Petunia

Petunia, the goose, learns that possessing knowledge involves more than just carrying a book around under her wing.

Petunia learns, at the expense of her barnyard friends, that just carrying a book does not make you more intelligent. This is a great motivator for early elementary children to get them to pick up a book and read.

I think this is a great book to reader to a little bit older kids (3-5th graders), there is a great message intertwined in the book! Its a great read and I think kids will really like this book. The illustrations are very eye catching and keeps kids interested!

[VIDEO] grainy video with old-fashioned drawings, but the story is still great. A bit on the preachy side, though.

A talking duck helps other animals who see him as wise, however, his foolishness comes out in the end. This book is great as motivation to learn how to read and the importance of reading to gain knowledge and wisdom. Petunia is meant for elementary grades.

Petunia is a great book to get children informed on reading. It shows that just because you have a book you cannot be intelligent unless you take the time to really learn and read it. This informs children that they should work hard to succeed while also bringing humor into the mix.

Petunia, the duck clucks around the barnyard thinking she's wise because she has a book. She soon however realizes that carrying around a book does not make you more intelligent. Its a great motivator to get children to read.I would read this book to elementary grades.

This book would be great to teach the value that books have in helping us to learn.

A silly goose carries around a book she thinks will make her wise. I like all the crazy things Petunia tells the other animals when she pretends to read.

Petunia the goose learn that carrying a book and giving other animalss knowledge isnt so simple. When her advice goes wrong petunia realizes that she needs to learn how to read in order to understand things. This book is meant for elementary school ages.

Petunia was a cute book.

Petunia was walking around the barnyard when she had discovered a book. She picked it up recognizing it but was unable to read it. She had gone around the barnyard pretending that she knew all boosting her ego with everyone coming to her know with the questions. With her providing them with false

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information it had caused the barnyard to be on the fritz. Once it got to the point where everything was messed up that Petunia realized that the important thing was not the book itself but the information inside of it. She had taken some time to learn to read so that way she wouldn't just appear to be smart she really would be.

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