Ruby Flew Too! - Jonathan Emmett

My wife and I have a selection of books that we use for our 4-year-old son at bedtime. One of them is this charming book titled 'Ruby Flew Too.' Our son must have heard the story hundreds of times, yet he still lies there concentrating and smiling at what is a lovely story. 'Ruby Flew Too' is written by Jonathan Emmett, and illustrated by Rebecca Harry. The story starts with a mother duck and a father duck sitting on a nest, waiting for their 5 eggs to hatch. Four of the eggs hatch at the same time, and the father duck wonders if it will ever hatch. They name the four hatched eggs Rory, Rufus, Rebecca and Rosie. When the fifth egg hatches, they call it Ruby. ...  Read the complete review

This is a really cute picture book for little children. It is written by Jonathan Emmett and illustrated by Rebecca Harry, telling the story of a family of ducks. The story starts with Mother Duck and Father Duck tending their nest where there are five eggs ready to hatch. Mother Duck sits on the nest all day and all night through all kinds of weather looking after the five eggs and waiting for them to hatch. One day the eggs start to hatch...one, two, three, four of them and soon there are... one, two, three, four little ducklings all cuddly and feathery! Mother Duck and Father Duck decide to call their little ducklings Rufus, Rory, Rosie and ...  Read the complete review

~ Ruby Flew Too ~ This is a lovely tale about a Mother duck and Father duck, Mother had laid five eggs and was sitting on them through day and night, and all sorts of weather, when one day they all began to hatch, It counts through one, two, three four eggs hatched, but the fifth hatches much later than the rest, The little chicks are called Rufus, Rory, Rosie and Rebecca, and when the last one is born she is named Ruby because she is much smaller and precious. The other chicks all do things much faster than Ruby, like eating, and swimming and each time the Father duck said, Will she ever eat?, will she ever fly? And Mother duck always says ...  Read the complete review