![]() Anyone feeling they do not fit in, might gain insight from Quackers. ![]() Quackers is a terrific story for kindergarten and first grade, where kids might come into contact with differences for the first time. Quackers is happy with both groups and with himself. Quackers is comfortable “standing out” with the ducks and “fitting in” with the cats. You don’t have to be the same to be friends or get along. Quackers can teach kids about inclusiveness and fitting in. He becomes an all-inclusive cat, happy to have friends of all types, or in this case, cats and ducks. Quackers comes to terms with who he is-a cat-and where he likes to be-at both the barn and the duck pond, so he spends time at both. ![]() But he misses the duck pond and his duck family. There, Quackers likes the food and enjoys the water-free games. Mittens invites Quackers to the barn, where all the cats live. Mittens looks like him, but laughs when Quackers calls him a duck. Sometimes, Quackers doesn’t feel like he fits in. He likes it there, except for the food and getting wet. ![]() ![]() Quackers lives at the duck pond with all the other ducks. “Quackers loves being among his new friends the cats, but he also misses his duck friends, and so he finds a way to combine the best of both worlds. Then Quackers meets another duck who looks like him (and talks like him, too!)-but he calls himself a cat. And his quacks might sound more like…well, meows, but he lives among ducks, everyone he knows is a duck, and he’s happy. ![]()
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