This book was very humorous. A young moose gets confused and thinks he’s a duck, so he follows around a flock of ducks and tries to imitate them; he even speaks his own moose language, which confuses the ducks. Obviously he fails miserably and gets discouraged. Yet in the end realizes that he’s a moose. My favorite feature of the book was the “wacky words”, that the author Claflin uses such as “fambly” for family or “distremely” for extremely because apparently moose’s’ have a language of their own. At the end of the book there is a moose to English dictionary, for translation purposes. This would be a wonderful book to teach a lesson on context clues and how to figure out the meaning of unknown words. I would definitely recommend it to teachers trying to teach these concepts to struggling elementary and ESL students.
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