The Story About Ping

I see why the story of Ping is still around. It’s getting to be 100 years now, published in 1933. It was before the Caldecott award started. It’s an old book. It’s a very lovely book. Ping lives with his large duck family on a boat just for ducks. The owner of the little boat will put up a ramp and l......more

I don’t normally review children’s books but I just reread this one with my nephew and yikes! I liked it as a kid but I remember it was nothing special. Reading it as an adult was a whole new experience. The book is teaching kids to be on time, but it’s saying that kids will get physical punishment......more

This book is a century old and teaches some very valuable lessons. As we read about Ping the duck, we learn empathy, kindness, understanding, and consequences to actions. Another thing my children learned was that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. Our family read this book because it i......more

I actually first heard about his story years ago on a Weston Woods video. “The Story of Ping” is a Chinese story by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese about how a young and beautiful duck named Ping gets lost in the Yangtze River after he tries to avoid punishment of being late. “The Story of Ping” is a......more

I completely forgot about this book until I saw it at Goodreads. But I remember liking it a lot as a kid. It was first read to me and when I learned to read, I read it to myself as well. I was fascinated by the foreign setting. I don’t have a copy now; I assume at this point I’d hate the part about......more