num_pages: 32
description: To coincide with our HC publication of This Way, Ruby!, here's the sweet little duckling's picture book debut--now in paperback.Mother Duck and Father Duck are worried about Ruby. As the littlest duckling of the family, she learns to eat and swim long after her four sisters and brothers. Father Duck frets that Ruby will never catch up, but Mother Duck calmly reassures him that Ruby will flourish -- "in her own time."Readers of all ages who have ever felt like the biggest or the littlest, the slowest or the fastest, or somewhere in between, will root for Ruby as she takes wing toward independence, at last. Once you've met Ruby, you'll never forget her!
language: English
title: Ruby in Her Own Time
titlecomplete: Ruby in Her Own Time
characters: Ruby
genres: Fiction, Family, Storytime, Animals, Picture Books, School, Childrens
ratings_count: 300
series: Ruby
awards: name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Primary
publisher: Scholastic Inc.