I Love You Just Enough – Booktalking #kidlit

I Love You Just Enough (The Hazel Ridge Farm Stories)
by Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen (Author) and Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (Illustrator)

Booktalk: After she gets off the bus on the last day of school, Heather discovers a wood duckling alone in the grass.

Snippet:
Hiding in a cluster of lupines was a frightened duckling.

“Now that is quite a treasure you’ve found,” Dad said. “It looks like this little guy has been separated from his family.”

“Will his family come back for him?” Heather asked.
“Or can I take him home and be his family?”

“I don’t know Heather. Taking care of a baby animal is a lot of responsibility,” Dad explained. “You have to keep him safe and wam and fed. You have to teach him how to be a duck–to swim, to hunt for bugs, and how to fly.”

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