This adorable book about Duck who wants to be like his friend, Cat, is all about finding your own strengths as well as things you have in common. Duck tries to climb a tree with cat but gets discouraged when she can't. They decide to play something they both can do but Cat ends up in the water and Duck has to rescue him. In the end they are happy to find things in common while still being themselves. The rhyming and cadence make this a fun read aloud but it's the illustrations that really make you love the book. ( )

A clever and creative story about friendship. Curricular connections - how differences can be good. ( )

Charming, gentle story about a duckling who tries to be a cat. ( )

The illustrations are adorable and the story is very sweet. I just wish that the the dialogue is represented by speech bubbles or by quotation marks. ( )