![]() ![]() Pinkney's artwork is a swan song to the beauty of the pastoral, and his lush images flow across the pages in sweeping vistas and meticulous close-ups. All the while he is growing, transforming, and in the triumphant ending, he finds peace and happiness when his real identity is revealed to himself and to readers. ![]() I am sure he will make his way in the world as well as anybody."" Eventually he runs away, and as the seasons turn, the fledgling has a series of adventures, from a close encounter with a hunting dog to getting trapped in ice. This ""duckling"" is teased unmercifully by his apparent siblings but loved by the mother duck: ""He may not be quite as handsome as the others,"" she says, ""but. Pinkney's (Rikki-Tikki-Tavi) supple, exquisitely detailed watercolors provide a handsome foil to his graceful adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic. ![]()
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