Karen's Ducklings

Karen's Ducklings
series	Baby-Sitters Little Sister
no. in series	26
Author	Ann M. Martin
Tagline	It's hard to say good-bye to a pet.
Publication information
Published on	March 1992
Publisher	Scholastic, Inc. Little Apple
ISBN	0590448307
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Karen's Ducklings is the twenty-sixth book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series.

Back Cover Summary

Karen's class at school is learning all about spring. They are planting flower seeds. They are even writing poems about the season. But more than anything, Karen loves reading about animal babies that are born in the spring.

Then Karen finds a duck outside the classroom. The duck is sitting on a nest of eggs. Karen can't wait for the ducklings to be born. Having baby animals is much more fun than reading about them!

Characters in this book

Karen's Family

• Karen Brewer
• Andrew Brewer
• Little House - Seth Engle, Lisa Engle

Kids

• Ms. Colman's Class: Hannie Papadakis, Nancy Dawes, Bobby Gianelli, Ricky Torres, Pamela Harding, Natalie Springer, Jannie Gilbert, Hank Reubens, Audrey Green, Leslie Morris, Terri Barkan, Tammy Barkan
• Liddie Yuan - student in Mr. Bergers class

Adults

• Ms. Colman
• Mr. Counts - librarian
• Mr. Simpson - man from the custom car company
• Mr. Berger

Places in this book

• Little House
• Stoneybrook Academy

Trivia

• This book is dedicated to "To everyone at Bedford Middle School, especially Pat Brown,... and to the real mother duck who raised her babies in the courtyard."
• Continuity: Karen mentioned Louie Thomas and his funeral on page 68, Crystal Light's death from Karen's Goldfish is also mentioned,
• Inconsistencies: On page 65 Karen misspells famous, which is something she knew how to spell before.
• Pop culture and real life references include: Sesame Street, Make Way for Ducklings (book), The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (book), TV Guide, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (song),
• This is the first time Stoneybrook Academy is established to have a courtyard and the school is arranged around it.
• This is the is one of three books to mention Father's Day within the whole series including Karen's Fishing Trip and Stacey's Lie.
• Karen's class book about Feather is in the school library.
• In chapter 10 Karen is struggling with her subtraction, which comes back in Karen's Big Lie.
• Nancy is the one that saw Feather's eggs start to hatch and Tammy is the one suggesting that they name the ducklings.
• This is the only mention of Carnegie Park (which is outside of Stoneybrook) within the series.