The Rhymers - Kick and Quick - by Andrew Buller
Quick is spending all his time with the Vowel Fowl, getting ready for their Duck Day Dance. Poor Kick is left on his own, until he decides what the Duck Dance needs is him joining in…SPLASH! But how welcome will he be? Enjoy this and so many other early learning rhyming alphabet books in The Rhymers' series. These books are a wonderful resource for early years reading development, as well as alphabet and numbers learning through fun stories, rhymes, memorable characters and beautiful colour illustrations. Collect them all!
Quick is spending all his time with the Vowel Fowl, getting ready for their Duck Day Dance. Poor Kick is left on his own, until he decides what the Duck Dance needs is him joining in…SPLASH! But how welcome will he be?
Enjoy this and so many other early learning rhyming alphabet books in The Rhymers' series. These books are a wonderful resource for early years reading development, as well as alphabet and numbers learning through fun stories, rhymes, memorable characters and beautiful colour illustrations. Collect them all!
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<strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Rhymers</strong><br />
TM<br />
<strong>Kick</strong><br />
& <strong>Quick</strong><br />
<strong>Andrew</strong> <strong>Buller</strong><br />
BOOK
Ready<br />
Rhyme<br />
Remember ...<br />
Our red <strong>Rhymers</strong> have said,<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are rhymes to be read.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Rhymers</strong> - Collect them all<br />
Vroom & Zoom Pop & Top Over & Under<br />
Nap & Yap Mime & Rhyme <strong>Kick</strong> & <strong>Quick</strong><br />
Izzy & Whizzy Hairy & Scary Giggle & Jiggle<br />
Flex & X Egg & Leg Crash & Dash<br />
Ace & Bass<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Rhymers</strong>TM<br />
<strong>Kick</strong> & <strong>Quick</strong><br />
Written <strong>and</strong> illustrated <strong>by</strong><br />
<strong>Andrew</strong> <strong>Buller</strong><br />
Where will Mubble Pup pop up?<br />
<strong>Andrew</strong> <strong>Buller</strong> Books<br />
First published in Great Britain in 2015<br />
Text & illustration copyright © 2015 <strong>Andrew</strong> <strong>Buller</strong><br />
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in any form or <strong>by</strong> any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior<br />
permission of the copyright owner.<br />
<strong>The</strong> wise wind whistled...<br />
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“<br />
elcome to Rhyme Isl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
It has a heart of gold.<br />
We twenty six <strong>Rhymers</strong> live here<br />
with stories to be told.<br />
We join to make up every word.<br />
We rhyme <strong>and</strong> sing <strong>and</strong> play.<br />
ick <strong>and</strong><br />
uick are waiting.<br />
What will they do today?”
p quacked the sun<br />
<strong>and</strong> from his alpha-bed<br />
out <strong>Quick</strong> spun.<br />
“<strong>Quick</strong>, quack, quick,<br />
it’s Duck Dance Day today!<br />
Quack, quick, quack,<br />
no time to stop <strong>and</strong> play.<br />
I’ll eat my yummy Quacky-Brek<br />
while flying on my way.”<br />
QQ<br />
Q<br />
Q Q<br />
Q<br />
Q<br />
Q Q Q<br />
Q<br />
Q<br />
Q
i<br />
he rest of the Vowel Fowl<br />
were already out on Rhyme Lake<br />
waiting for <strong>Quick</strong><br />
a<br />
as he flapped<br />
<strong>and</strong> flipped<br />
into the water.<br />
e<br />
u<br />
o<br />
“We’re the dancing Vowel Fowl ducks.<br />
We’re Quack!<br />
Queck!<br />
<strong>Quick</strong>!<br />
Quock!<br />
Quuck!”
ack at <strong>Kick</strong> <strong>Quick</strong> Sticks,<br />
<strong>Kick</strong> woke feeling so sad-sick.<br />
K<br />
K K<br />
Q Q Q<br />
He looked out to Rhyme Lake,<br />
where his Rhymer<br />
was with the Vowel Fowl again.<br />
<strong>Kick</strong> was missing <strong>Quick</strong>.<br />
“We no longer race <strong>and</strong> play.<br />
I’ve been kicking my heels every day.<br />
Every rhyme <strong>and</strong> Rhymer needs two.<br />
Oh what, what, what can I do?”<br />
u
hrough the window<br />
the wise wind whistled <strong>and</strong> blew.<br />
“Be a duck.<br />
Be a duck too!”<br />
<strong>Kick</strong> smiled<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Kick</strong> knew,<br />
knew just what to do…
ick found his<br />
big,<br />
flippy,<br />
flappy<br />
flippers.
e<br />
a<br />
ll was calm on Rhyme Lake<br />
as the Vowel Fowl<br />
practised their dance.<br />
i<br />
o<br />
u<br />
“A new dive, new roll,<br />
new twizzle, new turn,<br />
a new wiggle, new waddle…<br />
Many moves to learn.”<br />
But then…
PLASH!
