, multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different.

Jim Field is a lead-driven, pencil-pushing, 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan. He is also a hugely talented illustrator and animation director. His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

Oi Frog!, Oi Dog! and Oi Cat! are a top ten bestselling series. Oi Dog! was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the British Book Awards in 2016, amongst others. It also won the Teach Primary New Children's Fiction Award, MadeForMums Award, Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award and Portsmouth Picture Book Award. Oi Cat! was the Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Season and Oi Goat! is a World Book Day book in 2018.

Reviews

I fell in love with this book immediately, both as a teacher and as a mother. From the same pairing that brought us 'Oi Frog', Quick Quack Quentin tells the humourous tale of Quentin the duck who has a quick 'quck' after he loses the A out of his quack. The story shows Quentin searching through all his animal friends, borrowing letters from their names to improve his quack; he gets a quock, queck, quuck and a quoock in his search for an A to fix his quack. As a mum, I loved reading this to my two children and they laughed at the silly names the animals were left with after their A was borrowed. As a Year 1 teacher, preparing five and six year olds for the phonics screening test, this book is inspired. My son is in Year 1 and I had him sounding out the animal named using the phonemes left. Great way to practice those silly pseudo words we've got to prepare for. In class I used the book to have a play with words - changing vowels and making silly words instead. The only thing I would say is that I wish the animal words were in small case letters rather than capitals, but this is such a tiny thing in what is a really fantastic book. A must buy for all phonics teachers!!!! Picture book / Ages 5+ / Reviewed by Marie Berry, teacher.