John Philip Duck.(Video Recording Review)

John Philip Duck. videocassette. color. 23:15 min. Spoken Arts. 2005. ISBN 0-8045-9706-5. $49.95; also avail. cassette with hardcover book, ISBN 0-8045-6932-0: $27.95; CD with hardcover book, ISBN 0-8045-4127-2. $29.95.

K-Gr 4--This iconographic version of Patricia Polacco's book (Philomel, 2004) is introduced and narrated by the author. It opens with live footage of Polacco standing before the fountain of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. She explains that the ducks that swim in the fountain inspired her to write this original story about how they got there. It all begins with Edward Pembroke, an African-American boy who lives on a farm, but works in a busy hotel …