Getting caught in a trash whirlpool, the duck spends years tossed around the ocean, until arriving on a beach shore during an environmental cleanup. As the ducks bobs in the water, it sees pollution all around it: a plastic bag here discarded fishing nets there all creating problems for the animals in the water.
As the duck tells its story, smaller font provides factual information about plastic, its uses, and its the environmental impact. Narrated by one rubber duck, the story is part narrative – the duck’s story – and part nonfiction text. The book is based on a true story that took place in 1992 Ducks Overboard! is about the environmental impact of that accident, and about the pollution crisis facing our oceans. In 2005, Eric Carle wrote Ten Little Rubber Ducks, a story about a shipping carton that leaked dozens of plastic rubber ducks into the sea, and their adventures after landing in the water. Ducks Overboard!: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans, by Markus Motum, (Sept.
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