By: Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
International Literature
Flack, M., & Wiese, K. (1933). The story about ping. New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc.
This is a picture book about a duck named Ping. Ping lived on a boat with his mother, father and other family members. Ping wondered off one day and did not get back on the boat. The next day he awoke in an unfamiliar place without any of his family members. He was lost on the Yangtze river. Ping was captured by a Chinese family who bribed him with a rice cake. Luckily for Ping a little boy set him free and he was reunited with his family.
This is a beautifully illustrated book and would be a perfect book for third grade students. I would use this book in my future classroom as a read aloud and then as the introduction to a writing activity. I would open this question to the students, "How would you feel if you were separated from your family?"
Favorite Quote: "Then at last Ping was back with his mother and his father and his two sisters and his three brothers and eleven aunts and seven uncles and forty-two cousins."
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