Beaky the Greedy Duck, 1950, (Matt)

Beaky the Greedy Duck is the sixth in the ‘Animal Stories’ series, 497.   As with the other books in this series, it was written by Noel Barr and illustrated by Percy Hickling.

This is a storybook intended to be read to young children.  Most of the stories deal with ‘naughty’ animals and the lessons they learn by the end of the book.  ‘Beaky’ is no exception – although Beaky’s humiliation feels more than a little harsh.  (There’s a happy ending!)

This matt copy has rubbing and minor damage head and foot of spine but is otherwise in very good condition inside and out. Very nice, clean pages. It dates from around 1970 and has the original price of 2/6 revised to 12.5p on the back.