Angus and the Ducks

This story has such beautiful illustrations, alternating between colour pages and black and white, we find Angus, a little black Scottish terrier who is full of fun and inquisitiveness. The illustrations are accurately observed, Marjorie Flack has perfectly reproduced this little dog's expressions.......more

Originally published in 1930, Angus and the Ducks is the first of several picture-books devoted to the doings of its eponymous canine hero, an energetic, curious Scottish terrier puppy, and is a sheer delight to read. The simple text follows Angus as he slips out one day - the door between INDOORS a......more

This book is a perfect representation of how terriers interact with their world. Puppy terriers in particular. Having a terrier puppy may be making me partial to this book but so it goes. Anyway, I think the writing and the pictures are a great match. There is an interesting use of capitalization to......more

This use to be in the preschool film packet (live action if I remember) way back when I started as a Children's librarian. I don't think I ever used it as a book in story time because of that and unfortunately there are only a couple left in the system now, one with 91 circs.......more

Moral of the story: don't mess with waterfowl.......more