In 1992, a shipment of 29,000 bathtub toys fell overboard from a container ship in the Pacific Ocean. Ducks, beavers, turtles, and frogs had bobbed their way to the shores of Alaska, through the Bering Strait, around the northern coast of Greenland, and into the Atlantic Ocean. Based on magnificent illustrations by author/illustrator Eric Carle, this story follows the adventures of 10 rubber ducks as they leave the factory, destined for faraway countries, before being washed overboard from a cargo ship and are swept away in all directions: West, East, North, South, left, right, up, down, this way, and that way...
