He has all sorts of adventures, narrowly escapes becoming a duck dinner, and with much relief, returns home to his parents and siblings and aunts and uncles and forty-two cousins. One day, Ping realizes that he’ll be the last one in, and runs away to avoid getting spanked. Every morning, the ducks leave the boat to look for food, and when they return at dusk, the last duck gets spanked by the boatman. Ping is a little yellow duck who lives on a “wise-eyed boat” on the Yangtze river with his family and the boatman. I learned about the picture book The Story About Ping via its famed review (over 10,000 helpful votes and counting), back when I didn’t have a child and parenting seemed an undesirable, incomprehensible, unimaginable task reserved for Other People.
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