The Story of a Little Duck (code no. M3482)

(Merrill Publishing Co.) THE STORY OF A LITTLE DUCK (CODE NO. M3482) by Dorothy Sherrill. Chicago, Illinois: The Merrill Publishing Co., (1934). 16mo - 6-3/4" x 5-1/4". Yellow paper covered boards with titles printed in black and blue, and a cute drawing of a little duckling printed in black, blue, orange and yellow to both front and back covers with only minute incidental touches of rubbing to spine ends and corners, and scattered light spotting to back cover for what otherwise is an amazing, fresh as just printed, as new copy of the book. [42] pp. This was the third title published by the Merrill Publishing Co. The story, which is written for very young children, follows the adventures of a little duckling that ran away from home because nothing exciting ever happened in the little pond his family called home. He found out that was not necessarily a bad thing after all. Each page of text is illustrated with a full page color drawing on the facing page; internally the book is in as ne