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    Funny Frank
    Funny Frank
    Funny Frank
    Ebook194 pages33 minutes

    Funny Frank

    By Dick King-Smith and John Eastwood

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    Being a duck isn’t all it’s quacked up to be.

    But don’t try telling that to Frank—he’s a chicken with a dream. All he thinks about are webbed feet, waterproof feathers, and the cool water of the pond. So when Frank takes a dip and nearly drowns, his mood turns foul. Luckily, he gets a little human help—in the form of a man-made wet suit and a pair of flippers—and soon he’s the speediest bird in the water. And while Frank knows he’s ruffled a few feathers, he doesn’t care—there’s just too much for him to crow about.

    Until a certain young chick catches his eye, that is. . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Children's Books
    Release dateMar 25, 2009
    ISBN9780307525406
    Funny Frank
    Author

    Dick King-Smith

    Dick King-Smith is the author of this season’s Dinosaur Trouble (see page 14). He lives in the west of England.

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    • 5/5
      Frank may have been born a chick but he thinks he is a duck! He watches the ducklings swim in the pond and longs to be with them. The trouble is that chickens don't have waterproof feathers or webbed feet so swimming is something they just can't do!

      Jemima, Frank's human friend and her family figure out an outfit that allows Frank to swim. Something that helps him float and fins for his feet to paddly with. He is finally able to swim with the other ducklings!

      After he grows a bit bigger he starts wondering if he wants to stay like a duck or be the chicken he is supposed to be.

      This is a very short read (I read it while running a load of clothes in the washer) but enjoyable. Dick King-Smith is one of my favourite childrens' lit authors. He never disappoints. This is a good chapter book and also has illustrations.
    • 3/5
      One of the shorter by the author that I've read, and one of the more direct. The theme of 'being true to yourself' is done often in children's literature, but I really like this take on it.

      Frank was true to his desire to go through a stage of hanging out with the waterfowl, but when he grew up, he found that he really is happy being the rooster he was born to be. Nice growth process in a short, heavily illustrated, silly adventure.
    • 5/5
      I like this book because it is about a chicken who wants to swim so day after day he watches the ducks all the time. When he tries to swim he starts to drown. There are these really mean ducks who say " you can't do it " but he tries real hard and i can't tell you the rest you have to find out about it yourself!!!
      ELIZA!

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    Funny Frank - Dick King-Smith

    Chapter One

    Jemima Tabb was a farmer’s daughter. She was eight years old, she had dark hair worn in a pigtail, and she particularly liked chickens, especially baby chicks.

    Whenever one of her father’s hens went broody, Jemima would put a clutch of eggs under the hen—eggs that, with luck, would in twenty-one days’ time hatch out into fluffy little chicks.

    Out in the orchard was a duck pond that was fed by a small stream, and not far from the edge of this pond was where Jemima chose to put her broody coop with its wire run attached. Sitting on eggs must be very boring, she thought, which is why she selected this spot.

    Just you listen to the chuckle of the water as it falls into the pond, and the sounds of the ducks quacking and splashing about, and you’ll find the time will pass quite quickly, she would say to each broody hen as she settled it upon the eggs.

    Three weeks after she had said all this to a hen called Gertie, eight little chicks duly hatched out.

    When the chicks first came out of the coop into the wire run, seven of them scuttled excitedly about on the grass, but the eighth one walked to the end of the run that was nearest to the duck pond and stood there, quite still, listening to the chuckle of the water and the sounds of the ducks quacking and splashing. From then on, he would do this every day, standing and gazing and listening, so that by the time the chicks were a month old, Gertie—the chicks’ mother—was worried and felt she needed to share her worry.

    One fine morning when she and her best friend, Mildred, were scratching about together in the orchard, pecking at worms and beetles and the seeds of flowering grasses, Gertie said to Mildred, You know, I think that one of my chicks is funny.

    Funny, Gertie? clucked Mildred. Do you mean funny ‘ha! ha!’ or funny ‘peculiar’?

    Peculiar, replied Gertie. I’ve suspected it for some time now. The other seven chicks behave quite normally, but this one is different. To begin with, he keeps himself to himself. Look at him now.

    Mildred looked at Gertie’s chicks as they scuttled about in the grass, pecking at anything and everything, and she saw that there were only seven of them doing this. The eighth chick was standing at the edge of the duck pond, looking at the ducks swimming about in it.

    Is that him? she asked.

    Yes, replied Gertie.

    Well, he’s only looking at the ducks.

    "Yes, I know, Mildred. But why is he looking at

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