nto the middle of the dance<br />
leapt <strong>Kick</strong>.<br />
“I’m a duck!<br />
Another duck!<br />
Hey, look at me!<br />
I can kick,<br />
kick,<br />
kick,<br />
as happy as can be!”
ick was having great fun.<br />
His kicks were getting<br />
bigger,<br />
bigger,<br />
bigger!<br />
Rhyme Lake was getting<br />
muddy,<br />
mubble<br />
puddled.
uack,<br />
Queck,<br />
<strong>Quick</strong>,<br />
Quock<br />
<strong>and</strong> Quuck were soaked.<br />
<strong>The</strong> frogs flew far <strong>and</strong> crossly croaked.<br />
“Enough!” cried <strong>Quick</strong>.<br />
“No more splashing <strong>Kick</strong>!<br />
You’re not a duck.<br />
It’s not your day,<br />
so please just...<br />
go away!”
ick stopped.<br />
His heart sank.<br />
He felt sad-sick once more.<br />
<strong>Kick</strong><br />
flipped,<br />
flapped<br />
<strong>and</strong> ran,<br />
as his tears<br />
flapped,<br />
flipped<br />
<strong>and</strong> ran.
he other Vowel Fowl looked at <strong>Quick</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> cried, “Foul!”<br />
a<br />
e<br />
<strong>Quick</strong> knew what he had done.<br />
i<br />
“All I have been is quick, quack, quick,<br />
only thinking of Duck Dance tricks.<br />
I’ve given no time to my Rhymer <strong>Kick</strong>.”<br />
o<br />
u<br />
“Go <strong>and</strong> find your friend now<br />
quick,<br />
quick,<br />
quick!”
ick was sadly<br />
kicking his ball<br />
against Happy Humpty’s<br />
old brick wall.<br />
i<br />
“I’m so, so sorry <strong>Kick</strong>,<br />
for not including you.<br />
We want you in our Duck Dance Day.<br />
What would you like to do?”<br />
<strong>Kick</strong> wiped his tears.<br />
He thought.<br />
He knew…
he <strong>Rhymers</strong> all lined up<br />
in the line that they best know,<br />
ready <strong>and</strong> waiting<br />
for the dazzling Duck Dance Show.
“<br />
e’re here to cheer, to sing <strong>and</strong> shout.<br />
We want to know<br />
who let the ducks out?”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Vowel Fowl glided on to Rhyme Lake.<br />
i<br />
u<br />
“A – E – I – O – U<br />
we’re here to do our dance for you.<br />
Watch us duck, watch us dive.<br />
We’re your favourite Vowel Fowl Five.<br />
o<br />
And now we have<br />
our number six,<br />
ready to show<br />
his Duck Day tricks…”<br />
e<br />
a
he ball dazzled,<br />
dancing<br />
on <strong>Kick</strong>’s flipper feet.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Rhymers</strong> cheered to see his skills.<br />
“Such a Duck Day treat!”<br />
<strong>The</strong>n a flip,<br />
flap,<br />
flick<br />
<strong>and</strong> the ball flies to each duck,<br />
bouncing first to<br />
Quack, Queck, <strong>Quick</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> on to Quock <strong>and</strong> Quuck.
he friends smiled together.<br />
i<br />
u<br />
<strong>Quick</strong> quacked up.<br />
“Thank you <strong>Kick</strong><br />
for your football flicks.<br />
It’s never too late<br />
to teach old ducks new tricks.”
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Vroom & Zoom Pop & Top Over & Under<br />
Nap & Yap Mime & Rhyme <strong>Kick</strong> & <strong>Quick</strong><br />
Izzy & Whizzy Hairy & Scary Giggle & Jiggle<br />
Flex & X Egg & Leg Crash & Dash<br />
Ace & Bass<br />
Which Vowel Fowl<br />
is only here once?<br />
Which one is here<br />
u<br />
o<br />
u<br />
Puzzling <strong>Rhymers</strong><br />
Vroom & Zoom Pop & Top Over & Under<br />
Nap & Yap Mime & Rhyme <strong>Kick</strong> & <strong>Quick</strong><br />
Izzy & Whizzy Hairy & Scary Giggle & Jiggle<br />
Flex & X Egg & Leg Crash & Dash<br />
Ace & Bass<br />
Colour Me <strong>Rhymers</strong><br />
Vroom & Zoom Pop & Top Over & Under<br />
Nap & Yap Mime & Rhyme <strong>Kick</strong> & <strong>Quick</strong><br />
Izzy & Whizzy Hairy & Scary Giggle & Jiggle<br />
Flex & X Egg & Leg Crash & Dash<br />
Ace & Bass<br />
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u<br />
o<br />
a<br />
o<br />
o<br />
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Answer: Only Once = Queck, Most = Quock
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8. Hairy 9. Izzy 10. Jiggle 11. <strong>Kick</strong> 12. Leg 13. Mime 14. Nap<br />
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