Detective Duck: The Case of the Missing Tadpole (Detective Duck #2)

by By Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver

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Book 2 of The Detective Duck Series

Pub Date 15 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 15 Oct 2024

Children's Fiction

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Description

Detective Duck: The Case of the Missing Tadpole is a hysterical, full-color chapter book adventure from New York Times bestselling creators—Emmy Award–winning actor Henry Winkler, children’s book author Lin Oliver, and Caldecott Medal–winning author-illustrator Dan Santat

Willow Feathers McBeaver, aka Detective Duck, is a crime-solving (and very precocious) little duck. She and her animal pals live on Dogwood Pond, a beautiful pond in New England adjacent to Lazy Days, a human campground. Dogwood Pond has always been a pristine spot with clear water, abundant wildlife, and shady willow trees, but now it is encountering puzzling problems—mysteries that arise from human-caused disruptions in nature, such as water pollution, refuse, warming climate, and human encroachment.

When Tad the Tadpole goes missing, Detective Duck and her friends in the Pond Squad are on the case. What first seemed like a simple search and rescue mission gets more complicated when her friends find a pipe leaking a strange brown liquid and a cluster of peculiar blue-green plants that make it difficult for the pond creatures to breathe.

Fortunately, Detective Duck is on the job, solving these puzzling mysteries before they get out of hand and destroy their habitat! The Pond Squad will have to work together to clean up their environment and bring Tad home in this charming new mystery.

Advance Praise

- Detective Duck is at it again. Tad the tadpole is missing, so Detective Duck is on the case. She with the help of many of the Pond Squad go looking for him. While searching they encounter some weird blue/green plant that makes it hard to breathe and some humans. In the end Detective Duck finds Tad, the missing human’s glasses and helps to rid the pond of the harmful plant.

I really enjoyed the first book and this one was also cute. It had a good message. I think readers will enjoy this one too. – Chrissy Casey (Educator) – 4 stars

- Willow the duck is on the case! Willow works to gather all the facts, not just make up stories, to solve the case of the Franny's missing tadpole. It includes information about lifecycles and protecting our waters, with just enough mystery that young readers could solve the case on their own. At moments, I wished it leaned into the jokes -- more Tad the teen -- and mystery instead of just on the surface level. – Danica Clayton ( Librarian) – 3 stars

- The second detective duck mystery finds Willow looking for her friend's missing son. This was very cute! I loved the way it introduced kids to nature with frogs' growth from tadpoles, and environmental contamination. – Christine Piepmeier (Educator) – 4 stars

- The illustrations are adorable. I enjoyed that the story was about a pond and kids can learn about pollution. For young readers, I thought the text was a little long. Toward the end of the book, I wish there were more details about the farm, action steps, and how the pond the water, and the animals would be affected, without it getting too wordy. I enjoyed the story had two storylines to follow to keep the reader interested in the missing tadpole. – Annadel Melendez (Educator) – 4 stars

- I received an electronic ARC from ABRAMS | Amulet Books through NetGalley.

Detective Duck returns and takes on a new case. Tad the Tadpole is missing and Willow enlists help to find him. As her team explores the pond, they discover some strange colored plants and brown water draining from a pipe. They also discover how hard it is to breathe near these things. When a human boy loses his glasses in the water, this starts a chain of events that leads to humans working to clean up the pond and stop the drainage. The friends are glad to be together and know their pond will be saved too. The short chapter format works to share the story. The illustrations bring the characters to life and offer readers a view of pond life. – Pamela Gombert (Librarian) – 3 stars

- Detective Duck is at it again. Tad the tadpole is missing, so Detective Duck is on the case. She with the help of many of the Pond Squad go looking for him. While searching they encounter some...