content: A wonderful story with lovely prose. I enjoy reading it and the kids (2, 4 & 6) all love to listen--we read this one multiple times. Wonderful plot of a lazy farmer who gets what he has coming and the animals who plot to take over the farm for their own because they love the poor abused duck. Great illustrations. Ignore the naysayers who rate it negatively because they are fearful of any kind of socialist message corrupting the hearts of their children. If you followed that advice, you would have to throw out a lot of literature and even get rid of major portions of the Bible.