Picture a lazy man who stays in bed to eat bon-bons and read the paper. Now picture a duck who serves, irons, cooks, brings in the sheep, saws wood, picks apples, gathers eggs - and more, much more! Imagine the same dialogue "How goes the work?" "Quack!" interspersed with droll pictures of the exhausted duck and the barnyard witnesses. Begin to realize the humor in an incipient revolt resulting in the come-uppance of a lazy lout. Matchless full-color illustrations in subdued browns, golds and greens convey much of the fresh, funny, patterned story that encourages a quack, moo, baa and cluck from all who hear or read it. (Ages 2-4)

Celebrate twenty-five years of a tale of sweet justice in this anniversary edition.

Farmer Duck is no ordinary duck. He cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm -- all because the farm owner is too lazy to do these things himself. But when Farmer Duck finally collapses from exhaustion, sleepy and weepy and tired, his farmyard friends come to the rescue.